Hi
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Peter Thorpe peter.3.thorpe@googlemail.com wrote:
Paul,
I'm not exactly 100% sure what you mean by running VirtualBox as a server, but I'd suggest doing:
VBoxManage --help
in a console window. And perhaps the sort of command you are looking for to run a VirtualBox guest as a server is
VBoxManage startvm <VMNAME> --type headless
Yes, that's exactly what I was looking for, thanks.
This command will not start any GUI windows for you and pretty much means that the only hope of getting to the desktop of your virtual windows machine is using remote desktop (try rdesktop on linux).
Yeah, I've used rdesktop quite a bit. However, I don't seem to be able to connect when I run in headless mode, can't even ping, even though I can see the VM registered on my router.
But given a few minutes to boot up and get started you should soon be able to access your SQL server without needing any X GUI windows running. And the step after that is a simple init script to run this command at boot time of the machine.
I might be able to help a bit more with this if you have any questions because I am working on this at work at the moment :)
Cool! In that case, is there a way to write a script to shut down the Windows 2003 Server VM cleanly?