VirtualBox

The best documentation on learning and using VirtualBox is going to be at the VirtualBox website.

VirtualBox 6.1 is installed on ICS Openlab Linux systems. It can be added to any research Linux system as well. VirtualBox is not installed in the ICS Windows computing labs as VMware is used for certain ICS courses.

There are no special privileges required but you must have a local X server running.

From any managed Linux host where virtualbox is installed, you may run `virtualbox`.

Open Jupyterhbu@ICS in your preferred browser.

Login with your ICS username and password.

From the Launcher: select Desktop.

Within the desktop open a Terminal.

You can then ssh to openlab from there:

ssh -Y  USERNAME@openlab.ics.uci.edu

Off campus access requires the UCI VPN.

Prerequisite: Local X server via software such as XQuartz.

You can connect via terminal from your Mac with XQuartz running. Use the -Y option to enable X11 tunneling to your localhost:

The syntax is:

ssh -Y  USERNAME@openlab.ics.uci.edu

Once you sign in with your ICS username and password, VirtualBox is available from /usr/bin/virtualbox.

Off campus access requires ssh keys unless you are using the UCI VPN.

Use an ssh client that has an embedded X-server such as MobaXterm

If you are using MobaXterm, create an ssh session to openlab.ics.uci.edu by clicking on the “Session” icon and then “SSH”.

Basic SSH Settings:

• Remotehost: openlab.ics.uci.edu
• Specify username: YOUR USERNAME

Advanced SSH Settings:

• X11-Forwarding: checked

Once you sign in with your ICS username and password, VirtualBox is available from /usr/bin/virtualbox. Off campus access requires ssh keys unless you are using the UCI VPN.

If you are running another X11 server and SSH client, you can tunnel X11 via ssh by logging into openlab this way:

ssh -Y USERNAME@openlab.ics.uci.edu