01. Using Virtualbox

Main video: Using Virtualbox (in Russian).

Getting VirtualBox

• Install VirtualBox

  • Linux-based OS: from repository

  • MacOS: from site or repository

  • Windows: from site

• Download ISO image from «Simply Linux 9» from Get ALT

  • exactly: slinux-live-9.0-x86_64.iso

Make a bootable flash drive

This is optional

• on linux:
  1. Check the disk drive devices list:

        1 $ ls /dev/sd*
        2 /dev/sda  /dev/sda1  /dev/sda2  /dev/sda3  /dev/sda4  /dev/sda5  /dev/sdb  /dev/sdb1
        3 
     

  2. Plug flash drive in, check the list again:

        1 ls /dev/sd*
        2 /dev/sda   /dev/sda2  /dev/sda4  /dev/sdb   /dev/sdc   /dev/sdc2
        3 /dev/sda1  /dev/sda3  /dev/sda5  /dev/sdb1  /dev/sdc1
        4 
     

     • New devices appeared: /dev/sdc is the whole flash drive, /dev/sdc? are pratitions on this drive (if any)

  3. Write bootable image to the drive:

        1    $ sudo dd bs=1M oflag=direct if=slinux-live-9.0-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sd∅ status=progress
        2 
     

     • Where /dev/sd∅ is actual flash drive name you've discovered before

     WARNING! The sudo command acquires super-user privileges, and then dd destroys all data previously on the device specified by of= argument, be careful

• See instructions (in Russian) for alternative tools

«Live» distro

• Any computer can be booted from CD or flash drive (or even via network)

• It's fully functional, except

  1. It's slower on system files reading (because flash is slower than HDD)
  2. It's not easy to upgrade/install new packages on Live drive (although no impossible when you using «USB live with session support» option)

• No harm is done to the OS residing on the native hard drive

Installing Linux distro

• Create a appropriate Virtual Machine (VM)

  • RAM space ⩾ 521M (2G is recommended)
  • HDD space ⩾ 16G (32G is recommended)

    • Virtual HDD is just file on host machine

• Boot this VM from image downloaded (it will ask for it)
• Proceed installation

  • WARNING: disk partitioning is the most complex part of installation, but when installing into VM, you'll get empty virtual HDD and can just confirm the default options

  • Also you can google «simply linux installation»

• Reboot VM and check than OS is loading

H/W

• Create 01_UsingVirtualbox on sugon server

• Run VM
• Open terminal inside vm

• Enter command ip link show dev eth0

• Create 01_UsingVirtualbox/mac file containing the output of your VM's ip link command

  • Copy+paste may work

  • scp also may work

• Make a vitrualbox snapshot of the installed system