Automatização na configuração de rede em virtual appliances para VirtualBox

Abstract

The recent advances in the area of virtualization have motivated the creation of virtual appliances, which are sets of software formed by a virtual machine with a minimum operating system, associated with specific applications. The use of virtual appliances has several advantages, eliminating cost and complexity of installation, testing, configuration and maintenance of applications. This work focuses on the process of configuring multiple virtual appliances targeted to VirtualBox virtualization technologies. Such process usually requires repetitive tasks, so our approach was to analyze configuration steps and look for tasks that could be carried out automatically. During this work, we developed a configuration tool named VirtAK, aimed to facilitate the network configuration process for multiple virtual appliances.