[Gentoo] virtual windows server on gentoo with no gui

[RabbieBurns]

Ok, with messing with the settings in the terminal services client in ubuntu, I have managed to get ctrl-alt-del working by specifically choosing then en-uk keyboard, rather than the option to detect it

[RabbieBurns]

Sorry for another question.... but how would i get the new VM to have an IP address on the same network as the host, and be viewable from all other hosts on the network - rather than being NAT'd from the gentoo host IP?

Would that involve what I took a note of earlier?

For advanced networking setups you should emerge:
* net-misc/bridge-utils and sys-apps/usermode-utilities

[RabbieBurns]

Just knocked this up to simplify things for me.. Doesnt do any sanity checking for input or anything, but its a start...

#!/bin/bash
echo Create New VirtualBox Machine Helper
echo ------------------------------------
echo
echo -n "Enter a name for your machine: "
read MACHINENAME
echo -n "How much RAM should it have? (eg 512): "
read RAM
echo -n "How big HD to create? (eg 10000 = 10gb): "
read HDSIZE
echo -n "Do you need to register a new .iso? (Y/N): "
read REGISO
        if [ "$REGISO" = "Y" ] || [ "$REGISO" = "y" ]; then
                echo -n "Enter .iso file to register, including full path: "
                read NEWISO
                echo Registering new .iso ...
                VBoxManage registerimage dvd $NEWISO
        fi
echo -n "Enter .iso file to use for boot, including full path: "
read ISO
read -p "Press any key to start creating the Virtual Machine "
echo Creating machine...
VBoxManage createvm -name "$MACHINENAME" -register
echo Setting specs...
VBoxManage modifyvm "$MACHINENAME" -memory "$RAMMB" -acpi on -boot1 dvd -nic1 nat
echo Creating HD...
VBoxManage createvdi -filename "$MACHINENAME.vdi" -size $HDSIZE -register
echo Registering HD...
VBoxManage modifyvm "$MACHINENAME" -hda "$MACHINENAME.vdi"
echo Setting Boot CD...
VBoxManage modifyvm $MACHINENAME -dvd $ISO
echo All Done...
echo

also made this as well for new cd images:

#!/bin/bash
echo Virtualbox register new .iso image
echo ----------------------------------
echo -n "Enter image filename (including path): "
read iso
VBoxManage registerimage dvd $iso

Not sure if anyones as lazy as me, but posted these here anyway...

[RabbieBurns]

To install the Guest Additions, you need to register the .iso which is included...

VBoxManage registerimage dvd /opt/VirtualBox-2.0.2/additions/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

and then assign it to the VM

VBoxManage controlvm "2003Server" dvdattach /opt/VirtualBox-2.0.2/additions/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

[RabbieBurns]

http://www.edugeek.net/wiki/index.ph...entoo_(x86/x64)

work in progress heh