User:Bourke/VirtualboxUbuntuGuiSandbox

Copying and Cloning
Good Article is Copying and Cloning VirtualBox VMs

Copy (from one machine to another)
copy hard disk (vdi file) as normal with rsync. Need to recreate Virtual Machine in the Gui. Snapshots are not allowed

Setup Shared Folder
Ubuntu Community Documentation SharedFolders

Done: added share in VirtualBoxManage on hostOS:

username@guestOShostname:~$ sudo mount -t vboxsf share /mnt/hostshare /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device

Still open:

username@guestOShostnam:~$ sudo mount -t vboxsf share /mnt/hostshare /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device

UBuntu Guest OS
Setup Virtualbox as follows

Name: Ubuntu_10_02_Gui_Sandbox_32Bigt Virtual Memory: default (384 MB) Create new harddisk size 8192 mb autogrow name:

ubuntu livecd in cddrive, english install, germankeyboad, complete disk

after install, sudo apt-get upgrade to fetch the latest versions

Install Media

 * from EDV - licensed via domain controller
 * Guest Additions. Download via Menu / Internet works ok

Setup

 * Network: currently at default (NAT). Needs non-default setup to discover domain controller?)
 * Display: just reset monitor size from control panel and the windows resizes automatically
 * Windows Update: Yes, important updates / security patches only
 * Browser Selection. Default (IE9?)

Then add

 * Java 6 JDK
 * Postgres 8.1 - 8.4
 * PGadmin3

guestadditions (required for shared clipboard, folder sharing)

Guest_additions_install

install from ubuntu repositories (onto guest OS, not host OS)

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-additions

(this rebuilds the kernel to run vbox, reboot after this) sudo mkdir /media/cdimage sudo mount -o loop /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso /media/cdimage

cd /media/cdimage

sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

following additional packages installed as standard

sun java

(and openjdk deinstall)

and a normal postgres setup

Now make a backup and use as a clone template