VBoxWebSrv is the VirtualBox Web Service that allows you to manage your VirtualBox virtual machines remotely through a web-based API. It is commonly used with tools like phpVirtualBox to provide a full web interface for VM control.
By running VBoxWebSrv as a Windows service, you ensure it starts automatically with your system and runs continuously in the background.
Installing VBoxWebSrv as a Windows Service with NSSM
Download NSSM (Non-Sucking Service Manager) from https://nssm.cc/download and...
$ sudo dnf update
$ sudo reboot
(So any new installed kernel will be loaded)
$ sudo dnf install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers make bzip2 perl
Go to the VirtualBox Menu > Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image
Automated:
Press Run
Manual:
$ cd /run/media/$USER/VBox_GAs_*/ # Adjust path if needed
$ sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
$ sudo reboot
Verification:
$ lsmod | grep vbox
(Check to see if vboxguest is listed)
Try the following steps:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
$ sudo apt install curl
$ curl -fsSL https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc | sudo gpg –dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/virtualbox-archive-keyring.gpg
$ echo “deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/virtualbox-archive-keyring.gpg] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian noble contrib” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo search virtualbox...
Installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions on Rocky Linux 9.3
dnf install epel-release dnf update --refresh dnf update kernel-* reboot (optional) dnf install dkms kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc make bzip2 perl elfutils-libelf-devel rpm -q kernel-devel uname -r Top menu: Devices -> Insert Guest Additions CD-Image Run (optional) cd /run/media/ ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
How to create an ISO file of a directory on macOS that can be mounted as a CDROM in MS-DOS 6.22 ?
Start Disk Utility on macOS
Go to: File -> New Image -> Image from Folder Choose the directory and press Choose Set Image Format to: DVD/CD master and press Save A *.cdr file will be created Go to the command line Cd to the directory with the *.cdr file Type the command: $ hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o tcc.iso TCC.cdr Go to your virtual machine running MS-DOS 6.22 and mount the newly...
Try Oracle VirtualBox version 6.1.40 the older version. In my home lab the newest version of VirtualBox 7.0.4 did not work due to the error: hv_vm_create() failed: 0xfae94001 (VERR_NEM_INIT_FAILED)
In the older version this was not an issue.
