Well, the basic answer would be that you would ssh into the server and type in the commands to create the virtual machine. But I think you're asking how would you answer the questions asked by the installer, right? I use 2 different approaches. Firste, use some kind of auto installer. Second, create the virtual machine on a desktop and copy it to the server. 1. For doing an automatic installation of Windows, I use an autounattend.xml answer file. I have a bash script that takes as parameters the location of the Windows installation iSO and an answer file. The script creates a virtual diskette image, writes the anser file to the diskette, and inserts the diskette into the virtual machine's floppy drive before boot. Here is a link to the script: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/pub/createvm For Ubuntu server, I use the Ubuntu server auto-installation system. Ubuntu completely changed the auto-installer system for 20.04. It now takes an amazon cloud config file as an answer file. For Debian or Ubuntu desktop, I use a debian package called fai, Fully Automated Install. uses 2. To copy a VirtualBox vm from one host to another, all you have to do is to copy the files over and register the virtual machine on the new host. I don't have those commands in front of me right now but they are easily googleable. On 10/10/20 10:31 AM, mattias jonsson wrote:

John

Lets say you use virtualbox on a server

e.g a dedicated server

how do you install the guest?

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I use VirtualBox for linux. As far as I know, everything you can do in the graphical interface can also be done at the command line. So it is very accessible.

Here's a tip about running a virtual machine in Linux: You can take a screen capture and then run an OCR program on it to read the screen even if sound isn't working. I think almost all virtual environments have screen cap functions. In VirtualBox you get a png image of the screen. I have found that gocr works much better than tesseract for recognizing the text in those screen caps.

On 10/10/20 6:01 AM, mattias jonsson wrote:  > are it not designed to work without graphical environments? i search for a virtual machine environment  > _______________________________________________  > Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org  > To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org  >