How to install or mount an appliance?

[Benjamin Griese]

Hello guys,
just fyi, there is a Virtualbox 4.0 Headless solution with a WebGUI on
10.04.1.

http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/

<http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/>Bye.

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 06:31, matthew byers <faintstlsaint at gmail.com>wrote:

> sorry pandu for sending that last email to you only, i meant to post
> here...anyways, jfyi to op, you can run virtualbox from command line.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu at poluan.info> wrote:
>
>> (sorry for top-posting; the Gmail mobile client can only reply by
>> top-posting)
>>
>> Well, if you want to run that appliance on the file sever, you still
>> have to install a hypervisor on the file server (e.g., VMware or Xen
>> or Linux KVM).
>>
>> I'd recommend setting aside another server box and install a baremetal
>> hypervisor on it (e.g., VMware ESXi or Citrix XenServer).
>>
>> Rgds,
>>
>>
>> On 2011-02-11, dxiri343 at gmail.com <dxiri343 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thats exactly why, me neither have never configured either, and the
>> > appliance provides web chat, registration, domain configuration with the
>> > domain name of my choice, security fixes, etc. In short it provides a
>> better
>> > configuration that configuring it myself. Only thing missing would be
>> the AD
>> > replication.
>> >
>> > Another advantage is that the files on this file server are VERY
>> critical to
>> > my company and having a virtual machine separates roles, so if for some
>> > reason I screw up I can just delete the VM instead of doing a painfull
>> > system troubleshoot.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > ------Original Message------
>> > From: Pandu Poluan
>> > To: Diego Xirinachs
>> > Subject: Re: How to install or mount an appliance?
>> > Sent: Feb 10, 2011 18:44
>> >
>> > (sorry for top posting. the Gmail mobile app insists on top posting)
>> >
>> > Um, why would you want a virtual appliance when Maverick has ejabberd
>> > package? See http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ejabberd
>> >
>> > Do a sudo apt-get install ejabberd (or use sudo aptitude), and follow
>> > ejabberd's documentation on how to configure
>> > http://www.process-one.net/docs/ejabberd/guide_en.html
>> >
>> > If you want ejabberd to auth against Active Directory, you'll have to
>> > go the LDAP route, and (probably) need to learn how to have OpenLDAP
>> > replicate from AD.
>> >
>> http://www.google.com/m?q=openldap+replicate+active+directory&client=ms-opera-mobile&channel=new
>> >
>> > Note: I've never done either (use ejabberd or OpenLDAP), so I can't
>> > guide you further. Sorry.
>> >
>> > Rgds,
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2011-02-11, Diego Xirinachs <dxiri343 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Dear List,
>> >>
>> >> I have a File server running ubuntu server 10.04 LTS, and I was running
>> >> and
>> >> OpenFire server (jabber messenger service) on top of a windows server
>> >> machine. Openfire is crashing a lot so I decided to go a different way
>> and
>> >> try a new software, then I found an appliance called ejabberd (you can
>> >> find
>> >> it HERE <http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ejabberd>)
>> >>
>> >> What I want to do is to mount that virtual appliance on my file server,
>> so
>> >> I
>> >> dont have to mess around installing everything needed to run the jabber
>> >> messenger.
>> >>
>> >> How can I mount the appliance if the server is command line only?
>> >>
>> >> I have never done this kind of stuff so I am a little lost.
>> >>
>> >> I guess I would have to install a virtual machine that can handle the
>> >> appliance of course, but the one I know (VirtualBox) I think its GUI
>> only.
>> >>
>> >> One last thing: Can I make ejabberd users to authenticate against
>> Active
>> >> Directory?
>> >>
>> >> Any light on this will be greatly appreciated
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> X1R1
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > --
>> > Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer
>> > My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
>> >
>> >
>> > Enviado desde un dispositivo inalámbrico BlackBerry®
>>
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