If the size of your virtual disk inside Virtualbox is not big enough to save all your data you can always increase its size and resize the partition.
First create the virtual machine called myVirtualHost and register it:
VBoxManage createvm --name myVirtualHost --register
Then create a hard disk of 10Gbytes:
VBoxManage createhd --filename myhdd1.vdi -size 10240
This will create the file ~/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/myhdd1.vdi
Add an ide controller and the hard disk:
VBoxManage storagectl myVirtualHost --name "IDE Controller" --add ide VBoxManage modifyvm myVirtualHost --hda .VirtualBox/HardDisks/myhdd1.vdi
You can add more disks with these commands:
VBoxManage modifyvm myVirtualHost --hdb .VirtualBox/HardDisks/myhdd2.vdi VBoxManage storageattach myVirtualHost --storagectl "IDE Controller" --device 1 --port 0 --type hdd --medium .VirtualBox/HardDisks/myhdd3.vdi
Now I will give this machine 512Mbytes of RAM:
VBoxManage modifyvm myVirtualHost --memory 512 --acpi on
You have different network options. If you want to give your virtual machine its own IP addpress you have to use the bridged mode:
VBoxManage modifyvm myVirtualHost --nic1 bridged
If you want to use the same IP address than your host machine you can use NAT. In this case you can configure NAT port forwarding to access to some services, for example with these lines you can access the SSH service of our virtual machine by connecting to the port 2222 from your host.
VBoxManage modifyvm myVirtualHost --nic1 nat VBoxManage modifyvm myVirtualHost --natpf1 "guestssh,tcp,,2222,,22"
To launch the virtual machine and leave it in background you can use one of the following lines:
nohup VBoxHeadless -s myVirtualHost --vnc --vncpass mys3cr3t & nohup VBoxHeadless -s myVirtualHost --vrde off &
The first one will enable VNC and also terminal server.
The second one will disable both, VNC and terminal server.
