VirtualBox 4.0 on SME Server v8 beta 6

1. Setup SME Server v8 beta 6.
2. Do a yum update.

yum update<br />
signal-event post-upgrade<br />
signal-event reboot

3. Check your current kernel.

uname -r

4. Install kernel-devel to get the latest development tree (2.6.18-238.12.1.el5PAE-i686).
Use this command only if you have PAE kernel installed:


yum install kernel-PAE-devel

      Otherwise,

yum install kernel-devel




5. Create a symbolic link

ln –s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-238.12.1.el5PAE-i686 /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

or

ln –s /usr/src/kernels/’uname  –r’-i686 /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

6. Install DKMS

wget http://packages.sw.be/dkms/dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm<br/>
yum install  dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el5.rf.noarch.rpm

7. Enable fopen on php.ini (line 65) located on /etc/

allow_url_fopen = On

8. Install VirtualBox v4.0 (At the time of writing, the latest version is v4.0.8).

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.8/VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_rhel5-1.i386.rpm<br/>
yum install VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.8_71778_rhel5-1.i386.rpm -y

Note: you will get an error message, which you can ignore.

9. Setup VirtualBox as a service so it starts automatically after a reboot by copying the vboxwebsrv from rc5.d to rc7.d.

cp /etc/rc5.d/S30vboxdrv /etc/rc7.d/.<br/>
cp /etc/rc5.d/S35vboxballoonctrl /etc/rc7.d/.<br/>
cp /etc/rc5.d/S35vboxweb-service /etc/rc7.d/.

10. Create a vbox.cfg file on your /etc/vbox/.

    nano /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg

          vbox.cfg should have this content.
    

    VBOXWEB_USER='root'<br/>
    VBOXWEB_HOST=127.0.0.1<br/>
    VBOXWEB_PORT=18083<br/>

    Note: Without the vbox.cfg, vbox services on your rc7.d folder will not start.

11. Before we install phpVirtualBox, make sure you install SOAP first.

yum install php-soap

12. Login to the server-manager page and create an ibay for phpvbox. Don’t forget to assign a password.