Centos On Virtualbox On Windows
As part of my upcoming HowTo tutorials on my blog, I will need to install CentOS 7 on a virtualbox to accomplish this tasks. So for this reason, I will be showing you the fastest way to have a CentOS 7 machine up and running without incurring any cost. Thanks to the awesome work done by the team at OSBoxes, they have done more than 80% of the work for us by providing a ready-to-go VDI Image file for the major Linux Distros and all are up to the latest stable builds.
For those who may not know this, VirtualBox is a free, open source virtualization software that allows users to run multiple operating systems on their machine from within a single machine. In other words, you can spin up multiple virtual machines of any desired OS within minutes of each other as long as the underlining machine machine spec can handle the load.
The PAE/NX feature must be enabled or VirtualBox will not install CentOS. Click on the Settings icon in the toolbar or go to the menu, Machine, Settings In the left hand navigation pane, go to System.
Install CentOS 7 on VritualBox
- First install a VirtualBox on your machine (Windows or Linux)
- Download the latest Virtualbox VDI Image file from OSBoxes. Unzip the file using 7zip to a dedicated folder
Aug 14, 2017 I'm running VirtualBox on Windows 7, and trying to set up Centos 7 1611 everything iso as a VM. The main objectives here are to: 1. To learn how to do it. To end up with a straightforward and reliable set of instructions to follow 3.instructions that aid understanding of what I. Install CentOS 7 on VritualBox. Download the latest Virtualbox VDI Image file from OSBoxes. On Next, select “Use an existing virtual hard disk file”. Click the small folder icon and navigate to the image file directory where you unzipped it to. Next login with the password provided. Just go to: File Settings in VirtualBox where you’ll see a Default Machine Folder field on the General tab. If you don’t like where the virtual machine information is, click Other in the drop-down menu to change it. HOW TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL CENTOS ON VIRTUALBOX IN WINDOWS 10. Finally, the long-awaited CentOS 7 is released!
Please ONLY use these image files for testing purposes and not on a LIVE environment
- Start your Virtualbox > Click on New and Enter details as follows
- Name: Enter name for your machine
- Type: Select Linux
- Version: Select Red Hat (64bit) or Red Hat (32bit) depending on the Image file version downloaded earlier
- On Next, enter desired memory size (recommend 1024mb)
- On Next, select “Use an existing virtual hard disk file”. Click the small folder icon and navigate to the image file directory where you unzipped it to. Click Create
- Start the virtual machine > Ensure the first option as seen below is select
- Next login with the password provided when you downloaded the image file. Its usually “osboxes.org”
- Click on your desired Language / Keyboard Layout
- You can skip the sign-in bit and start using your OS
Install Guest Additions On CentOS 7
- You need to install the Guest Additions to allow you move your mouse freely between your VM and your physical desktop machine and also resize the VM desktop resolution.
Note: To move your mouse put of the VM desktop, simply press the following keys on your keyboard once at the same time “AltGr” + “Ctrl” (both keys on your right hand side)
- Let’s start. Open your terminal and change to root user
- Update to latest kernel
- Install following packages
- Mount the Guest Additions CD by clicking on Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image. Cancel the promt displayed
- Run the following commands
- Reboot the machine and you should now be able to move your mouse between the screens. As seen also, the scrollbar at the edge of the screen now gone
Change Root Password on CentOS 7
- First change to root user
- Run the following command and enter new password
Acpi fuj02bf driver windows 10. Once you have installed different operating systems in Oracle VirtualBox, you may want to enable communication between the host and the virtual machines.
In this article, we will describe the simplest and direct method of setting up a network for guest virtual machines and the host in Linux.
For the purpose of this tutorial:
- Host Operating System – Linux Mint 18
- Virtual Machine OS – CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.10
Requirements
- A working Oracle Virtualbox installed on Host machine.
- You must have installed a guest operating system such as Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Linux Mint or any of your choice in the Oracle virtual box.
- Power off the virtual machines as you perform the configurations up to the step where your required to turn them on.
In order for the guest and host machines to communicate, they need to be on the same network and by default, you can attach up to four network cards to your guest machines.
The default network card (Adapter 1) is normally used to connect the guest machines to the Internet using NAT via the host machine.
Important: Always set the first adapter to communicate with the host and the second adapter to connect to the Internet.
Create a Network For Guests and Host Machine
At the Virtualbox manager interface below, start by creating a network on which the host and guests will operate.
Go to File –> Preferences or hit Ctrl + G:
From the following interface, there are two options; choose Host-only Networks by clicking on it. Then use the + sign on the right to add a new host-only network.
Set Guest Network
Below is a screen shot showing a new host-only network has been created called vboxnet0.
If you want, you can remove it by using the - button in the middle and to view the network details/settings, click on the edit button.
You can as well change the values as per your preferences, such as the network address, network mask, etc.
Note: The IPv4 address in the interface below is the IP address of your host machine.
Host Network Details
In the next interface, you can configure the DHCP server that is if you want the guest machines to use a dynamic IP address (make sure it is enabled before using it). But I recommend using a static IP address for the virtual machines.
Now click OK on all network settings interfaces below to save the changes.
Configure Virtual Machine Network Settings
Note: You can follow the steps below for every virtual machine that you want to add on the network to communicate with the host machine.
Back at the virtual box manager interface, select your guest virtual machine such as Ubuntu 16.10 server or CentOS 7 and click on the Settings menu.
Configure VM Settings
Configure Adapter to Connect Virtual Machine to Host
Choose the Network option from the interface above. Afterwards, configure first network card (Adapter 1) with the following settings:
- Check the option: “Enable Network Adapter” to turn it on.
- In the field Attached to: select Host-only Adapter
- Then select the Name of the network: vboxnet0
As in the screen shot below and click OK to save the settings:
Configure Adapter to Connect Virtual Machine to Internet
Then add a second network card (Adapter 2) to connect virtual machine to the Internet via the host. Use the settings below:
- Check the option: “Enable Network Adapter” to activate it.
- In the field Attached to: select NAT
Enable Network Adapter for VM
Setup Static IP Address for Guest Virtual Machine
At this stage, power on the guest virtual machine, login and configure static IP address. Run the command below to show all the interfaces on the guest machine and allocated IP addresses:
From the screen shot above, you can see that there are three interfaces enabled on the virtual machine:
lo– loopback interfaceenp0s3(Adapter 1) – for host-only communication which is using the DHCP as set in one of the previous steps and later configured with a static IP address.enp0s8(Adapter 2) – for connection to the Internet. It will use DHCP by default.
On Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint
Important: Here, I used Ubuntu 16.10 Server: IP address: 192.168.56.5.
Open the file /etc/network/interfaces using your favorite editor with super user privileges:
Use the following settings for the interface enp0s3 (use your preferred values here):
Save the file and exit.
Then restart network services like so:
Alternatively, reboot the system and closely, check if the interface is using the new ip addresses:
On RHEL/CentOS/Fedora
Important: For this section, I used CentOS 7: IP address: 192.168.56.10.
Begin by opening the file for enp0s3 – host-only network interface; /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3 using your favorite editor with super user privileges:
Create/modify the following settings (use your preferred values here):
Save the file and exit. Then restart network service as follows (you can as well reboot):
Check if the interface is using the new IP addresses as follows:
Manage Virtual Machines From Host Using SSH
Install Centos On Virtualbox Windows
On the host machine, use SSH to manage your virtual machines. In the following example, am accessing the CentOS 7 (192.168.56.10)server using SSH:
Connect Guest VM using SSH
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That’s it! In this post, we described a straightforward method of setting up a network between a guest virtual machines and the host. Do share your thoughts about this tutorial using the feedback section below.