VirtualBox

Configuration

I have two virtual machines:

1. NAS
2. Vista

The first is my home NAS running Ubuntu server (see Home Network for details). I want to run this headless:

VBoxHeadless -startvm NAS &

The second is an installation of Microsoft Vista.

• Auto Start VirtualBox Guests
• Start a VirtualBox VM as a service
• How to setup VirtualBox as a service
• Start VirtualBox virtual machines on boot

Installation

I'm using the non-free version, which has some additional support.

• Download and installation

When I've played with VirtualBox in the past, in order to install my copy of Windows Vista, which is tied to the BIOS on my Dell Inspiron 531, I've had to configure the BIOS DMI, which I never bothered doing. No need with VirtualBox 3.0! Installation works out of the box. Yeah!