Difference between revisions of "VirtualBox 4.0 on SME Server v8 beta 6"
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At this point, VirtualBox should now be configured and running correctly. To check this, we will now log into the ibay we created for phpVirtualBox and attempt to create a new virtual machine.If you encounter problems, please recheck that you have setup VirtualBox as a service so it starts automatically after a reboot, and that your vbox.cfg file is configured correctly. | At this point, VirtualBox should now be configured and running correctly. To check this, we will now log into the ibay we created for phpVirtualBox and attempt to create a new virtual machine.If you encounter problems, please recheck that you have setup VirtualBox as a service so it starts automatically after a reboot, and that your vbox.cfg file is configured correctly. | ||
− | <li>Go to http://yourdomain.com/phpvbox and connect to the phpVirtualBox web application.</li> | + | <li>Open a terminal window to the SME Server and create a directory to store the virtual machine images.</li> |
− | + | <pre>mkdir -p /var/lib/VirtualBox/VMs</pre> | |
+ | <li>Using a web browser, Go to http://yourdomain.com/phpvbox and connect to the phpVirtualBox web application.</li> | ||
+ | <pre>From the menu provided, go to select File->Preferences. | ||
Select the "General" tab. | Select the "General" tab. | ||
Change the Default Machine Folder: to /var/lib/VirtualBox/VMs</pre> | Change the Default Machine Folder: to /var/lib/VirtualBox/VMs</pre> | ||
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===Creating a Virtual Machine=== | ===Creating a Virtual Machine=== | ||
− | <li> | + | <li>Using a web browser, go to http://yourdomain.com/phpvbox to create your virtual machine. |
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<li>Create a new virtual machine (e.g. vmXP)</li> | <li>Create a new virtual machine (e.g. vmXP)</li> |
Revision as of 05:30, 12 September 2011
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Description
Below are instructions on how to install VirtualBox version 4 on a fresh install SME Server v8 beta 6 and higher. Plus installing and configuring phpVirtualBox to control (create, edit, remove) your virtual machine on its web interface. In addition, scripts to automatically start the vbox service and the virtual machines in case of power failure can be found at the end of this article.
Requirements
Computer with SME server version 8 beta 6 and higher installed.
Installation
- Setup SME Server v8 beta 6.
- Do a yum update.
- If any updates were applied, update and reboot the server.
- Check your current kernel.
- Install kernel-devel to get the latest development tree. Use this command only if you have a PAE kernel installed:
- Check if the compiler (GCC) is installed. If not installed, install it.
- Update SME, and reboot again
- Create a symbolic link
- Check that the symbolic link was properly created by doing a directory listing.
- Install the Fedora Epel repository using the instructions here.
- Install Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS)
- Install the VirtualBox repository using the instructions here.
- Install VirtualBox (At the time of the last update to these instructions, the latest version was v4.1-2).
- Review the VirtualBox installation log to ensure that the installation was successful.
- Remove the compiler install (for security best practices)
- Update SME, and reboot again
- Setup VirtualBox as a service so it starts automatically after a reboot.
- Create a vbox.cfg file on your /etc/vbox/.
- Login to the server-manager page and create an ibay for phpvbox. For instructions on how to create and configure an ibay, please see the SME Server Administration manual. After creating the ibay, do not forget to assign a password.
- Before we install phpVirtualBox, make sure you install SOAP first
- Install phpVirtualBox
- Create a tmp folder inside the /phpvbox/html folder.
- Create a config file using the example file provided.
- Open config.php (located on your /phpvbox/html/ folder). Uncomment some lines (by removing the '#' at the beginning of the line).
- Disable authentication of vboxwebsrv (this is not recommended, but at this stage, this is the only setup that works). Login to the server’s SSH and type this command.
- Install VirtualBox extension pack to enable support for USB 2.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards. Please install the extension pack with the same version as your installed version of VirtualBox! You can find the extension packs here. The following commands download and install the extension pack for VirtualBox 4.1.2.
- Update SME, and reboot again
- Open a terminal window to the SME Server and create a directory to store the virtual machine images.
- Using a web browser, Go to http://yourdomain.com/phpvbox and connect to the phpVirtualBox web application.
- Using a web browser, go to http://yourdomain.com/phpvbox to create your virtual machine.
- Create a new virtual machine (e.g. vmXP)
- Enable network card (either NAT or Bridged) so you can connect to your new VM console.
- Open an RDP client (run->mstsc) then type your server’s domain name (e.g. mydomain.com) or ip address e.g. (192.168.100.1)
- Download VirtualBox Guest Addition from here http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.8/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.0.8.iso and install it to your newly setup VM.
yum update
signal-event post-upgrade signal-event reboot
uname -r
yum install kernel-PAE-devel kernel-headers
Otherwise,
yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers
yum install gcc
signal-event post-upgrade signal-event reboot
NOTE: Be careful if you cut-and-paste the command below. In some terminal windows, from some browsers, the parts of the command in bold font do not paste correctly. Pay particular attention to the dashes (-) and the backticks (`). There aren't any single quote marks in the command below - they are all supposed to be backticks.
ln –s /usr/src/kernels/`uname –r`-`uname-m` /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
NOTE: Be careful if you cut-and-paste the command below. In some terminal windows, from some browsers, the parts of the command in bold font do not paste correctly. Pay particular attention to the dashes (-) and the backticks (`). There aren't any single quote marks in the command below - they are all supposed to be backticks.
ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
yum install --enablerepo=epel dkms
yum install --enablerepo=virtualbox VirtualBox-4.1
tail /var/log/vbox-install.log
rpm -e gcc
signal-event post-upgrade signal-event reboot
cp /etc/rc5.d/S30vboxdrv /etc/rc7.d/. cp /etc/rc5.d/S35vboxballoonctrl-service /etc/rc7.d/. cp /etc/rc5.d/S35vboxweb-service /etc/rc7.d/.
nano /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg
vbox.cfg should have this content.
VBOXWEB_USER='root' VBOXWEB_HOST=127.0.0.1 VBOXWEB_PORT=18083
Note: Without the vbox.cfg, vbox services on your rc7.d folder will not start.
yum install php-soap
cd /tmp wget `wget -q -O - http://phpvirtualbox.googlecode.com/files/LATEST.txt` -O phpvirtualbox-latest.zip unzip phpvirtualbox-latest.zip
Note: at the time of the last update, the latest version was 4.1-2. Please adjust the following for later versions.
cd phpvirtualbox-4.1-2 cp –R * /home/e-smith/files/ibays/phpvbox/html
cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/phpvbox/html mkdir tmp chmod 777 tmp/
cp config.php-example config.php
nano /home/e-smith/files/ibays/phpvbox/html/config.php
/* SOAP URL of vboxwebsrv (not phpVirtualBox's URL) */ var $location = 'http://127.0.0.1:18083/';
// Disable authentication var $noAuth = true;
Adjust the consoleHost ip address to an unused static ip address on your internal network
// Host / ip to use for console connections //var $consoleHost = '192.168.100.1';
/* Enable advanced configuration items (normally hidden in the VirtualBox GUI) * Note that some of these items may not be translated to languages other than $ */ var $enableAdvancedConfig = true;
// Authentication library. //var $authLib = 'Builtin';
// Allow VDE network configuration. This must be supported by the underlying VirtualBox installation! var $enableVDE = true;
Change the tmp location as per below.
// Path var $cachePath = '../tmp';
vboxmanage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.2/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.2-73507.vbox-extpack vboxmanage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.2-73507.vbox-extpack
signal-event post-upgrade signal-event reboot
At this point, VirtualBox should now be configured and running correctly. To check this, we will now log into the ibay we created for phpVirtualBox and attempt to create a new virtual machine.If you encounter problems, please recheck that you have setup VirtualBox as a service so it starts automatically after a reboot, and that your vbox.cfg file is configured correctly.
mkdir -p /var/lib/VirtualBox/VMs
From the menu provided, go to select File->Preferences. Select the "General" tab. Change the Default Machine Folder: to /var/lib/VirtualBox/VMs
Creating a Virtual Machine
Automatically Start Virtual Machine
- Edit your vbox file on /etc/sysconfig/
- Edit your vbox file located on /etc/init.d/
nano /etc/sysconfig/vbox
vbox code should look like this:
# Virtual box machines to autostart # Example to start 2 machines # VBOX_AUTOSTART = "MachineName1 MachineName2" VBOX_AUTOSTART="vmXP"
#!/bin/sh # # chkconfig: - 91 35 # description: Starts and stops vbox autostart VMs. ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: vbox # Required-Start: $network $named $vboxdrv # Required-Stop: $network $named # Default-Start: # Default-Stop: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 # Short-Description: Autostart some Virtual Box VMs # Description: Autostart some Virtual Box VMs that are mentioned in /etc/sysconfig/vbox file # Written by Alex Amiryan ### END INIT INFO . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions MANAGE_CMD=vboxmanage [ -r /etc/sysconfig/vbox ] && . /etc/sysconfig/vbox prog=$"Virtual Box Machines" start() { echo -n $"Starting $prog: " RETVAL=0 for vbox_name in ${VBOX_AUTOSTART} do SERVS=1 echo -n "${vbox_name} " daemon $MANAGE_CMD startvm "${vbox_name}" -type headless >/dev/null 2>&1 RETVAL=$? [ "$RETVAL" -eq 0 ] || break done if [ -z "$SERVS" ]; then echo -n "no virtual machines configured " failure RETVAL=6 else if [ "$RETVAL" -eq 0 ]; then success $"vbox startup" touch /var/lock/subsys/vbox else failure $"vbox start" fi fi echo return "$RETVAL" } stop() { echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: " for vbox_name in ${VBOX_AUTOSTART} do echo -n "${vbox_name} " runuser root -c "$MANAGE_CMD -q controlvm "${vbox_name}" savestate" >/dev/null 2>&1 done RETVAL=$? [ "$RETVAL" -eq 0 ] && success $"vbox shutdown" || \ failure $"vbox shutdown" echo< [ "$RETVAL" -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/vbox return "$RETVAL" } status() { for vbox_name in ${VBOX_AUTOSTART} do echo -n "${vbox_name} " $MANAGE_CMD showvminfo "${vbox_name}"|grep "^State:\s*.*$" done } case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart|force-reload) stop start ;; status) status ;; *) echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}" >&2 exit 3 ;; esac