Installing Virtualbox on a headless server

Had to install VirtualBox in a jiffy on a server, a totally quick and dirty thing to get a couple of things tested. The CentOS server in question did not had an internet connection, so all the RPM packages I wgeted are downloaded to another box, and rsynced to the CentOS server for installation.

Here are the steps I took...
The CentOS server was running:

CentOS release 4.2 (Final)
Linux centosserver.something.something 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Jan 17 07:10:04 CST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

First off, the VirtualBox dependency:

# rpm -ivh xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm SDL-1.2.7-8.i386.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:SDL                    ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU   ########################################### [100%]

And then, the VirtualBox package itself:

# rpm -ivh VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.4_57640_rhel4-1.i386.rpm 
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:VirtualBox-3.1         ########################################### [100%]
warning: only V3 signatures can be verified, skipping V4 signature

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.

Success!

Add a regular user to the vboxuser group:
usermod -G vboxusers regular.user.who.can.use.virtualbox

The test does not work at all (as expected, actually):

$ VirtualBox &
[1] 31929
$ Failed to open the X11 display!

So, onto to install a X11 working environment:

# rpm --test -ivh xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm 
error: Failed dependencies:
        xorg-x11 is needed by xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386
    Suggested resolutions:
        xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm

# rpm --test -ivh xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386
        /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth is needed by xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386
        /usr/sbin/chkfontpath is needed by xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386
        base-fonts is needed by xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386
        xinitrc is needed by xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386
        xorg-x11-xfs = 6.8.2-1.EL.13.20 is needed by xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386
    Suggested resolutions:
        chkfontpath-1.10.0-2.i386.rpm
        fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm
        xinitrc-4.0.14-1.noarch.rpm
        xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm
        xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm

wget http://vault.centos.org/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/chkfontpath-1.10.0-2.i386.rpm && \
wget http://vault.centos.org/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm && \
wget http://vault.centos.org/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/xinitrc-4.0.14-1.noarch.rpm && \
wget http://vault.centos.org/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm && \
wget http://vault.centos.org/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm

chkfontpath-1.10.0-2.i386.rpm fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm xinitrc-4.0.14-1.noarch.rpm xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm 

# rpm --test -ivh chkfontpath-1.10.0-2.i386.rpm fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm xinitrc-4.0.14-1.noarch.rpm xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm  xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm 
error: Failed dependencies:
        switchdesk >= 3.7 is needed by xinitrc-4.0.14-1.noarch
        /usr/bin/ttmkfdir is needed by xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386
    Suggested resolutions:
        switchdesk-4.0.6-3.noarch.rpm
        ttmkfdir-3.0.9-14.1.EL.i386.rpm


wget http://vault.centos.org/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/switchdesk-4.0.6-3.noarch.rpm && \
wget http://vault.centos.org/4.2/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-14.1.EL.i386.rpm

# rpm -ivh chkfontpath-1.10.0-2.i386.rpm fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1.1-1.EL.1.noarch.rpm xinitrc-4.0.14-1.noarch.rpm xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm  xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.20.i386.rpm switchdesk-4.0.6-3.noarch.rpm ttmkfdir-3.0.9-14.1.EL.i386.rpmPreparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:xorg-x11-font-utils    ########################################### [ 10%]
   2:ttmkfdir               ########################################### [ 20%]
   3:xorg-x11-xfs           ########################################### [ 30%]
   4:chkfontpath            ########################################### [ 40%]
   5:fonts-xorg-base        ########################################### [ 50%]
   6:switchdesk             ########################################### [ 60%]
   7:xorg-x11-xauth         ########################################### [ 70%]
   8:xorg-x11               ########################################### [ 80%]
   9:xinitrc                ########################################### [ 90%]
  10:xorg-x11-tools         ########################################### [100%]