Creating, managing, and running your first remote virtual machine on the Ubuntu headless server

In this section, you're going to learn how to create, manage, and run your first remote virtual machine on the Ubuntu headless server you installed in the previous section. I decided to use the Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 operating system for your virtual machine because you already saw how to create a virtual machine with this operating system in Chapter 2. Now you'll see some slight differences involved in creating a virtual machine inside a headless server.

Enabling FTP to upload guest images to your headless server

Now that VirtualBox is installed on your Ubuntu headless server, you need some methods to upload a guest ISO image containing the guest operating system you want to install on your virtual machine. In this case, I'll show you how to enable the FTP service in your Ubuntu headless server so you can upload ISO images to it from a remote desktop PC.