Author: MalH

Following on from my previous guide VirtualBox Headless on Ubuntu 16.04 I have now updated this for Ubuntu 17.10 as I got a new server :) This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 5.2 on a headless Ubuntu 17.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI. 1 Preliminary Note I have tested this on a freshly installed Ubuntu 17.10 server (host system) where I'm logged in as a normal user. The only option chosen during the install was SSHD Server. After initial…

1. Make guest additions iso available on host server VBoxManage storageattach "" --storagectl IDE --port 0 --device 0 --type dvddrive --medium /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso 2. Mount cdrom and install/update guest additions in guest sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom sudo bash /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run sudo umount /media/cdom 3. Reboot guest to ensure everything is loaded. sudo reboot now 4. Remove CD iso VBoxManage storageattach "" --storagectl IDE --port 0 --device 0 --medium "none"

1. Modify the file /etc/default/virtualbox and add a few variables. VBOXAUTOSTART_DB which contains an absolute path to the autostart database directory and VBOXAUTOSTART_CONFIG which contains the location of the autostart config settings. echo 'VBOXAUTOSTART_DB=/etc/vbox' | sudo tee -a /etc/default/virtualbox echo 'VBOXAUTOSTART_CONFIG=/etc/vbox/autostart.cfg' | sudo tee -a /etc/default/virtualbox 2. Create the autostart.cfg file NB: You may need to change the username or add others, depending on your installation. echo '# Default policy is to deny starting a VM, the other option is "allow".' | sudo tee /etc/vbox/autostart.cfg echo 'default_policy = deny' | sudo tee -a /etc/vbox/autostart.cfg echo '# Create an entry for each user allowed to run autostart' | sudo tee -a /etc/vbox/autostart.cfg echo 'vbox = {' | sudo tee -a /etc/vbox/autostart.cfg echo 'allow = true' | sudo tee -a /etc/vbox/autostart.cfg echo…

1 Add a vbox user sudo adduser vbox Now we must add the user to the vboxusers group: sudo adduser vbox vboxusers 2 Start VirtualBox Web Services Create the file /etc/default/virtualbox and put the line VBOXWEB_USER=vbox in it (so that the VirtualBox SOAP API which is called vboxwebsrv runs as the user vbox): echo '# virtualbox defaults file' | sudo tee /etc/default/virtualbox echo 'VBOXWEB_USER=vbox' | sudo tee -a /etc/default/virtualbox Next create the system startup links for vboxwebsrv and start it: sudo systemctl enable vboxweb-service sudo systemctl start vboxweb-service 3 Install Apache2 We need a web server with PHP support to serve phpVirtualBox. Install Apache and PHP as follows: sudo apt-get -y install apache2 libapache2-mod-php7.0 libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap libapr1 php7.0-common php7.0-mysql php7.0-soap php-pear wget Restart Apache: sudo systemctl restart apache2.service…

sudo mkdir /home/nukkit sudo adduser nukkit sudo chown -R nukkit:nukkit /home/nukkit/ su - nukkit wget http://ci.mengcraft.com:8080/job/nukkit/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/target/nukkit-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar java -jar nukkit-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar And follow through the initial setup. test it .. sudo update-rc.d nukkit defaults