Category: virtualbox

  • Vagrant and VirtualBox on Windows

    Vagrant is a collection of scripts written in Ruby to manage VirtualBox images in a shared environment (like the QA boxes inside a company): install them, update them, etc. Unfortunately installing it under Windows is not as straight forward as one would want, so here are some useful tips: Read the Windows setup page and…

  • Creating a non-MAC bound CentOS 6 machine

    I was building VMs to be deployed with Vagrant / Virtualbox for our QAs and discovered that on new instantiations of the machine the networking interface wasn’t coming up. The problem was that Virtualbox was assigning a random MAC address to the NIC (and rightly so, to avoid conflicts). I used the following steps to…

  • Installing guest additions for VirtualBox with Ubuntu 8.10

    I installed VirtualBox (the OSS version) from the Ubuntu repos (in hindsight it may have been better to use the VB repos, but I’m just lazy), and when I tried to install the guest additions in a WinXP VM, it complained that it can’t find the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso. The solution: Download the corresponding iso from here…

  • Installing *BSD under VirtualBox

    I managed to install FreeBSD and OpenBSD under VirtualBox. With NetBSD I gave up :-(. Here are some tips: This is a good general OpenBSD tutorial If you get the following message with OpenBSD: uid 0 on /: file system full /: write failed, file system is full Segmentation fault The solution described by this…