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| author | Christopher Rogers <slaxemulator@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sat Feb 26 12:17:18 2011 +0000 (2011-02-26) |
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| children | a2596b780181 |
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| slaxemulator@7 | 1 ====== Virtualbox ====== |
| slaxemulator@7 | 2 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 3 ===== SliTaz GNU/Linux with VirtualBox ===== |
| slaxemulator@7 | 4 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 5 You can now play with SliTaz GNU/Linux on Windows with VirtualBox. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 6 Required: |
| slaxemulator@7 | 7 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 8 * [[http://virtualbox.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/slitaz-gnulinux-is-here/|SliTaz GNU/Linux Image]], the virtual machine. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 9 * [[http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads|Oracle VirtualBox]] software, binaries for Windows. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 10 * [[http://www.7-zip.org/fr/download.html|7-Zip]], needed to decompress the file. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 11 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 12 ===== Step 1 - Downloads and installation. ===== |
| slaxemulator@7 | 13 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 14 * Download and install 7-Zip - necessary to decompress the files. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 15 * Download and install the Oracle VitualBox software. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 16 * Download and decompress the virtual machine somewhere on your local hard drive. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 17 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 18 ===== Step 2 - Play the virtual machine. ===== |
| slaxemulator@7 | 19 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 20 Before running SliTaz GNU/Linux virtual machine you need to configure a new virtual machine in the VirtualBox software. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 21 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 22 - Run virtualbox [//Start/Programms/Oracle xVM VirtualBox/VirtualBox//]. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 23 - Add a new Machine: Click on [//New//] toolbar button. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 24 - Click [//Next//] in the “ Create New Virtual Machine ” dialog box. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 25 - Give a name to your new virtual machine ( i.e: SliTaz GNU/Linux ), and select Linux 2.6 in OS Type list and click [//Next//] . |
| slaxemulator@7 | 26 - Select the amount of memory for the virtual machine. 256MB default should be sufficient. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 27 - In the “ //Virtual Hard Disk// ” dialog box click on the [//Existing//] button to use your SliTaz virtual disk. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 28 - The Virtual Disk Manager start. Click the [//Add//] toolbar button, locate and select the VDI file (i.e: slitaz-1.9-x86.vdi ). |
| slaxemulator@7 | 29 - Click on [//Next//] and [//Finish//]. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 30 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 31 You can now play with your new SliTaz GNU/Linux virtual machine. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 32 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 33 <note> |
| slaxemulator@7 | 34 VirtualBox can use VMware virtual disks as well. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 35 </note> |
| slaxemulator@7 | 36 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 37 ===== Virtualbox-OSE ===== |
| slaxemulator@7 | 38 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 39 You can install the open source edition of virtualbox (free software) in SliTaz with the package virtualbox-ose: |
| slaxemulator@7 | 40 <code> |
| slaxemulator@7 | 41 # tazpkg get-install virtualbox-ose |
| slaxemulator@7 | 42 </code> |
| slaxemulator@7 | 43 This is a restricted version without USB support. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 44 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 45 ===== Slitaz get-virtualbox ===== |
| slaxemulator@7 | 46 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 47 You can install virtualbox (full, but non-free version) in Slitaz with the get-virtualbox package: |
| slaxemulator@7 | 48 <code># tazpkg get-install get-virtualbox ; get-virtualbox</code> |
| slaxemulator@7 | 49 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 50 Other virtualization (free software) is also available such as lguest or qemu. |
| slaxemulator@7 | 51 ---- |
| slaxemulator@7 | 52 \\ |
| slaxemulator@7 | 53 ^ Page Review Section ^^ |
| slaxemulator@7 | 54 |Quality| Low | |
| slaxemulator@7 | 55 |Review| Major Updates FIXME | |
| slaxemulator@7 | 56 |Priority| Medium | |
| slaxemulator@7 | 57 |Problems| add a [[http://forum.slitaz.org|forum post link]]| |
| slaxemulator@7 | 58 |::: | OR add a [[http://labs.slitaz.org/issues |lab issue tracker link ]]| |
| slaxemulator@7 | 59 |How to Improve| We have get-virtualbox pkg now? Can we remove linux-source dependency from get-virtualbox like nvidia?| |
| slaxemulator@7 | 60 |:::| | |
| slaxemulator@7 | 61 |
| slaxemulator@7 | 62 \\ |
| slaxemulator@7 | 63 ---- |