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Dec
02

Installing VirtualBox VBoxHeadless & PHPVirtualBox on openSUSE 12.1 Minimalis

VirtualBox is one of the tools that are used for Desktop Virtualization : running an OS within the OS. VirtualBox usually installed on the operating system that already has the VirtualBox GUI to manage it. But, how to manage VirtualBox without VirtualBox GUI? VBoxHeadless is the answer if we want to install VirtualBox on minimal Linux server and manage it via Browser.

I’m using openSUSE 12.1 64 bit on this tutorial but the steps can also be applied to earlier versions (11.x) as well as on SLES 11 SP1. I also use VirtualBox for All distributions binary package, although for openSUSE we can also use an RPM-binary package.

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Nov
29

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 Minimal Server Appliance

I’m currently working as an IT system integrator on a small company based on Bekasi, a small town near Jakarta Indonesia. The company founded by me and my young brother and covering on various jobs regarding server setting, implementation, maintenance and workshop/training.

At first, installing server is an interesting jobs but after similar works on some client, I feel bored with the process, ie :

  1. Virtualization Server (VMWare, KVM, OpenVZ, Xen, etc) Installation
  2. Server OS installation
  3. Application Installation
  4. Customizing the configuration

I think I could reduce the time for processing the above task by making an appliance using SUSE Studio. An appliance will contains my default server setup and all of packages required by application. The results are Minimal Server Appliance.

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Category: OpenSUSE, Virtualization, Zimbra  Tags: , , ,  2 Comments
Aug
06

Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.6 on openSUSE 11.3

Installing VirtualBox on openSUSE 11.3 has similar method as on openSUSE 11.2 with only a few changes : VirtualBox on openSUSE 11.3 need openSSL and PNG library as dependencies package.

I’m using VirtualBox 3.2.6 64 bit on openSUSE 11.3 64 bit on this article. You may also use this guide for installing VirtualBox 32 bit, there is no major difference between 2 version.

  1. Install required library and package : kernel-source, make, gcc, gcc-c++, pam-devel, kernel-syms by using YAST | Software | Software Management or  Zypper package manager : 
    zypper in kernel-source make gcc gcc-c++ pam-devel kernel-syms

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