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  Virtual box Mitch Nuss <Mitchsales@hamilton.net> - 2015-10-20 06:00 +0200
    Re: Virtual box Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2015-10-20 12:10 +0200
      Re: Virtual box Jari Fredriksson <jarif@iki.fi> - 2015-10-23 18:20 +0200
    Re: Virtual box Catalin Soare <lolinux.soare@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 10:30 +0200

#159502 — Virtual box

I am wanting to install Debian into a pic tower I have and want to use it as a headless server and use a tight VNC so I can access it anywhere. Do you have any advice for me and will I need to install virtual box? Amy info you have for me would be great thanks.

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 09:33:56PM -0500, Mitch Nuss wrote:
> I am wanting to install Debian into a pic tower I have and want to use it as a headless server and use a tight VNC so I can access it anywhere. Do you have any advice for me and will I need to install virtual box? Amy info you have for me would be great thanks.

Assuming you mean "PC tower", then a VNC server should be sufficient.  
As you might expect from Linux, there are a number of alternatives you 
could consider, too. If you're happy at the command line, then debian 
comes with SSH out-of-the-box, so you can get a command line straight 
away. If you will be connecting from another linux machine, then you 
might consider remote X connections (you can either run "ssh -X pc-tower 
x-application" to run an individual application, or look into XDMCP if 
you want a full remote desktop).

You won't NEED to install virtualbox, but there's no reason you can't.  
Virtualbox will allow you to create a "PC on a PC", but won't address 
the issue of running things remotely. 

For a couple of useful tutorials, take a look at 
https://wiki.debian.org/RemoteDesktop

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On 20.10.2015 12:59, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 09:33:56PM -0500, Mitch Nuss wrote:
>> I am wanting to install Debian into a pic tower I have and want to 
>> use it as a headless server and use a tight VNC so I can access it 
>> anywhere. Do you have any advice for me and will I need to install 
>> virtual box? Amy info you have for me would be great thanks.
>
>
> You won't NEED to install virtualbox, but there's no reason you 
> can't.
> Virtualbox will allow you to create a "PC on a PC", but won't address
> the issue of running things remotely.
>

VirtualBox can have a RDP server in itself for the VM, so one can use 
the VM remotely using that, no need to install any VNC server on it 
necessarily.

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Mitch Nuss <Mitchsales@hamilton.net> wrote:

> I am wanting to install Debian into a pic tower I have and want to use it
> as a headless server and use a tight VNC so I can access it anywhere. Do
> you have any advice for me and will I need to install virtual box? Amy info
> you have for me would be great thanks.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>


Hello,

If you want some virtualization, then yes, you'll have to install some
virtualization software, out of which I guess Virtualbox is the easiest to
setup.
But you don't really need VNC, unless you plan to install many VMs and then
remove them, and then install others (so unless you really need a GUI).

The way I do this: I setup my VMs (webserver / other servers), then:
1. I turn on my PC with wakeonlan from another device;
2. I ssh into my PC
3. I turn on the VMs that I want to work on from the ssh session:
vboxmanage startvm "VM_name" --type headless.

The name of the VMs can be found by "vboxmanage list vms".

Good luck!

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Regards,
*Catalin Soare <lolinux.soare@gmail.com>*

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