How to Install New Apple Desktop operating system macOS Sierra on VirtualBox. Install macOS Sierra 10. 12 on VirtualBox. Installing macOS on VirtualBox. How to Install Oracle VM Virtual. Box and Create a Virtual Machine. Oracle VM Virtual. Box is an open source virtualization software that you can install on various x. 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 Oracle VM Virtual. Box is similar to VMware. Oracle got this Virtual. Box 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 How to Create VMware Virtual Machine and Install Guest OS using v. Sphere Client. 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 Virtual. Box. Guest The machines created using Virtual. Box. Virtual Machine Guest Additions A set of software components, which comes with Virtual. Box to improve the Guest performance and also to provide some additional features. Installing Virtual. Box. This article explains how to install Virtual. Box on a Debian based system. First, add any one of the following mirrors based on your distribution in etcaptsources. Next, download the public key and register with apt key for signature verificationwget q http download. O sudo apt key add Finally, installing Virtual. Box as shown below. After successful installation a command named virtualbox will be created. Also you can access Virtual. Box from Application System Tools menu. Creating a Virtual Machine For Guest OSOpen Application System Tools Virtual. Box Command name is virtualbox Click Machine New. This will launch a Create New Virtual Machine wizard. Click Next. 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 1. GB then, in host machine by default under. Virtual. BoxGuest MachineGuest Machine. GB of size. If we select Dynamic storage then,. Virtual. BoxGuest MachineGuest Machine. 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. Virtual. BoxGuest MachineClick 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 DVDThrough ISO image of the OSHere 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 CDDVD 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 CDDVD 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. Click Ok. Now select the virtual machine, and click Start. It will start to boot from the CDDVD 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. If you enjoyed this article, you might also like.
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