Manage VirtualBox remotely with RemoteBox – Install on Linux

RemoteBox is a VirtualBox client tool that enables you to essentially administer the installation of a virtualbox on a server remotely (ie over the network), including its guests as well as ability to interact with them as if they were running locally.

VirtualBox is installed on the server machine while RemoteBox runs on the client machine. It provides a complete GTK graphical interface with a look and feel very similar to that of VirtualBox’s native GUI.

Key Features

Open source VirtualBox client with a graphical (GTK) interface
Remote management of VirtualBox and its guests
No web server such as Apache or IIS is required to run the app
No compilation is required – written entirely in Perl
View and interact with the guest’s display via RDP, including sound as well as clipboard
Create and edit guests
Configure processor, display, input devices, audio, I/O ports, as well as shared folders
Set the guest BIOS configuration including the BIOS image
Set advanced options such as HPET, Page Fusion, Large Pages, CPU Hotplugging, CPU Throttling etc
Attach USB devices as well as set USB device filters
Stop, start, pause as well as save guest states
Provision and attach storage including hard disks, CDs/DVDs as well as floppy disks
Configure networking including host only networks with DHCP servers
Supports guest snapshots
Compatible with VirtualBox running on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and Solaris
Furthermore, it runs on Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X
And much more…

RemoteBox 2.2 Changelog

Added support for adding an NVMe Controller to the guest
It now requires VirtualBox 5.1.x
Added support for setting the hot-pluggable flag on harddisk as well as optical devices attached to SATA or USB storage controllers
Added support for specifying whether a disk controller should be bootable or not
Updated the number of possible SAS ports from 8 to 255 for an attached medium
Added the ability to set the number of SAS ports
Updated FreeBSD guest OS Icons
Fixed a bug when assigning a different SAS port to a medium. RemoteBox was not creating the SAS port first causing a port out of range error.
Fixed a bug when selecting storage attached to the USB controller. RemoteBox incorrectly showed the IDE controller attributes.
Set default guest OS types for new guests to Windows 10 64bit, Fedora 64bit, FreeBSD 64bit as well as DOS for their respective OS families
Minor changes to appdata.xml
In addition to various GUI tweaks

How to Install RemoteBox 2.2 on Ubuntu 16.10

wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -    sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu yakkety-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install remotebox

How to Install RemoteBox 2.2 on Ubuntu 16.04

wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -    sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install remotebox