Prerequisites
- VirtualBox installed
- OS image
Setting Up Virtual Machine
- Press New button
- Set settings accordingly and press Create
- Red Hat for CentOS
- Press Start (Normal Start generally) button to use
Using Virtual Machine
Guide (setup etc.): press F1 when running VirtualBox
- After setting up, mount the image file: Machine > Settings > Storage > Controller: IDE
- Press the right Ctrl button (a.k.a. Host button) to release mouse from VBox
- To change allocated disk size: File > Virtual Media Manager > Attributes > Size
- For resize window or/and copy-paste features
- Prerequisites:
- Run the installer @ Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image
- Reboot VM OS
- Prerequisites:
- If boots in black screen, do one of these:
- Increase storage capacity
- Increase video memory (Settings > Display > Screen) to 64MB
- Switch Graphics Controller (Settings > Display > Screen)
- Increase # of processors Settings->System->Processor)
- Boot to recovery moot (press Shift @ boot)