Possibly a daft question

[RabbieBurns]

but does VMWare or virtualbox etc require X to run virtual windows machines or can it be done with just terminal ?

[Geoff]

I can only say about VMWare, having used that. Only if you want to use the management console. However you can use the console remotely from another machine and/or use the web interface.

[dhicks]

but does VMWare or virtualbox etc require X to run virtual windows machines or can it be done with just terminal?

 

Xen seems to run Windows from the terminal just fine (I can RDP into the running Windows VM without having anything to do with X on the server), but I did need a machine running X to start the Windows VM in the first place as I wasn't quite sure what I was doing the first time and wanted to make sure I could interact with Windows if I needed to.

 

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David Hicks