Command line VirtualBox management is available through VBoxManage, however, that may or may not be the best solution. <div><br></div><div>Whether or not you should have used the client version depends on what you want to do. It is possible to install a GUI on the server version, it just doesn't come installed by default. <font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop</font> will give you the full Ubuntu desktop, or to install it without addins like a mail client and office software you can run <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop</font></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><br></span></font></div><div>Are you planning on only using this box for hosting virtual machines? If so, you may want to look into a hypervisor solution like Xen. A hypervisor would allow you to use fewer of your limited resources running the host OS and save those resources for the virtual machines. <br>
<div><br clear="all">Michael Davis<div><div>ECpE - Iowa State University</div><div>CHS Desktop Operations Staff</div><div>IASG Treasurer</div></div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Tom Sellers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomsellers2001@yahoo.com">tomsellers2001@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 server version on a machine and then tried to install virtualbox on the same machine. The problem that I seem to have encountered is that virtualbox appears to require a graphical desktop which is not installed with the server version. The machine is a dual core processor laptop with 1 GB of memory.<var></var></div>
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<div>First question is does virtualbox require the graphical desktop instead of a command line interface?</div>
<div>Second question is should I have used the client version instead of the server version of Ubuntu 11?</div>
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<div>Anyone have any experience that could share some of that expertise with me?</div>
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