Keys are Mount VBoxGuestAdditions.iso in Storage: CDRom under settings for the VM – only then will this file show up on the Ubuntu client then: sudo bash ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Read this how write-up it is good and complete Also need to add group to user trying to access the share – root will have permissions by …
cd into the directory that VirtualBox is installed in and run this: .\VBoxManage modifyvm your-vm-name –nested-hw-virt on I also had to do the following: Go to Windows Control Panel (you can find it in the search box lower left side next to start button – type Control Panel) pick Programs and Features pick Windows Features …
VirtualBox supports the following types of adapters (and others) that I use frequently for many VMs. Bridged Adapter – Makes the VirtualBox VM part of your local network. Host-Only-Adapter – Makes the VirtualBox VM part of a virtual network on the VM Host. NAT – Can get out to the network – but your IP is …
Vagrant from scratch to create your own local boxes – VirtualBox based – and use them with Chef part 1. I spin up a lot of virtualboxes, why? I’m a combo Linux Admin & Oracle DBA & Developer with skills that I try to keep current across many technologies LAMP etc. too. I got tired …
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Creating and using a virtual box snapshot (revert back to a previous snapshot) Create a snapshot Wile the VM is running – pick Machine->Take Snapshot – be verbose in the description Use the snapshot Make sure the VM is SHUTDOWN Select your VM in the left pane of VirtualBox – you’ll see your snapshots in …
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Service Setup yum install tigervnc-server cd /etc/sysconfig cp -p vncserver vncserver.old vi vncserver I add the following lines to the config file /etc/sysconfig/vncservers. **** careful with the quotes – they maybe Windows style… if you are copying into Linux etc. VNCSERVERS=”1:root 2:oracle” VNCSERVERARGS[1]=”-geometry 1440×900″ VNCSERVERARGS[2]=”-geometry 1440×900″ chkconfig –list chkconfig vncserver on service vncserver start Because …
How To Get the Missing / Hidden VirtualBox Menu Bar Back press HostKey + <HOME> In my case and the default HostKey is RightControlKey.
When I try to install vbox guest additions on Oracle Linux 6.8 Failed to set up service vboxadd, please check the log file /var/log/VBoxGuestAdditions.log for details. There are many ways to fix this – here’s one way that works for me with Oracle Linux 6.8 cd /etc/yum.repos.d wget http://yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo yum install gcc yum install make …
RHEL 6 Manually Creating A Logical Volume And Auto Mounting It As Ext4 for a device that has been added to your VM and not previously used. The device should already be allocated and should show up with no other “fdisk’ed” devices on it – for this example (see my By The Way note immediately …
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I used VirtualBox (Oracle’s Desktop VM) and CentOS 6.8 for this post. So, yes we could do this ASM install with Oracle’s asmlib rpms… but what if your company won’t allow that? Then udev will work, and it’s just about as easy – well neither method is really simple – but not too bad. Installed …
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