HowTo: Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu server 14.04

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I want to install VirtualBox on a headless Ubuntu server (14.04. 3 64bits) host.
I've never done that before in that way, so I'll take notes here.

First of all:
Seems, whatever I'm doing, Falko Timme did it first - and wrote a HowTo about it!
They're usually very excellent. So here's another one:
VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.3 On A Headless Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server

It seems that VirtualBox can be installed from Ubuntu's default repositories (instead of requiring to add the ones from Oracle):

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$ apt-get install virtualbox

According to Information on the VirtualBox website:

Before version 4.0, there were two editions of VirtualBox: a full binary containing all features and an "Open Source Edition" (OSE) with source code. With version 4.0, there is only one version any more, which is open source, and the closed-source components have been moved to a separate extension pack.

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Exporting to "Open Virtualization Format" (.ovf):

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$ VBoxManage export "vm_name" --output VM_CLONE_FILE.ovs

Importing from OVF files:

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$ VBoxManage import VM_CLONE_FILE.ovs

Further notes for headless handling of VirtualBox VMs:

• Create/Manage VirtualBox VMs from the Command Line