Create a configuration file in /etc/default/ sudo nano /etc/default/virtualbox then add VBOXAUTOSTART_DB=/etc/vbox VBOXAUTOSTART_CONFIG=/etc/vbox/autostart.cfg Then create a configuration file in /etc/vbox/ sudo nano /etc/vbox/autostart.cfg then add default_policy = deny # Create an entry for each user allowed to use autostart myusername = { allow = true } sudo chgrp vboxusers /etc/vbox sudo chmod 1775 /etc/vbox sudo usermod -aG vboxusers USERNAME VBoxManage setproperty autostartdbpath /etc/vbox Use the following command to get a list of available vms vboxmanage list vms Create a file with <username>.start on /etc/vbox sudo touch /etc/vbox/username.start sudo chown username /etc/vbox/username.start Restart the virtualbox service for changes to take effect sudo systemctl restart vboxautostart-service Specify the virtual machine that will be set to autostart VBoxManage modifyvm <uuid|vmname> --autostart-enabled <
Phpmyadmin installation with the following command sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin after installation, create a symbolic link to phpmyadmin contents sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/html/phpmyadmin update configuration file /etc/nginx/sites-available/default location ~ \. php $ { include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; } location /phpmyadmin { index index.php index.html index.htm; root /usr/share; } restart nginx service sudo systemctl reload nginx now we can access phpmyadmin via http://example.com/phpmyadmin For the latest version installation, download the file using wget wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/4.7.9/phpMyAdmin-4.7.9-all-languages.tar.gz You will need to unpack it with by using tar command tar xvf phpMyAdmin-4.7.9-all-languages.tar.gz move the extract file to /usr/share/phpmyadmin , and now