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The new Virtual Machine is finished and configured. The last step is the installation of the guest operative system inside the VM. From now on, this will be the same as installing a new OS on any real computer.
02:59 - Let’s starting the installation of Sabayon linux by selecting the Virtual Machine Sabayon on the VirtualBox left panel. Click the button Start on the menu above.
A new window will show up. That’s the window of the new Virtual Machine where Sabayon will be installed. A pop up window with information will show up. It’s self explanatory. Read it and activate the check box “Do not show this message again”. It explains how the mouse and keyboard works between the VM and the real computer.
When working on your windows desktop click Right Ctrl key and mouse and keyboard will be active on your VM. Click again Right Ctrl and the control of the mouse and keyboard will be passed again to your windows desktop.
Another information may also appear. Read it and activate the check box “Do not show this message again”.
A warning window can also appear. Read it and click OK.
03:01 - The menu to chose the installation type will show up. Select with the arrow keys the “Start graphical Installation” option and press Enter.
03:02 - The installation process will start.
03:04 - First screen. Click Next.
03:05 - Chose your keyboard and click Next.
03:05 - Chose the desktop type. Select Sabayon Linux KDE Desktop and click Next.
03:06 - Services configuration. Accept the default values and click Next.
03:06 - Disk partitioning setup. Select automatically partition and click Next.
03:07 - Say Yes to this warning. Don’t worry. You are working in the Virtual Machine.
03:08 - Automatic partitioning. Select “Remove all partitions on this System” and click next. Say yes to the warning box that will show up.
03:08 - Disk Setup. Information about the partitions to be created. Click Next.
The next screen will show the boot loader configuration. Accept the default values and click Next. Click Here to see the screen with the Boot Loader Configuration.
03:09 - Network Configuration. Accept the default values and click Next.
On the next screen select your time zone and click ext.
03:14 - Set Root Password. Type the root password. Type the name , username and password for user that will use the system usually. On my case my username will be myself. This will be the user that will use the system for normal work. Click Next.
On the next screen click Next to start the installation process.
03:15 - The installation will start.
03:34 - Around 20 minutes later the installation will be done. Click Reboot.
03:36 - The system will reboot.
03:38 - Click continue without desktop acceleration.
03:39 - Click the arrow pointing to the right to login.
03:40 - We are in. But we are still running from the Live CD (our ISO file mounted when we were configuring the VM). The user is Sabayonuser, the default username when running the Live CD. You can already have a feeling of everything.
03:42 - The KDE Menu. From here you can access and control everything on the system. Let’s try Firefox.
03:54 - Ok… play a little bit and shutdown the system.
04:01 - On the main window of VirtualBox, select on the left panel your VM Sabayon and click on Settings button. Select CD/DVD-ROM and instead of ISO Image File, activate the Host CD/DVD Drive. This will disable the ISO file used to install the system and will enable the CD/DVD drive to be mounted on the VM. Click OK.
Click the Start button to start our Virtual machine.
This time the system will be running from the Virtual Hard drive.
04:07 - Login screen. Put your username and password and press enter. My username is myself and password is :)). The username and password were setup before (see time 03:14 above).
You can also login as root. Type root on the username field and then type the root’s password. It’s not very wise though.
04:08 - Here we are. The system is running. A complete linux installation running inside windows Vista with the help of VirtualBox. Play around and have fun.
04:14 - Firefox is running. KDE file manager is also running and the shell as well for the ones that like to do things the hard way.
04:17 - I’ve inserted a DVD disk in the DVD reader and Sabayon has detected the DVD like Windows and asks what we want to do. I have selected “Open in new window” and clicked OK.
The KDE file manager will run showing the contents of the DVD. See image Here.
04:22 - SMPlayer is a media player that can run any kind of multimedia files.
04:24 - Close all applications. Right click on any place on the desktop and select Log Out “username”. On the next screen select Tur Off Computer.
Now that the virtual machine is done, we need to make a few adjustments to the “hardware” of this “new computer”.
On the main window of VirtualBox we have two panels. The left panel contains all the virtual machines the you have created. The right panel shows the “hardware” characteristics of the virtual machine selected on the left panel. These characteristics are the ones that we are going to change and adjust to “build” our virtual computer.
To start the “hardware” adjustments of the virtual machine just select it on the left panel and click on the Settings button above.
A new window will show up. On the left panel are the devices to be configured and the configurations are made on the right panel. The very first adjustments to be done are the General configurations where you can adjust the Base Memory Size (RAM assigned to the VM) and the Video Memory Size (memory assigned to the virtual graphics card of the VM). On my VM I have assigned 519 Mb of RAM to the VM and 128Mb to the virtual graphics card.
Still inside the General configurations select Advanced. Here the Boot Order of the VM can be changed the same way it would be done on a real computer changing the Boot Order on the BIOS. Normally it’s not necessary to change anything here.
Next there is the Hard Disks configuration. There isn’t any need to change anything here because it was done during the initial wizard to create the VM.
CD/DVD-ROM - Here you can mount the CD/DVD Drive on the VM putting a check on the Mount CD/DVD Drive check box. When starting the VM the CD/DVD/Drive will be assigned to the VM.
To mount the CD/DVD Drive there are two options. Mount the real CD/DVD Drive or mount an ISO image file. The former mounts and assigns the computer’s CD/DVD Drive on the VM. The latter allows to mount any ISO image file as a CD/DVD Drive.
We are going to chose the option Mount ISO Image File. We have already downloaded an ISO image file of the Sabayon Linux distribution on the part one of this tutorial.
After choosing the ISO Image File option, click on the folder icon similar to this one:
This will evokes the Virtual Media Manager to select the ISOs to be mounted.
The Virtual Media Manager will open. I have already here to ISO image files but none of them is the one the I need to install the Sabayon Linux.
Click the button Add to select and add an ISO image file to the Virtual Media Manager.
Got to the location on your hard drive where you have downloaded the Sabayon Linux image file. Select it and click Open.
The ISO image file of Sabayon Linux will be listed now on the Virtual Media Manager. Select it with the mouse and click on the button Select on the lower right corner.
You’ll be automatically transported to the settings window of the Sabayon Virtual Machine. Click OK.
We’re again on the main window of VirtualBox. With Sabayon selected on the left panel we can see on the right panel all the configurations of our new Sabayon Virtual Machine
The image above shows the configurations of mine Sabayon VM done until now. Click again on the Settings button.
Click the Audio device button.
Activate the Enable Audio check box. This will allow the VM to have a virtual sound card. The configurations shown above have worked just perfect for me. If after running your VM you don’t have sound, just come here again and try other options.
Click the USB button and activate the Enable USB Controller.
Any USB device being used by the guest OS running on the Virtual Machine will not be accessible by the host OS.
Click OK and we’ll be back to the main window of VirtualBox
On part 4 of this tutorial we will finally install the new operative system Sabayon Linux.
Run VirtualBox like any other software. It should be under Start > Sun xVM VirtualBox > VirtualBox
Start VirtualBox
This image on the left is the interface of VirtualBox. i have already a few guests OS installed. Your VM (virtual machine) is empty. To install our new linux system that we have just downloaded, we have to create a virtual machine for it.
Just click on the button New and we will start the process of creating a brand new virtual machine.
First step - Click Next
Always read the dialog boxes… yep… it’s a stupid comment but there are a lot of people that don’t do that.
Give a name to your VM
Give a name your VM. Name it according the OS you are about to install. This will make things easier later on when you have several Guests OS installed.
You have also to chose the type of OS to be installed. based on that choice , VirtualBox will pre-configure a few things for you. Click Next
Define the RAM to your VM
Decide the amount of RAM that your VM will have. Based on your previous choice VirtualBox recommends 256MB of memory. Click Next
Chose a virtual Hard Drive
Now it’s time to chose a virtual hard drive. You still don’t have any. Click New to create one.
New Virtual Disk Wizard
First step to create a new virtual hard drive. Click Next
Type of Virtual Hard Drive
Chose the type of virtual drive: Dynamic or Fixed.
Dynamic - VirtualBox will contract or expand the size of the files used as virtual drive as needed.
Fixed - VirtualBox will use always a file with the same size.
If in the future you install lots of software inside your VM and you reach the limit of the virtual drive, you can’t do anything about it.
With Dynamic drive you will not have that problem but if you chose a drive with 8GB and you don’t install any kind of software, you will have a few Gbytes of wasted space.
With time you’ll learn the best option. Click Next.
Define the size of VirtualHard drive
It’s time to decide the size of your virtual hard drive. Virtualbox recommends 8GB. If you have that space available accept that value. If not chose half of that value. Give a name to the file that will be saved on your computer as a virtual hard drive. To keep things organized give the same name that you have given to your VM on the beginning. Click Next.
Virtual Hard Drive created
Your new hard drive is created. Click Finish to complete the operation.
Chose the VM hard drive
We’re back to step 5. Chose your recently created hard drive as the hard disk of your virtual machine. Click Next.
Final step - VM is finished
Your new virtual machine is concluded. Click Finish.
On the next post we will be ajusting our new virtual machine.
Have you ever wondered about having two Operative Systems installed on your PC running simultaneously? It’s extremely easy to do and very handy.In this illustrated tutorial I am gonna show how to install Linux Sabayon inside Windows Vista Home Basic.
Linux Sabayon is a flavor of linux based on the Gentoo distribution. It’s an amazing distribution and the GUI is awesome. Just to give you a taste of it look at this image and video.
Linux Sabayon running inside Windows Vista
Video showing Linux Sabayon running
Before the advent of virtual machines software, we had only one possibility: dual boot systems. Dual Boot has some advantages but has the inconvenient of while you are running one system, the other is off. Virtual machines solved that problem. With them you can have your main system running and install other Operative Systems inside virtual machines. This allows you to run and test a big variety of systems without messing with partitions.
How about the new shareware just downloaded from the Internet? You could install the old Windows 98 or Windows 2000 in a virtual machine and then test the shareware without jeopardizing your main system. The possibilities are endless.
Install VirtualBox
Just a few notes:
My computer is a Dell computer with 2GB of RAM and Windows Vista Home Basic installed. This is the HOST
OS.After the installation of VirtualBox, each operative system that you install inside it, they will the GUEST OS.
Go to VirtualBox website and download the software. Inside the download section you will find several versions. Download the appropriated version for you. For me was the x86 version.
Install it like you install any other software.
Download Linux Sabayon
The first thing that you have to do is to download the Linux Sabayon distribution. Go to the Sabayon website.
Sabayon website
Chose Download bellow Enjoy Sabayon
Go to one of the mirrors to chose one version of Sabayon. I have used an mirror from Denmark. Chose this file: SabayonLinux-x86-3.4.miniEdition.iso and start your download.
Chose download mirror
Chose file to download
Chose Save File
locate a place to save the file
Start the download
If you are a smoker, lit a cigarette… it Will take a while to download the file.
Come back soon for part II of this tutorial on How to install linux sabayon inside windows Vista.
02:59 - Let’s starting the installation of Sabayon linux by selecting the Virtual Machine Sabayon on the VirtualBox left panel. Click the button Start on the menu above.
A new window will show up. That’s the window of the new Virtual Machine where Sabayon will be installed. A pop up window with information will show up. It’s self explanatory. Read it and activate the check box “Do not show this message again”. It explains how the mouse and keyboard works between the VM and the real computer.
Another information may also appear. Read it and activate the check box “Do not show this message again”.
A warning window can also appear. Read it and click OK.
03:01 - The menu to chose the installation type will show up. Select with the arrow keys the “Start graphical Installation” option and press Enter.
