Difference between revisions of "EBC Exercise 06 Notes on VirtualBox"

Revision as of 16:08, 20 December 2010

Here's some things I learned installing VirtualBox.

TI's notes

Here is how TI suggests setting up VirtualBox.

My Notes

• Download from here.
• Install as usual. I made no changes on the Custom Setup page. I got the following message some 9 times. I clicked continue.

• Start VirtualBox. Click New.

• Run the wizard and give your machine a name.

• I used 1024M for the memory size. Make sure your host computer has at least 2 times the real RAM as the virtual machine.

• Select Use existing hard disk and click

• Click and select your virtual drive.

• Click Select, Next, Finish.
• Click
• Got to the Devices menu and select Install Guest Additions....

• Select Applications:Accessoris:Terminal from the menu.

• cd to /media/cdrom0 and run the file for your machine.

• Reboot your virtual machine.
• You can now resize your virtual machine screen.