Mini HOWTOS.

This is how to create a VirtualBox machine when you what tot use the command line or you cannot access the GUI. We will create a machine that will have the following setup

• vbTest
• Ubuntu Linux 64bit
• 1Gb RAM
• 8Gb Hard drive
• 1 Network card (bridged to the local nic)

Lets create the the new machine called vbTest. We can register it here or we can use the registervm later. Its less typing this way

Create the hard disk called vbtext.vdi, 8Gb will be large enough. the remember flag registers the hard drive so we can install it in the virtual PC later.

We will add some RAM. 1Gb should be plenty for now.

Install the hard drive into the machine.

Register DVD into known list of DVDs and then add it to the VM

Set up the boot order for the dvd and hard drive, and turn off the floppy disk boot selection.

The network card settings are next

Turn on the virtual remote desk top (only if you are using the non free version) and turn on physical address extensions which are necessary when installing Ubuntu server.

Note: If you want to use USB you must have the non-free version of VirtualBox AND add the following to your /etc/fstab. Where NNN = the GID for vboxusers. Look in /etc/groups for the value on your system.
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=NNN,devmode=664 0 0