This page has been live for a long time. Sun Microsystems bought Innotek the authors of Virtual Box, an opensource virtualisation product in 2008. It permits Windows\/Linux\/Solaris guests on the same operating system. I probably started this page slightly later, my first oracle blog on it was dated May 2008. It mainly describes any guest installation tricks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have not been systematic in how I document my virtual box projects, some are on this page, some have their own articles, they should all be tagged; https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/tag\/virtual-box<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The shared folder manager script has been uploaded to git, see https:\/\/github.com\/dfl1955\/vboxtools<\/a>, just in time to be replaced by An article in the Register made me think there might be some interest in this; but it isn’t easy partly because I have forgotten a lot about Solaris. The Guest Additions use pkgadd and pkgrm ( documentation<\/a> +1<\/a> | my script<\/a> | VBox Forums thread<\/a> ). The binaries are old and there is a problem with X integration<\/a>, someone recommended<\/a> using an older version of the guest additions, i.e. 6.1.8, but this too fails, so I am trying 6,1,10<\/a>, there was no dot nine. Oracle have the old VB builds online<\/a>, and the 6.1.10 directory tree is also available. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n We need an intel version of Raspbian, to be found here<\/a>. How to install instructions<\/a>, the guest additions are available as a package allegedly. My first version seems to have a strange panel which doesn’t display to the screen properly; it needs some work, so much that I made a second VM which I did not find nor install the vbox guest additions. I use RDP to connect to the VM. See also install raspbian desktop on a VB virtual machine<\/a> from roboticsbackend. The VM needs ssh turned on via raspi-config, the default is off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See my haiku os page<\/a> on this wiki<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now Ubuntu 22, check what I say elsewhere<\/a> o this blog. I have amended my mount shares script, to meet my current standards; see my git repo<\/a>. I came across the panic on boot feature, this thread<\/a> at the Virtual Box forums helped me out; #CPUs := 2, and another on video ram >= 64Mb<\/a>. to resolve the freeze on screenlock feature. I needed to install And this sort of nonsense is why I gave up on it; it needs System:Enable EFI = true to be set otherwise the screen display is too small to run the graphic installer; there is a warning that the OS may freeze or hang on virtual hardware. It also doesn’t display the vm managament menu, on some of the views. So I needed to reset the Host button<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I decided to make a guest of Elive 3.0.6<\/a>. This is currently much slower than I want. The install suggested I needed 15Gb, although after asking for the uninstall of Libre Office and WINE, it fitted into 4GB. TCL\/TK may now be missing, but easy enough to fix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The screen is not behaving, and when I tried to install the guest additions, it reported that they were already installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have found my Snow Leopard disk, let’s see what happens with this. I made another page<\/a> for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes, to act as an applications host; this might once have been useful<\/a> , as might this from MS Community Answers<\/a> and this might be the ISO source.<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, really! I want to see if I can rescue Superproject. This video,“Windows 98 Second Edition – Installation in Virtualbox”<\/a> is a good start point. Since VB post dates W98, the Guest Additons are a bit crap, and so my researches take me to this page on the ubuntu forums<\/a>, which points at Sci-Tech Display Doctor version 7 beta, the .iso is here, and instructions are here<\/a>. Auto capture is not in place, except for the keyboard. In May 2020, when tranferring the image to my 2nd Laptop (W10), I found this video<\/a> on the subject. I also found this article which includes a section on networking<\/a>, one has to install the hardware driver. When I am ready, how to change the wall paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This can install via yum has been replaced by dnf, My most common host is Windows, currently W11<\/a>. I have thought about managing virtual box from the command line using shell. I developed this program<\/a> to extend the path so that the the shell can execute the vbox management programs. It has been most useful for installing icons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have some naming problems on my VB host. Openfire insists that its name for the conference server is part of the login string and I don’t propagate the names of virtual machines around my home network. My work round is to hardcode the server name in the connection string on the client side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mongodb, cannot unfortunately be mounted on an incoming shared folder, nor (more obviously) on a mounted NFS disk, less sure about SMB. See here…<\/a> on google groups\/vagrant<\/p>\n\n\n\n I found this<\/a>, by Derek Molloy very useful. You extend the disk using And onto U24. This is different and so took some finding. The interface now works, but the mount points need to be accessible by the user account i.e. I used I have had a method for several years; it was based on the documentation for Linux Guests<\/b>, see Help with Shared Folders VB 3.0.6<\/a> at http:\/\/forums.virtualbox.org.<\/a> Using the -o flag allows mounting as a non root user. Each host will have a folder, that will be mounted on \/host. This requires a script in \/usr\/local\/bin, invoked by rc.local.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Sept 2011<\/i>, I had another look at this and re-wrote the To mount the cdrom if you are using a server edition,<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have written some scripts to mount shared folders on Ubuntu and uploaded them there, and on the Virtual Box Forums in this thread<\/a>. , thi is now held in my vbooxtools repo<\/a> on github. Your user[s] need<\/a> to be members of the vboxsf group, the repo now has a script that does this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At some point I fixed this to work under systemd but it seems as of July 2026, this is not required. <\/p>\n\n\n\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This page has been live for a long time. Sun Microsystems bought Innotek the authors of Virtual Box, an opensource virtualisation product in 2008. It permits Windows\/Linux\/Solaris guests on the same operating system. I probably started this page slightly later, my first oracle blog on it was dated May 2008. 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Guests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Open Solaris<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Raspbian Desktop<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Haiku<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Ubuntu 22<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
build-essential<\/code> and dkms<\/code> using apt<\/code>. The installation is invoked by autorun.sh<\/code>; it did not autorun for me and so I invoked it via the file manager and menu option run as program <\/code>. Guest additions now needs gcc-12, i.e. apt install gcc-12<\/code><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nElementary 6.0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Elive 3<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
MacOS (Snow Leopard)<\/b><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Windows 10 (Guest)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Windows 98<\/b><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Elementary (Loki)<\/b><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
AppCenter<\/code> or apt-get<\/code>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n$ sudo apt-get install -y virtualbox<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\nFedora 24 & Vbox 5.0.26<\/b><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
(yum update) && (yum install kernel-devel)<\/code> which will invoke the dnf commands and then make the guest additions. The update took a bit of time. It would seem that one has to use systemd to execute the mount commands as System V init files no longer works.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWindows Hosts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Problems<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Openfire<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Mongodb & Shared Folders<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Extending or resize(ing) Hard Disks<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
vboxmanage<\/code>, and extend the partitions using gpartd<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUsing Shared Folders<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Share Disk<\/b><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
chmod<\/code> to fix this. I use non-standard file locations. It seems my scripts are no longer needed. <\/p>\n\n\n\nmount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000 ${sharename} ${mountname}\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\nmountshares<\/code> script to use the -o flag. I have also written an installer. It is LSB compliant and tested for syntax and function on Ubuntu 11, <\/b>also how-to-mount-a-virtualbox-shared-folder-at-startup<\/a> from askubuntu talks of fstab dated 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\nmount -t iso9660 -o ro \/dev\/cdrom \/media\/cdrom<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Shared Folders<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Resources.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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