Install RemoteBox 1.6 with Virtualbox 4.3.x support in Ubuntu

Virtualbox 4.3 has been released few days ago with many great new features and performance improvements. Now remotebox 1.6 adds support for Virtualbox 4.3.x. Here’s how to install it on Ubuntu & Linux Mint.

As you may know, RemoteBox is an open source VirtualBox Client with Remote Management feature. It allows you to administer an installation of VirtualBox residing on another machine such as a server, as if it was installed locally. You can also interact with the displays of the guests. This allows you to treat VirtualBox much more like an installation of Xen, KVM or VMware ESX. A summary of some of the features of RemoteBox are listed below.

What’s New in RemoteBox 1.6:

This version brings VirtualBox 4.3.x support and drops support for the VirtualBox 4.2.x branch
Rebased from GTK 2.22 to GTK 2.24 as a minimum requirement
Default rdesktop preference now enables guest sound support and clipboard sharing.
rdesktop -r sound:local -r clipboard:PRIMARYCLIPBOARD -T “%n – RemoteBox” %h:%p
Added preference to automatically add the VBoxAdditions.iso to the Virtual Media Manager when connecting to a server.
Added USB Multi-Touch pointing device support
Added RemoteBox preference to set the default RDP Port range for new guests
Added Discard Saved State toolbutton and menu option
Added Clear Connection History menu item to the File menu
Added configuration evaulation option to the tools menu of the edit settings dialog. It evaluates the current guest settings and makes recommendations.
Added support for attaching SCSI and SAS CD/DVDs to guests
Added auto-hint resolution option to preferences
Refreshed guest operating system icons
Now sets the default RDP port range for new guests created with RemoteBox to 3389-4389, instead of a random port. This makes firewall configuration easier and VirtualBox will automatically use the next free port to avoid conflicts
Fixed exception when reading an empty or non-existant guest log
Fixed double-line spacing when showing huest logs from Windows servers
Fixed a bug when releasing DVD or Floppy media from the VMM. It no longer removes the virtual floppy or dvd drive, but just ejects the floppy or dvd image.
Fixed several bugs when editing the host-only networks – some outdated API calls were being used which generated an exception
Fixed some path handling bugs affecting Windows
Moved hardware virtualization exlusive option from guest settings to the VirtualBox preferences as it’s now a global option in VirtualBox
Dropped WinMM audio. Guests using this will automatically be mapped to the Null audio driver and can’t be manually changed to DirectSound if required
Various GUI tweaks and code optimisations