[libvirt-users] Libvirt with virtualbox
Dawid Zamirski
dzrudy at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 14:03:18 UTC 2014
On Fri, 23 May 2014 18:34:33 +0200, Dr. Boris Neubert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anyone of you successfully used libvirt with VirtualBox? I ask
> because I haven't managed to connect to my machines and would like to
> benefit from your experience.
>
> Cheers Boris
Hi,
Yes, I've been using VirtualBox-4.3.10 with libvirt-1.2.3 quite
successfully, though it took me a while to figure out how to work with it:
1. There are two ways to connect:
a) vbox:///system - this connects to vbox running as root which is
rarely the case for usual vbox installations.
b) vbox:///session - connects to vbox running as current user (this is
most likely what you will want to do)
2. While I could list, shutdown etc running VMs, I could not start any
with default configuration - start VM would just freeze as for some
reason it cannot initialize VBox GUI. To solve this:
a) redefine VM to start in headless mode and use RDP as your display
instead. To do so make sure VMs XML graphics settings are as below:
<driver>
<graphics type="rdp" autoport="yes">
</driver>
Make sure that there's NO <graphics type="desktop"> in there as this is
what attempts to start VBox GUI.
b) start VBox GUI first, and the libvirt should be able to start VMs
fine.
Regards,
Dawid Zamirski
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