Virtualbox is one of the more user-friendly tools when it comes to setting up virtual machines, but let's walk you through your first time.

Just set up the OpenVPN as normal, enable gatewaying on the host, and set up static routes on the guest that go through the host for both the tunnel's subnet and the target's subnet.

For Windows, MacOS, and Linux operating system guests, VirtualBox offers to install Guest Additions. Once up and running, you might need to select the “Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD ...

Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to set up VirtualBox on a headless machine for remote management.

Where USER is the name of the remote admin user and HOST is the IP address of the VirtualBox guest VM. Of course, to make this work via a script, you’ll need to set up SSH key authentication.

Over the years, I've also found that VirtualBox works well no matter what host operating system-Linux, Windows, whatever-I have running under it. Setting up Windows 8 Consumer Preview with VirtualBox ...

But VirtualBox is relatively easy to set up, free to install, and works on all three major operating systems. Setting up ...