![]() ![]() Mount -r /dev/cdrom /media/VirtualBoxGuestAdditions Mount the Guest Additions CD by clicking on Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image. ![]() Yum install gcc kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms make bzip2 perl Open your terminal and change to root user Note: To move your mouse put of the VM desktop, simply press the following keys on your keyboard once at the same time “AltGr” + “Ctrl” (both keys on your right hand side) You need to install the Guest Additions to allow you move your mouse freely between your VM and your physical desktop machine and also resize the VM desktop resolution.You can skip the sign-in bit and start using your OS.Click on your desired Language / Keyboard Layout. ![]() Next login with the password provided when you downloaded the image file.Start the virtual machine > Ensure the first option as seen below is select.Click the small folder icon and navigate to the image file directory where you unzipped it to. On Next, select “Use an existing virtual hard disk file”.On Next, enter desired memory size (recommend 1024mb).Version: Select Red Hat (64bit) or Red Hat (32bit) depending on the Image file version downloaded earlier.Start your Virtualbox > Click on New and Enter details as follows.Please ONLY use these image files for testing purposes and not on a LIVE environment Unzip the file using 7zip to a dedicated folder Download the latest Virtualbox VDI Image file from OSBoxes.First install a VirtualBox on your machine (Windows or Linux).In other words, you can spin up multiple virtual machines of any desired OS within minutes of each other as long as the underlining machine machine spec can handle the load. ![]() Thanks to the awesome work done by the team at OSBoxes, they have done more than 80% of the work for us by providing a ready-to-go VDI Image file for the major Linux Distros and all are up to the latest stable builds.įor those who may not know this, VirtualBox is a free, open source virtualization software that allows users to run multiple operating systems on their machine from within a single machine. So for this reason, I will be showing you the fastest way to have a CentOS 7 machine up and running without incurring any cost. As part of my upcoming HowTo tutorials on my blog, I will need to install CentOS 7 on a virtualbox to accomplish this tasks. ![]()
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