Virtual Box on FreeBSD Server

[Walter Hurry]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:37:11 -0700, Bill Tillman wrote:

> I've been looking into setting up some Linux servers but instead I'm
> thinking that I could use Virtual Box on my FreeBSD servers to do this.
> I would like some seasoned advice from others on the following before
> proceeding:
> 
> 1. As I understand it you can install Virtual Box from the ports
> collection. But then I see the instructions in the Handbook:
> 
>       To launch VirtualBox, type from a Xorg session:
> % VirtualBox So am I to assume the only way to run Virtual Box is to
> have Xorg installed and running on the FreeBSD server?  Which is a drag
> because my current FreeBSD servers are exactly that, servers, and do not
> have the fancy video cards, monitors, etc.. to run Xorg. Is there an
> alternative to running the interface from Xorg. I'm a command line
> fanatic when it comes to servers. Or would I be able to install Xvnc or
> something like that and run it from one of my Windows 7 machines which
> has all the fancy video capabilities?
> 
> 
> 2. Once installed, I will be able to install something like Fedora or
> openSUSE? These will only be installed as server so I can run databases
> like MySQL in the Linux environment. The client I'm working for insists
> on using SUSE...no FreeBSD allowed. They think it's poison and are very
> biased on this so there's no talking them out of it. I need to gain
> experience using these databases on Linux, not FreeBSD.
> 
> 3. I'm going to buy a 1 TB SATA drive for this setup. It will be running
> on an AMD64 server with FreeBSD 9.x or whatever is the latest release as
> of this weekend.
> 
> 4. There is also a Plan 'B' to go the other way. Since I already have
> two i7 machines running Windows 7, perhaps it might be better to install
> the Windows version of Virtual Box or even VMWare and create my
> instances of Linux on one or even both of these machines.
> 

1. No you don't need X -you can run headless on the server. The 
VirtualBox manual gives details of this.

2. Yes, that's the whole point of virtual machines.

3. 9.1 is fine.

4. No comment. I don't use Windows (and prefer to keep it that way); only 
Unix, FreeBSD and Linux.