Networking at home

VirtualBox has a built in solution for automatically starting and stopping vitual machines, as it is well explained in this post . However, I have a lot of virtual machines, and depending on what I am doing a different set of machines are running. I am not in a critical environment, therefore my vm host is set to automatically install updates, and if needed restart. In order not to loose the virtual machines I have written a small systemd service, which on shutdown saves all running virtual machine states and on restart starts them again.

Oracle VirtualBox runs well on Ubuntu 1604 host, but you should know how to set it up to have a good user experience with it. It this article I will show you 4 pitfalls, and how to avoid them. 1. Default installations fails referring to kernel module failed 2. Can not connect remotely with RDP 3. Windows guest display is flickering/unity menu overlaps guest full screen 4. Can not set second screen to full screen