User:Bourke/VirtualboxUbuntuGuiSandbox
Copying and Cloning[edit]
Good Article is Copying and Cloning VirtualBox VMs
Copy (from one machine to another)[edit]
copy hard disk (vdi file) as normal with rsync. Need to recreate Virtual Machine in the Gui. Snapshots are not allowed
[edit]
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[edit]
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
Windows7 Server Guest OS[edit]
Install Media =[edit]
- from EDV - licensed via domain controller
- Guest Additions. Download via Menu / Internet works ok
Setup =[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Java 6 JDK
- Postgres 8.1 - 8.4
- PGadmin3
guestadditions (required for shared clipboard, folder sharing)
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)
Now make a backup and use as a clone template