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HowToUse/VirtualBox/4.3

_ Install&Setup

_ Install VirtualBox

Step.1
Download the installer(virtualization platform package) from here
Step.2
Run installer|
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Step.3
Setup install folder|
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Step.4
Confirm shortcut option|
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Step.5
Execute install|
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_ HowToUse

_ Create New Virtual Machine

Step.1
Click "New" button and define guest OS
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ItemDescriptionExample
NameName of guest OS"CentOS6.5(64bit)"
TypeType of guest OS"Linux"
VersionVersion of guest OS"Red Hat(64bit)"
Step.2
Specify the memory size for guest OS
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ItemDescriptionExample
Memory SizeMemory allocation size for guest OS"2048MB"
Step.3
Choose default option and click "next" button
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ItemDescriptionExample
Hard driveCheck if you want to create virtual hard drive"Create a virtual hard drive now"(default)
Step.4
Choose default option(VDI) for hard drive file type and click "next" button
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ItemDescriptionExample
Hard drive file typeChoose Hard drive file type (VDI, VMDK, VHD, HDD, QED, QCOW)"VDI"(default)
Step.5
Choose default option(Dynamically allocated) and click "next" button
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ItemDescriptionExample
Storage on Physical hard driveChoose from "Dynamically allocated" or "Fixed size""Dynamically allocated"(default)
Step.6
Set Box file name, location (I recommend to use default location) and choose file size. Then click "create" button. Now you will see new icon for guest OS.
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ItemDescriptionExample
Box File name and location and sizeSet "Box file name and location" and its "size""CentOS 6.5(64bit)", "32GB"
Step.7
Confirm the newly created guest OS icon is selected, click "start" button.
Step.8
Select startup disk(ISO file) and click "start" button.
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ItemDescriptionExample
Startup diskChoose "ISO File""CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1"
Step.9
Run guest OS. And follow the operation for each OS.

_ Setup Network

Step.1
Power-off the Guest OS.
Step.2
Select "Network" menu, "Adapter2" tab and set the parameter as below and Click "OK" button. Remember MAC Address which is necessary for setup network adapter in guest OS.
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ItemDescriptionExample
Enable Network AdapterTRUE
Attached ToHost Only Adapter
NameVirtualBox Host-Only Eathernet Adapter
Step.3
Run Guest OS.
Step.4
Setup Network adapter in Guest OS.

_ Setup Guest Additions

Step.1
Create snapshot.
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Step.1
Login with root.
Step.2
Execute the following command.
# yum install gcc kenel-devel kernel-headers dkms make bzips2
# reboot
Step.3
Login with root and execute the following command.
#export KERN_DIR=/usr/src/kernels/`uname -r`
Step.4
Mount Guest Additions CD Image from "Device"->"Insert Guest Additions CD-Image".
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Step.5
If the auto-run didn't run, right click the CD driver icon and select "Open with Auto-run prompt". After the installation is finished, you can access mouth pointer seamlessly between guest OS and host OS.
Step.6
Eject the "Guest Additions CD-Image" drive.

_ Author

S.Yatsuzuka

Last-modified: 2015-08-17 (Mon) 02:41:34 (3175d)