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===Maintainer===
 
===Maintainer===
 
[http://www.compsos.com.au CompSOS]
 
[http://www.compsos.com.au CompSOS]
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<ol>
 
<ol>
 
   <li>SME Server Release 8.0</li>
 
   <li>SME Server Release 8.0</li>
   <li>VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.12_84980_el5-1</li>
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   <li>VirtualBox-4.3</li>
 
   <li>Kernel is 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5</li>
 
   <li>Kernel is 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5</li>
 
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       <pre>yum upgrade</pre>
 
       <pre>yum upgrade</pre>
 
   <li value="3"> If any updates were applied, update and reboot the server.</li>
 
   <li value="3"> If any updates were applied, update and reboot the server.</li>
       <pre>signal-event post-upgrade
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       <pre>signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot</pre>
signal-event reboot</pre>
   
   <li value="4">Check your current kernel.</li>
 
   <li value="4">Check your current kernel.</li>
 
       <pre>uname -r</pre>
 
       <pre>uname -r</pre>
   <li value="5">Install kernel-devel to get the latest development tree. Latest kernel at the time of writing is 2.6.18-308.13.1.el5.<br/>
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   <li value="5">Install kernel-devel to get the latest development tree.<br/>
Use this command only if you have a PAE kernel installed:
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Use the command below, only if you have a PAE kernel installed:
 
       <pre>yum clean all
 
       <pre>yum clean all
 
yum install kernel-PAE-devel kernel-headers
 
yum install kernel-PAE-devel kernel-headers
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   </li>
 
   <li value="7">Update SME, and reboot again.</li>
 
   <li value="7">Update SME, and reboot again.</li>
       <pre>signal-event post-upgrade
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       <pre>signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot</pre>
signal-event reboot</pre>
   
   <li value="8">Change your kernel boot options.<br/>
 
   <li value="8">Change your kernel boot options.<br/>
 
Optionally, for best results with SME 8.x and earlier versions, modify /etc/grub.conf, adding divider=10 to the kernel boot options in order
 
Optionally, for best results with SME 8.x and earlier versions, modify /etc/grub.conf, adding divider=10 to the kernel boot options in order
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       <pre>yum install --enablerepo=epel dkms</pre>
 
       <pre>yum install --enablerepo=epel dkms</pre>
 
   <li value="13">Install the VirtualBox repository using the instructions [http://wiki.contribs.org/VirtualBox_Repository here].</li>
 
   <li value="13">Install the VirtualBox repository using the instructions [http://wiki.contribs.org/VirtualBox_Repository here].</li>
   <li value="14">Install <b>VirtualBox</b> (At the time of the last update to these instructions, the latest version was v4.1-4.1.22).</li>
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   <li value="14">Install <b>VirtualBox</b> (At the time of the last update to these instructions, the latest version was v4.3-4.3.6-91406).</li>
       <pre>yum install --enablerepo=virtualbox VirtualBox-4.1</pre>
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       <pre>yum install --enablerepo=virtualbox VirtualBox-4.3</pre>
 
   <li value="15">Review the VirtualBox installation log to ensure that the installation was successful.</li>
 
   <li value="15">Review the VirtualBox installation log to ensure that the installation was successful.</li>
 
       <pre>tail /var/log/vbox-install.log</pre>
 
       <pre>tail /var/log/vbox-install.log</pre>
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       <pre>rpm -e gcc</pre>
 
       <pre>rpm -e gcc</pre>
 
   <li value="17">Update SME, and reboot again</li>
 
   <li value="17">Update SME, and reboot again</li>
       <pre>signal-event post-upgrade
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       <pre>signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot</pre>
signal-event reboot</pre>
   
   <li value="18">Setup VirtualBox as a service so it starts automatically after a reboot. Copy the command below on putty console then hit Enter.</li>
 
   <li value="18">Setup VirtualBox as a service so it starts automatically after a reboot. Copy the command below on putty console then hit Enter.</li>
 
       <pre>for file in $(ls /etc/rc5.d/S??vbox*); do cp "$file" /etc/rc7.d/. ;done</pre>
 
       <pre>for file in $(ls /etc/rc5.d/S??vbox*); do cp "$file" /etc/rc7.d/. ;done</pre>
 
   <li value="19">Create a ''virtualbox'' file on your /etc/default/.</li>
 
   <li value="19">Create a ''virtualbox'' file on your /etc/default/.</li>
       <pre>nano /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg</pre>
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       <pre>nano /etc/default/virtualbox</pre>
    
virtualbox should have this content.
 
virtualbox should have this content.
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<b>Note: Without the ''virtualbox'' file, vbox services on your rc7.d folder will not start.</b>
 
<b>Note: Without the ''virtualbox'' file, vbox services on your rc7.d folder will not start.</b>
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   <li value="20">Login to the server-manager page and create an iBay for <b>phpvbox</b>.
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   <li value="20">Install phpVirtualBox using this link http://wiki.contribs.org/Phpvirtualbox#DB_Configuration
  For instructions on how to create and configure an ibay, please see [http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Administration_Manual:Chapter14 the SME Server Administration manual.]</li>
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<b>After creating the ibay, do not forget to assign a password.</b>
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  <li value="21">Before we install <b>[http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/ phpVirtualBox]</b>, make sure you first install <b>SOAP</b>.</li>
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      <pre>yum install php-soap</pre>
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As of 2012-09-03 a fresh sme8b6 with updates installed, the above line tries to install php-soap-5.3.3-13.el5.sme.1.x86_64. If yum complains about a missing dependency php-common-5.3.3-13.el5.sme.1, verify whether you have installed php-common-5.3 by issuing this command "rpm -qa | grep php-common". If so, you can obtain php-soap-5.3.3-1.el5.sme.6  by invoking "<tt>yum install --enablerepo smedev php-soap-5.3.3-1.el5.sme.6</tt>". Integration test passed.
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To avoid this error message “PHP does not have the SOAP extension enabled” especially if you have no plan of restarting the server.
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      <pre>svc -t /service/httpd-e-smith/</pre>
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  <li value="22">Install <b>phpVirtualBox</b></li>
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      <pre>cd /tmp
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wget `wget -q -O - http://phpvirtualbox.googlecode.com/files/LATEST.txt` -O phpvirtualbox-latest.zip
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unzip phpvirtualbox-latest.zip</pre>
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Note: at the time of the last update, the latest version was 4.2-4. Please adjust the following for later versions.
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      <pre>cd phpvirtualbox-4.2-4
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cp –R * /home/e-smith/files/ibays/phpvbox/html</pre>
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  <li value="23">Create a <b>tmp</b> folder inside the /phpvbox/html folder.</li>
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      <pre>cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/phpvbox/html
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mkdir tmp
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chmod 777 tmp/</pre>
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  <li value="24">Create a config file using the example file provided.</li>
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      <pre>cp config.php-example config.php</pre>
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  <li value="25">Open ''config.php'' (located on your /phpvbox/html/ folder). Uncomment some lines (by removing the '#' at the beginning of the line).
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      <pre>nano /home/e-smith/files/ibays/phpvbox/html/config.php</pre>
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      <pre>/* SOAP URL of vboxwebsrv (not phpVirtualBox's URL) */
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var $location = 'http://127.0.0.1:18083/';</pre>
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      <pre>// Disable authentication
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var $noAuth = true;</pre>
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Set the consoleHost parameter to the hostname of the server running VirtualBox
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      <pre>// Host / ip to use for console connections
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//var $consoleHost = 'host-name-of-the-server-running-virtualbox';</pre>
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      <pre>/* Enable advanced configuration items (normally hidden in the VirtualBox GUI)
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* Note that some of these items may not be translated to languages other than $
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*/
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var $enableAdvancedConfig = true;</pre>
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      <pre>// Authentication library.
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//var $authLib = 'Builtin';</pre>
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<!--
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      <pre>// Allow VDE network configuration. This must be supported by the underlying VirtualBox installation!
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//var $enableVDE = true;</pre>
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-->
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Change the tmp location as per below.
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      <pre>// Path
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var $cachePath = '../tmp';</pre>
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  <li value="26">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.</li>
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      <pre>vboxmanage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null</pre>
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  <li value="27">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!</li>
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You can find the extension packs [http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads here.] The following commands download and install the extension pack for VirtualBox 4.2-4.
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      <pre>wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.16/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.16-86992.vbox-extpack
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vboxmanage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.16-86992.vbox-extpack</pre>
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  <li value="28">Update SME, and reboot again</li>
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      <pre>signal-event post-upgrade
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signal-event reboot</pre>
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   <li value="29">Ensure that the extension pack is installed correctly.
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   <li value="21">Ensure that the extension pack is installed correctly.
 
Open a console window, then
 
Open a console window, then
 
       <pre>vboxmanage list extpacks</pre>
 
       <pre>vboxmanage list extpacks</pre>
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Finally,
 
Finally,
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   <li value="30">Open a terminal window to the SME Server and create a directory to store the virtual machine images.</li>
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   <li value="22">Open a terminal window to the SME Server and create a directory to store the virtual machine images.</li>
       <pre>mkdir -p /opt/VMs</pre>
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       <pre>mkdir -p /root/VirtualBox VMs/addons</pre>
   <li value="31">Download the VirtualBox Guest Additions iso for later installation into your virtual machine guests.</li>
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   <li value="23">Download the VirtualBox Guest Additions iso for later installation into your virtual machine guests.</li>
       <pre>mkdir -p /var/lib/VirtualBox/addons
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       <pre>cd /root/VirtualBox VMs/addons
cd /opt/VMs/addons
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wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.6/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.6.iso</pre>
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.16/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.2.16.iso</pre>
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   <li value="32">Using a web browser, Go to http://yourdomain.com/phpvbox and connect to the phpVirtualBox web application.
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   <li value="24">Using a web browser, Go to http://yourdomain.com/phpvirtualbox and connect to the phpVirtualBox web application.
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        <li>From the menu provided, go to select File->Preferences.</li>
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        <li>Select the "General" tab.</li>
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        <li>Change the Default Machine Folder to:
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              <pre>/opt/VMs</pre>
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        </li>
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      </ul>
   
At this point, VirtualBox should now be configured and running correctly. 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. To manage VirtualBox and any virtual machines, use the command line utility VBoxManage. See VBoxManage --help . For a list of available switches for VBoxManage, see this list.  
 
At this point, VirtualBox should now be configured and running correctly. 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. To manage VirtualBox and any virtual machines, use the command line utility VBoxManage. See VBoxManage --help . For a list of available switches for VBoxManage, see this list.  
 
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===Creating a Virtual Machine===
 
===Creating a Virtual Machine===
 
<ol>
 
<ol>
   <li>Using a web browser, go to http://yourdomain.com/phpvbox to create your virtual machine.
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   <li>Using a web browser, go to http://yourdomain.com/phpvirtualbox to create your virtual machine.
 
       <ul>
 
       <ul>
 
         <li>Create a new virtual machine (e.g. vmXP)</li>
 
         <li>Create a new virtual machine (e.g. vmXP)</li>
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       <ul>
 
       <ul>
 
       <li>On Windows, open an RDP client (run -> mstsc) then type your server’s hostname:port number (e.g. myserver:9000), or your Server's (not your Guest) IP address followed by colon then the port number as shown on above image (Remote Desktop Server Port under Display) (e.g. 192.168.100.1:9000).</li>
 
       <li>On Windows, open an RDP client (run -> mstsc) then type your server’s hostname:port number (e.g. myserver:9000), or your Server's (not your Guest) IP address followed by colon then the port number as shown on above image (Remote Desktop Server Port under Display) (e.g. 192.168.100.1:9000).</li>
<b>NOTE:</b> No need to change to port number to 9000 (as per above) in your Windows registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber). It will still be using port 3389 even though phpVirtualBox is using port 9000.
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<b>NOTE:</b> No need to change to port number to 9000 (as per above) in your Windows registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber). It will still be using port 3389 even though phpVirtualBox is using port 9000.<br/>
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If you're remotely connected to your server's phpvirtualbox and adding a new Guest remotely, open port 9000 (source and destination TCP poty) pointing to server's IP, so you can be able to access the console built-in to PhpVirtualBox.
 
</li>
 
</li>
 
       </ul>
 
       </ul>
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</ol>
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===Upgrading VirtualBox===
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    <li>Remove installed VirtualBox.
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      <pre>yum remove VirtualBox-4.1</pre></li>
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    <li>Install the latest VirtualBox, as of this date it is VirtualBox 4.2.
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      <pre>yum install --enablerepo=virtualbox VirtualBox-4.2</pre></li>
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    <li>Create a '''virtualbox''' file on your /etc/default/. On Virtualbox 4.1, virtualbox file was originally /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg.
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      <pre>nano /etc/default/virtualbox</pre>
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      <p>''virtualbox'' should have this content.</p>
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      <pre>VBOXWEB_USER='root'
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VBOXWEB_HOST=127.0.0.1
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VBOXWEB_PORT=18083
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VBOXWEB_LOGFILE=/var/log/vboxweb
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INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib/virtualbox
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</pre></li>
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    <li>Install VirtualBox extension pack, you can find the extension packs [http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads here].
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      <pre>wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.0-80737.vbox-extpack
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vboxmanage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.0-80737.vbox-extpack
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</pre></li>
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    <li>Test if your VirtualBox upgrade is successful by starting your existing virtual machine.
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        <pre>vboxheadless –s vmXP</pre> OR
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        <pre>/etc/init.d/vbox start</pre></li>
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===Upgrading phpVirtualBox===
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<ol>
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  <li>Make a directory to save your existing phpVirtualBox folder.
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      <pre>mkdir –p /tmp/phpvirtualbox-4.1.22</pre></li>
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  <li>Change directory to your phpvbox ibay then copy all of your phpVirtualBox files.
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      <pre>cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/phpvbox/html/
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cp –R * /tmp/phpvirtualbox-4.1.22</pre></li>
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  <li>Download the latest phpVirtualBox to /tmp/ folder.
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      <pre>cd /tmp
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wget http://phpvirtualbox.googlecode.com/files/phpvirtualbox-4.2-0b.zip
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unzip phpvirtualbox-4.2-0b.zip
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cd phpvirtualbox-4.2-0b
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yes | cp -R * /home/e-smith/files/ibays/phpvbox/html/
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</pre></li>
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  <li>Rename ''config.php.example'' to ''config.php'' and edit the configuration file as per above.
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      <pre>mv config.php-example config.php</pre></li>
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  <li>Restart vboxwebservice
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      <pre>/etc/init.d/vboxweb-service restart</pre></li>
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  <li>Download the latest VBox Guest Additions and install to your Guest VM.
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      <pre>cd /opt/VMs/
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wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.2.0.iso
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</pre></li>
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===Troubleshooting===
 
===Troubleshooting===
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[[Category: Virtualisation]]
 
[[Category: Virtualisation]]
 
[[Category: Advanced]]
 
[[Category: Advanced]]
[[Category: Contrib]]
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[[Category: Howto]]
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