Chapter 8. Managing your Virtual Machines from a Remote Computer

Ok, you've mastered most of the basic stuff you need to work with VirtualBox and virtual machines in your home, office, or school environments. Now I'm going to teach you a pretty cool and awesome feature of VirtualBox: managing your virtual machines from a remote computer!

First I'll introduce you to the alternative frontends available for running VirtualBox and controlling your virtual machines, and then I'll take you on a step by step tour where you'll learn to install, configure, and run your own VirtualBox headless server from another PC.

In this chapter you shall:

• Learn the basics about VBoxManage, the alternative frontend you can use to control and run your virtual machines from your host's command-line interface

• Learn the basics about VBoxSDL, a simple graphical frontend you can use instead of the classic VirtualBox frontend to control your virtual machines

• Learn the basics about VBoxHeadless, the VRDP server interface...