Ok, you've mastered most of the basic stuff you need to work with VirtualBox and virtual machines in your home, office, or school environments. Now I'm going to teach you a pretty cool and awesome feature of VirtualBox: managing your virtual machines from a remote computer!
First I'll introduce you to the alternative frontends available for running VirtualBox and controlling your virtual machines, and then I'll take you on a step by step tour where you'll learn to install, configure, and run your own VirtualBox headless server from another PC.
In this chapter you shall:
Learn the basics about VBoxManage, the alternative frontend you can use to control and run your virtual machines from your host's command-line interface
Learn the basics about VBoxSDL, a simple graphical frontend you can use instead of the classic VirtualBox frontend to control your virtual machines
Learn the basics about VBoxHeadless, the VRDP server interface...