Install XRDP & VirtualBox Linux Centos7

ignatius arga
2 min readSep 30, 2021

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Guide Step by step installation Desktop and VirtualBox at Linux Centos7

  1. Enable Virtualization on for a Virtual Machine

https://medium.com/@pistol.air32/enable-virtualization-on-virtual-machine-google-cloud-492a32769729

2. Create google cloud instance with image centos7 already created

3. Open Virtual Machine using SSH

4. Configure Virtual Machine :

a. Install Desktop & Utilities

sudo yum update 
sudo yum groupinstall -y “Xfce”
sudo yum install -y firefox htop

b. Install XRDP and configure

sudo yum install -y xrdp 
sudo systemctl enable xrdp
sudo systemctl disable firewalld
echo “xfce4-session” >~/.Xclients
chmod a+x ~/.Xclients

c. Basic security for XRDP

sudo passwd {userid} 
sudo -i
sudo usermod -aG wheel {userid}
sudo reboot

d. Install VirtualBox Prerequisites

sudo yum groupinstall “Development tools” 
sudo yum install kernel-headers qemu-kvm patch gcc kernel-devel make perl

e. Download Latest Version of VirtualBox

Connect via RDP open browser, 
go to VirtualBox website download centos7 .rpm file
Linux_Downloads — Oracle VM VirtualBox

f. Install VirtualBox

start a terminal 
cd Downloads
sudo yum localinstall VirtualBox-[version].rpm
sudo reboot
Version VirtualBox

By PistolAir

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