[Discuss] Boston Linux Meeting Reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, July 18 , 2012 - The Virtual Desktop

[brendan at glump.net (Brendan Kidwell)]

(I probably shouldn't have addressed my reply to 'announce' -- I
assume that's not allowed. Sending again to Jerry and to 'discuss'.)

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> When: July 18, 2012 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
> Topic: The Virtual Desktop
> Moderator:Jerry Feldman
> Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315
> ...
> I'm also looking at running a VMM as a service. Depends
> if I have the time to check it out or not.

When this BLU meeting was first announced, I mentioned that I have a
howto for running VirtualBox as a service in Linux and that the init.d
script in the article needed updating.

I polished up the script last night and it should work just fine now
in current Ubuntu and Fedora installations.
https://github.com/bkidwell/vbox-service-template . Later today I'll
remove the old script from the howto article and point the article and
script to each other. If there's time this evening I can spend 5 to 10
minutes walking through a demo if the audience is interested.

Running desktop-hosted VMs on servers other than VirtualBox is left as
an exercise for the reader. :^)

Brendan