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| - | ===== VirtualBox tips/tricks ===== | ||
| - | ==== Commonly-used commands ==== | ||
| - | To change between "not attached", | ||
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| - | Set the boot order: | ||
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| - | Add a shared folder: | ||
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| - | Acpi Vm: | ||
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| - | Change rdp address: | ||
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| - | Change the Authentication type: | ||
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| - | **Note**: option " | ||
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| - | Change rdp port: | ||
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| - | List all VMs in the server: | ||
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| - | List all running VMs: | ||
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| - | List guest properties: | ||
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| - | Note: All the guest parameters(configuration) are in < | ||
| - | ===== Create a VM ===== | ||
| - | Copy an ISO to your home directory: | ||
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| - | * SSH to VM server: 172.26.0.205 | ||
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| - | * start the virtualbox application | ||
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| - | * Follow the wizzard to create a VM with the following properties: | ||
| - | - Base Memory: less than 512 MB | ||
| - | - Network : NAT | ||
| - | - Harddisk size: less than 30Gb | ||
| - | ==== Port Forwarding ==== | ||
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| - | If your guest OS is using NAT for networking you will need to enable port forwarding. | ||
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| - | $ VBoxManage setextradata Ubuntu " | ||
| - | $ VBoxManage setextradata Ubuntu " | ||
| - | Then you can log in to the VM from your own computer using the port you've forwarded above: | ||
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| - | === Upgrading VirtualBox === | ||
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| - | VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.8 | ||
| - | (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, | ||
| - | All rights reserved. | ||
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| - | [jmagochi@biovbox ~]$ sudo / | ||
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| - | $ wget http:// | ||
| - | $ ./ | ||
| - | $ / | ||
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| - | ===== Expanding a Virtual Disk ===== | ||
| - | There is no way to expand a VDI. What you have to do is create a new VDI, boot the virtual machine to a live cd, and copy over the filesystem (either via '' | ||
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| - | Create new VDI | ||
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| - | Attach to virtual machine and boot with System Rescue CD | ||
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| - | create two partitions with fdisk/ | ||
| - | * 1: 100 MB, boot, type " | ||
| - | * 2: 30 GB, type "Linux LVM" (8E) | ||
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| - | Format the boot partition as ext3 | ||
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| - | ==== LVM setup ==== | ||
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| - | Create Physical Volume from device: | ||
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| - | Create Volume Group from PV: | ||
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| - | Create Logical Volumes in VG: | ||
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| - | lvcreate -L512M -nLogVol01 VolGroup01</ | ||
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| - | Format the new partitions: | ||
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| - | <note important> | ||
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| - | Mount both root partitions: | ||
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| - | mount / | ||
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| - | Copy everything over: | ||
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| - | Mount both boot partitions: | ||
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| - | mount /dev/sda1 / | ||
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| - | Copy everything over: | ||
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| - | Force SElinux to relabel all files on boot (or else SElinux will deny you to log in) | ||
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| - | Unmount all mounted logical volumes | ||
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| - | Install GRUB on the new VDI | ||
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| - | > root (hd0,0) | ||
| - | > setup (hd0)</ | ||
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| - | ==== Renaming the new volume group==== | ||
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| - | Deativate all logical volumes | ||
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| - | Rename old volume group | ||
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| - | Rename new volume group | ||
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