Virtualbox

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Enable Virtualization with Virtualbox

Virtualization is a process of creating virtual OS, Hardware and Network, is one of the most sought technology of these days. We will be discussing on how to install and configure virtualization in detail.

Our CentOS Minimal server is a headless server. Lets prepare it to host virtual machines that is accessible over HTTP by installing following packages.

# yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' SDL kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms

Installing Virtualbox Extension Pack

Create a user ‘vbox‘ to manage virtualbox and add it to group vboxusers.

# adduser vbox # passwd vobx # usermod -G vboxusers vbox

Install HTTPD server.

# yum install httpd

Install PHP (with soap extension).

# yum install php php-devel php-common php-soap php-gd

Download PHP virtualBox.

# wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpvirtualbox/files/phpvirtualbox-4.3-1.zip

Extract the zip and copy the extracted folder to HTTP working directory.

# unzip phpvirtualbox-4.*.zip # cp phpvirtualbox-4.3-1 -R /var/www/html

Next, rename file /var/www/html/phpvirtualbox/config.php-example to var/www/html/phpvirtualbox/config.php.

# mv config.php.example config.php

Open the configuration file to edit and add ‘username‘ and ‘password‘ we just created in the above step.

# vi config.php

Finally, restart VirtualBox and HTTP server.

# service vbox-service restart # service httpd restart

Now forward the port and access it on a headed server.

http://192.168.0.15/phpvirtualbox-4.3-1/

PHP Virtualbox Dashboard

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