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Installing X and virtualbox
cdburgess75:
weust,
While any VM started from the VirtualBox Manager is capable of running virtual machines remotely, it is not convenient to have to run the full-fledged GUI if you never want to have VMs displayed locally in the first place. In particular, if you are running server hardware whose only purpose is to host VMs, and all your VMs are supposed to run remotely over VRDP, then it is pointless to have a graphical user interface on the server at all -- especially since, on a Linux/BSD/Solaris host, the VirtualBox manager comes with dependencies on the Qt and SDL libraries. This is inconvenient if you would rather not have the X Window system on your server at all.
VirtualBox therefore comes with yet another front-end called VBoxHeadless, which produces no visible output on the host at all, but instead only delivers VRDP data. This front-end has no dependencies on the X Window system on Linux/BSD/Solaris hosts.
You can call it whatever you like weust. This firewall not in production dude, relax!
weust:
I am relaxed. Messing with your head does that :D
The way you describe virtual box sounds like it's a pile of crap which you can even remotely manage.
franco:
Guys, keep it cool. :)
cdburgess75:
I copied from their documentation. Tell me about it though! I can't really find another hypervisor on FreeBSD that I am comfortable with yet. Virtualbox works though, it's simple to use. I don't use it for production systems though. I have been watching bhyve progress and it looks promising. But that's beyond the scope of this. My goal is to run a hypervisor on CLI only (no X). Just jumping through the hoops of learning. Stop messing with me, I'm delicate :)
franco:
I've tested bhyve a couple of times and even managed to start an operational OPNsense inside it. Hopefully, we'll use it for testing/QA mid-term, but I can also see use cases for adding a GUI package for managing virtual instances / VMs in OPNsense itself.
FYI, there is a tool called iohyve https://github.com/pr1ntf/iohyve which wraps around bhyve (and ZFS) to make it simple to use...
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