How to install RemoteBox on Ubuntu 14.04

RemoteBox is a special application that can be used to manage or administering VirtualBox from a remote computer. With RemoteBox we can install, start, stop the virtual machine on VirtualBox host from other computer. Here I want to show you how to install RemoteBox on Ubuntu 14.04. Its pretty easy to install RemoteBox 1.8 (the most recent version) on Ubuntu 14.04 since it’s already integrated in GetDeb repository.

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How to install RemoteBox on Ubuntu 14.04

Open Terminal and paste the following commands

wget -q -O – http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add –
sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu trusty-getdeb apps” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list’
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install remotebox

Done. Now you can use RemoteBox to manage the remote VirtualBox host.

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