Deploy with VirtualBox

A pre-installed LabxDB image for Oracle VM VirtualBox is available to easily run LabxDB. It provides a fully functional LabxDB based on the ArchLinux operating system.

Start virtual machine

To get the LabxDB virtual machine running:

  1. Install VirtualBox
  2. Download the LabxDB virtual machine labxdb.ova
  3. Import LabxDB virtual machine as explained in VirtualBox manual
  4. Start LabxDB virtual machine

Connect to LabxDB

The LabxDB web interface should be available at http://localhost:8081.

Configure the virtual machine

To admin the virtual, SSH server is running on the virtual machine. To connect using SSH client:

ssh -p 8022 root@127.0.0.1

The pre-configured root password is archadmin.

NoteThe LabxDB virtual machine is created using i) the script arch_install.sh to install ArchLinux and ii) the script labxdb_install.sh to install LabxDB and its dependencies. These scripts are available in the contrib/virt folder of LabxDB repository. Please refer to these scripts for details about the virtual machine setup.
Last modification: May 26, 2020