Tutorial : VirtualBox on openSUSE 11.1 Part 2

We have installed VirtualBox as describe on Tutorial : VirtualBox on openSUSE 11.1 Part 1. Now, we will continue the process by using VirtualBox and testing guest operating system. I’m using openSUSE 11.1 as guest OS. You may used another operating system instead of openSUSE.

  1. Open VirtualBox from kick off menu or by run VirtualBox (case sensitive) within konsole.

    VirtualBox Menu

  2. Choose Create menu

    VirtualBox Menu

  3. Typing your guest operating system

    VirtualBox Menu

  4. Specify memory for guest OS

    VirtualBox Menu

  5. Choose Virtual Disk. Click New button for create new virtual disk.

    VirtualBox Menu

  6. Click Next to start creating virtual disk

    VirtualBox Menu

  7. Choose the harddisk type, dynamic size or permanent. If you choose dynamic, VirtualBox will be resize dynamically according to your image size

    VirtualBox Menu

  8. Make a proper name for virtual disk

    VirtualBox Menu

  9. Finish

    VirtualBox Menu

  10. Next for continue the wizard

    VirtualBox Menu

  11. Finish the wizard

    VirtualBox Menu

  12. We have an existing virtual machine. We should continue our work by installing Guest OS. In this scenario, I’m using ISO image mounted as CD ROM. Let’s mount the CD ROM. Click on CD ROM.

    VirtualBox Menu

  13. Choose Mount CD/DVD Drive ISO Image File. If you wish to install from physical CD ROM, used Host CD/DVD Drive instead and goto step 15

    VirtualBox Menu

  14. Click lookup button (yellow button) and choose Add on mount dialog

    VirtualBox Menu

  15. Choose your ISO File

    virtualbox-iso1

    virtualbox-iso2

  16. Click Start and follow the installation wizard

    VirtualBox Menu

    VirtualBox Menu

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Posted by Masim "Vavai" Sugianto on Jan 9th, 2009 and filed under Linux, OpenSUSE, Virtualization. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response by filling following comment form or trackback to this entry from your site

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