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
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). 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 :)
Cheers, Pete
2010/1/7 Paul Grenyer paul.grenyer@gmail.com:
Hi Peter
If that doesn't fix it, try releasing the .vdi disk image, delete your virtual machine and then create a new virtual machine using your old .vdi disk image.
That worked!
I notice you didn't include the quotation marks in the commands you quoted. That may well make a difference.
The relevant part of the manual is here:
and so did adding the quotes!
I can now connect to my Ubuntu desktop machine as if it was actually running Microsoft SQL server!
Now I just need to see if I can run VirtualBox as a server (I'll check the manual) and Management Studio under something like WINE.
Thanks Peter!
-- Thanks Paul
Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer@gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com
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