The extension pack adds the new features and capabilities to the VirtualBox. It supports for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP, disk encryption, NVMe and PXE boot for Intel cards.
I am looking to install OS X Server 10.6 as a guest under Virtualbox on my iMac running OS X 10.6. Wondering if there are any caveats or issues regarding the hardware or the installation process. The Virtualbox manual was vague in regards to their warnings. Is running an OS X Server guest restricted to an OS X Server host?
Or can the host be the regular Snow Leopard client? Currently having the following issue during the initial install: Loading machkernel.mkext.
Could not open file 'machkernel.mkext'. IMac is 3GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 Gb RAM, iMac 10,1. While I can't make any suggestions on the technical aspect, legally speaking this set up is fine. Mac OS X is only supposed to be installed on Apple hardware, but there is no distinction between Apple servers and desktop models - indeed, with the withdrawal of the Xserve, there is no physical difference between Apple server and desktop models other than lack of DVD drives and the software they ship with.
If you buy it separately, OSX Server perfectly capable of being installed on most Macs - 10.5 and below even allowed installation on labtop models.
Oracle VM VirtualBox is an open source virtualization software that you can install on various x86 systems. You can install Oracle VM Virtualbox on top of Windows, Linux, Mac, or Solaris. Once you install the virtualbox, you can create virtual machines that can be used to run guest operating systems like Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc. On a high-level is similar to VMware. Oracle got this VirtualBox technology from Sun.
This article cover the basic installation of virtualbox and how to install a guest OS on it. If you are interested in VMware, use this guide:. The following are the basic terms you should be aware of before we go further:. Host – The physical machine where you are going to install VirtualBox. Guest – The machines created using VirtualBox. ( Virtual Machine ).
Guest Additions – A set of software components, which comes with VirtualBox to improve the Guest performance and also to provide some additional features. Installing VirtualBox This article explains how to install VirtualBox on a Debian based system.
First, add any one of the following mirrors based on your distribution in /etc/apt/sources.lst deb oneiric contrib deb natty contrib deb maverick contrib non-free deb lucid contrib non-free deb karmic contrib non-free deb hardy contrib non-free deb squeeze contrib non-free deb lenny contrib non-free Next, download the public key and register with apt-key for signature verification. Wget -q -O- sudo apt-key add - Finally, installing VirtualBox as shown below. Sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install dkms sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1 After successful installation a command named “virtualbox” will be created. Also you can access VirtualBox from “Application - System Tools” menu.
Creating a Virtual Machine ( For Guest OS) Open Application - System Tools - VirtualBox ( Command name is “virtualbox” ) Click Machine - New. This will launch a “Create New Virtual Machine” wizard. Enter the name of the Guest machine as you desire and choose the Operating system and Version that you are planning to install as follows, and click “Next”. Enter the RAM size that you want to provide to your Guest machine as follows. Now it will ask you to choose your “Virtual Hard Disk” for installing the guest OS as follows.
Since this is the first time we are installing, click “Create New Hard disk”. Create “New Virtual Disk” wizard will open.
Click Next Now we need to choose, whether the disk has to be “Dynamically expanding disk” or “Fixed-size storage”. Remember, for a guest machine, it sees a file residing in the host machine as the “Hard Disk”. Whenever a guest machine does any write to disk, it will be written into the file which resides on the host machine If we select “Fixed storage” and if we choose the size as 10GB then, in host machine ( by default under.VirtualBox/Guest-Machine/Guest-Machine.vdi ) a file will be created with 10GB of size If we select “Dynamic storage” then,.VirtualBox/Guest-Machine/Guest-Machine.vdi will initially be a small size file, but it will grow whenever the guest machine writes data to the disk. Choose “Dynamic storage” and click Next. Enter the maximum size that you want to allocate for the guest machine.
Click Finish. Now a file named “Guest-Machine.vdi” will be created under “.VirtualBox/Guest-Machine/” Click “Finish” to complete the creation of Virtual Machine. Now a new “Virtual Machine” is created and it will be in “power off” state. Installing OS in a Virtual machine We can install any OS ( personally tested windows and linux ) on a virtual machine. We can install the OS in virtual machine by 2 methods. Through OS-DVD.
Through ISO image of the OS Here we will cover the installation using an ISO image, although using DVD is very similar to this. Make sure that the iso file of your distribution is present in the host machine. Launch “virtualbox”. Select the newly created virtual machine. Click “Settings”.
Now a new window will open which will list out the settings group on left panel and actual setting on the right side as follows. Select “System”. On the right panel ensure that the boot order is correct ( Similar to setting the boot order in BIOS ). Use the “Move Up” or “Move Down” button button to change the boot order, and make sure CD/DVD is selected as the “First boot device” and click “Ok”. The next step is to map the “ISO file” of your distribution to the virtual CD/DVD device. Under “Settings” go to “Storage”, the following screen will appear.
Click the “CD icon” and choose the “iso file of the OS”, here I used “Debian-Lenny”. The following screen will appear once you have choosen the ISO file. Now select the virtual machine, and click “Start”. It will start to boot from the CD/DVD which is mapped to the ISO file. The OS installation is similar to installing an OS in a physical machine. Once OS is installed successfully, change the “Boot Order” to boot from HDD, and click “Start”. Now you can start using the virtual machine as like other machines.
@addison I seem to recall a blurb that currently you can only install 32-bit versions of Linux OS in a WIndows 7 VirtualBox. This may also be true for Vista. @Will I found installing VirtualBox on Windows 7 to be straightforward. Download the exe file (currently 4.1.8) and run it.
I agree a tutorial would be nice. I would also like to see a tutorial on “Exporting and Importing”.
I have a few log-ons on my Win. 7 and it looks like I installed VirtualBox twice (for 2 Win. One uses a separate partition for the virtual machines (which is what I want) and the other installed the virtual machines in its partition (rather than in the separate partition). Trying to read through the humongous PDF is trying to say the least. Another discussion would be nice is reading the VDI file under Windows (or setting up a “shared directory” for data exchange).
@tarun It depends on which OS you want to install. Windows – you need to have the OS CDs/DVDs (unless they happen to have a “Preview” available (usually for a new release and then limited time – like a trial). Assuming you have the CDs/DVDs, just pop them into the DVD unit like you would install Windows in a real machine.
Start your VM (assuming you have created one at this point) and then follow the procedure to install the OS. There is a project called “ReactOS”, which is creating a clone of Windows XP and is free.
You can download the “.iso” file and either burn it to a CD/DVD or install from where you downloaded the ISO. Apple – I will leave that to someone else as I have never used a Mac. Linux – there are many Linux distributions. See: which lists all (or most) of them. Some of the more popular are Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Ubuntu variations (Mint being one), Debian (“base” for Ubuntu and variants), SLAX, OPpen SUSE, Fedora, etc. Again, you can install them into the VM the same as described for Windows. If you scroll down a little ways at distrrowatch.com, you will see a list of the top 100 “distros”.
Clicking on one, will take you to a description and download link to for that particular distro. Of course, you can always Google for a specific one too. Nearly all are free downloads. One thing to note is when you “Start” the VM to install, you will see on the Menu Bar of the VM “Machine, View, Devices, Help”. If you click on “Devices”, you will get a drop-down list with CD/DVD Devices at the top. Selecting that option will show at least 2 entries – 1. Choose a virtual CD/DVD file, 2.
Host Drive ‘x:’ (where x: is your real CD/DVD drive. By choosing the first option, you can navigate to the directory where you downloaded the ISO file and select it. It will then be booted as if it were on a CD/DVD. Depending upon the state of the VM you created, you may have to restart if you can’t reboot immediately after selecting an ISO file rather than an actual CD/DVD.
One last point. VirtualBox not only supports Mac OS X, but also 64-bit Guest OSes.
Section 3.1.2 of the current VirtualBox release (4.2.16) discusses the caveats. @Tarun You can set up a “shared” folder to pass files back and forth. You need to make it shared on Windows and when you set up your guest machine. For example, I have a couple of Linux guests (Windows 7 is the host) and when you click on the VirtualBix settings, at the bottom,l you will see an entry for “Shared Folders”. You can point the entry for this setting to the “shared” Windows folder (in my case) and I have it set to “automount = yes” and “access = full”. On Windows, you need to click on the properties for the “shared” folder and make it shared (I made it fully shareable for everyone).
Hi, I have WIndows7 32 bit as a host OS in C drive. And i have installed the Virtualbox in D drive and installed CentOS 6 in virtual box as a guest OS.
After installing the Guest Additions in CentOS and set the Drg n Drop-Bidirectional. It permits to create shared folder in CentOS but i am not able to drag n drop to any file from host to guest and vice versa. Also when i plug the pendrive it copy the partially data in guest OS then it show unpluggeed automatically in guest OS. It copy only.rpm file in guest OS (CentOS) please suggest how to copy the file from Host OS to guest OS and vice versa. And how to use share folder.