Create virtual machines from command line
These tools relies on virtualbox which must be installed on the computer. The scripts make use of vboxmanage which is the command line utility of virtualbox.
On debian buster VirtualBox is not officially supported. There are unofficial debian packages on buster which are available, see below :
localadmin@buster:~/vincent/make-vm$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox-unofficial.list
deb [trusted=yes] https://people.debian.org/~lucas/virtualbox-buster/ ./
Here are the required packages :
localadmin@buster:~/vincent/make-vm$ dpkg -l | fgrep virtualbox
ii virtualbox 6.1.14-dfsg-4~~bpo10+1 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
ii virtualbox-dkms 6.1.14-dfsg-4~~bpo10+1 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - kernel module sources for dkms
ii virtualbox-guest-dkms 6.1.14-dfsg-4~~bpo10+1 all x86 virtualization solution - guest addition module source for dkms
ii virtualbox-guest-utils 6.1.14-dfsg-4~~bpo10+1 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - non-X11 guest utilities
ii virtualbox-qt 6.1.14-dfsg-4~~bpo10+1 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface
The script will convert a tar.gz archive to an OVA file.