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VirtualBox Headless on Ubuntu 16.04

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This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 5.1 on a headless Ubuntu 16.04 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 an Ubuntu 16.04 server (host system) where I'm logged in as a normal user. 2 Installing VirtualBox To install VirtualBox 5.1 on our Ubuntu 16.04 server, we add virtualbox sources to apt ... echo 'deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list Then we download the VirtualBox public key... wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- |…
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