14. Managing Virtualbox VMs

This chapter covers using Virtualbox command line tools, most importantly VBoxManage, to manage core DIMS virtual machines.

Note

See also the descriptions of dimsasbuilt:wellington and dimsasbuilt:stirling in dimsasbuilt:dimsasbuilt.

14.1. Remotely Managing Virtualbox

Virtualbox can be managed remotely using X11 (“X Window System”) clients like those in virt tools. From a system running an X11 server, you can use SSH with:

• How to forward X over SSH from Ubuntu machine?
• Use the virt-manager X11 GUI
• Use virt-install and connect by using a local VNC client
• virt-manager won’t release the mouse when using ssh forwarding from OS X

[root@wellington ~]# VBoxManage list runningvms
"vpn" {4f6ed378-8a9d-4c69-a380-2c194bc4eae0}
"foswiki" {8978f52d-1251-4fea-a3d7-8d9a0950bad1}
"lapp" {511b9f91-9323-476e-baf3-9bc64f97511e}
"jira" {c873db45-b81a-47fe-a5e3-6bdfe96b0dea}
"jenkins" {28e023eb-f4c4-40f5-b4e8-d37cfafde3be}
"linda-vm1" {df5fdc5e-d508-4007-9f5d-84a000a2b5c5}
"sso" {3916fa49-d251-4ced-9275-c8757aceaf66}
"u12-dev-ws-1" {9f58eca0-b3a6-451e-9b2b-f458c75d6869}
"u12-dev-svr-1" {cc1fefa3-61f4-4d67-b767-1f4add8f760a}
"hub" {4b530a22-df34-4fd2-89df-2e0a5844b397}

[lparsons@wellington ~]$ vboxmanage list bridgedifs
Name:            em1
GUID:            00316d65-0000-4000-8000-f04da240a9e1
DHCP:            Disabled
IPAddress:       172.28.234.234
NetworkMask:     255.255.255.0
IPV6Address:     fe80:0000:0000:0000:f24d:a2ff:fe40:a9e1
IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 64
HardwareAddress: f0:4d:a2:40:a9:e1
MediumType:      Ethernet
Status:          Up
VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-em1

Name:            em2
GUID:            00326d65-0000-4000-8000-f04da240a9e3
DHCP:            Disabled
IPAddress:       0.0.0.0
NetworkMask:     0.0.0.0
IPV6Address:
IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 0
HardwareAddress: f0:4d:a2:40:a9:e3
MediumType:      Ethernet
Status:          Down
VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-em2

Name:            em3
GUID:            00336d65-0000-4000-8000-f04da240a9e5
DHCP:            Disabled
IPAddress:       0.0.0.0
NetworkMask:     0.0.0.0
IPV6Address:
IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 0
HardwareAddress: f0:4d:a2:40:a9:e5
MediumType:      Ethernet
Status:          Down
VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-em3

Name:            em4
GUID:            00346d65-0000-4000-8000-f04da240a9e7
DHCP:            Disabled
IPAddress:       10.11.11.1
NetworkMask:     255.255.255.0
IPV6Address:     fe80:0000:0000:0000:f24d:a2ff:fe40:a9e7
IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 64
HardwareAddress: f0:4d:a2:40:a9:e7
MediumType:      Ethernet
Status:          Up
VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-em4

[lparsons@wellington ~]$ vboxmanage list hostonlyifs
Name:            vboxnet0
GUID:            786f6276-656e-4074-8000-0a0027000000
DHCP:            Disabled
IPAddress:       192.168.88.0
NetworkMask:     255.255.255.0
IPV6Address:     fe80:0000:0000:0000:0800:27ff:fe00:0000
IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 64
HardwareAddress: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
MediumType:      Ethernet
Status:          Up
VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0

Name:            vboxnet1
GUID:            786f6276-656e-4174-8000-0a0027000001
DHCP:            Disabled
IPAddress:       192.168.57.1
NetworkMask:     255.255.255.0
IPV6Address:
IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 0
HardwareAddress: 0a:00:27:00:00:01
MediumType:      Ethernet
Status:          Down
VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet1

Name:            vboxnet2
GUID:            786f6276-656e-4274-8000-0a0027000002
DHCP:            Disabled
IPAddress:       192.168.58.1
NetworkMask:     255.255.255.0
IPV6Address:
IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 0
HardwareAddress: 0a:00:27:00:00:02
MediumType:      Ethernet
Status:          Down
VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet2

Name:            vboxnet3
GUID:            786f6276-656e-4374-8000-0a0027000003
DHCP:            Disabled
IPAddress:       172.17.8.1
NetworkMask:     255.255.255.0
IPV6Address:     fe80:0000:0000:0000:0800:27ff:fe00:0003
IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength: 64
HardwareAddress: 0a:00:27:00:00:03
MediumType:      Ethernet
Status:          Up
VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet3

[lparsons@wellington ~]$ sudo vboxmanage list dhcpservers
NetworkName:    HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet0
IP:             192.168.88.100
NetworkMask:    255.255.255.0
lowerIPAddress: 192.168.88.102
upperIPAddress: 192.168.88.254
Enabled:        Yes

NetworkName:    HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet2
IP:             0.0.0.0
NetworkMask:    0.0.0.0
lowerIPAddress: 0.0.0.0
upperIPAddress: 0.0.0.0
Enabled:        No

NetworkName:    HostInterfaceNetworking-vboxnet1
IP:             0.0.0.0
NetworkMask:    0.0.0.0
lowerIPAddress: 0.0.0.0
upperIPAddress: 0.0.0.0
Enabled:        No

http://superuser.com/questions/375316/closing-gui-session-while-running-virtual-mashine-virtual-box