On 17/05/16 22:38, James Hogarth wrote: > On 17 May 2016 at 09:11, Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote: > >> On 17/05/16 19:58, John Hodrien wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 17 May 2016, Rob Kampen wrote: >>> >>> No idea where to from here, so if there is anyone that has a working >>>> systemd autostart VirtualBox setup on a headless CentOS 7 server - please >>>> advise what you have done to get it working. >>>> >>> I deliberately bailed on VirtualBox when we moved to C7, as KVM offered >>> everything I needed with less hassle. >>> >>> I take it you've considered switching? >>> >>> Considered, very briefly. I have had great success and stability with >> running VirtualBox on both CentOS 5 & 6 for the few Windoze apps that my >> clients need to run and have up on a server 24x7. The set ups I am using >> have been running reliably for over 8 years and remote manged with zero >> issues - HUGE thanks to the CentOS team for an awesome OS system delivery >> Thus, I have simply installed the latest VirtualBox on CentOS 7 and gone >> from there. I was aware that systemd existed and deliberately waited until >> this year to upgrade the hardware and OS, thinking issues like this should >> have been sorted by now. >> Are there any good tutorial / howtos for KVM? Although at this point I am >> back on another continent and reluctant to shift to KVM when over 20 hours >> fly time away from the server. >> >> > Why would that be an issue? It's not Xen where you have to boot into a > special kernel ... it's just the ordinary kernel. In fact I'd be surprised > if you had to reboot at all, you should just have to install the > virtualization group (along with virt-tools and virt-manager to make your > life easier, dont' forget to install fonts if using virt-manager over X > forward and wanting to avoid little boxes instead of characters) and be up > and running. thanks James. I have started working through the document you indicated and will see how it goes. It may take a few days to sort out enough time. BTW, will I be able to use the Windows10 image file that VirtualBox uses? Is there a tool that changes the format of the vm image if its different? Or am I faced with a new Windoze install and installing the Windoze Apps all over again? That may be an issue as the Windoze application is quite complex and the last two times I have installed it, I had to use the app provider's help line to solve Windoze 10 issues as the default install has some things that need changing in order for their app to work. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos