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* Add the 2nd ISO image to the VM storage set-up from the beginning! | * Add the 2nd ISO image to the VM storage set-up from the beginning! | ||
* Also add the VirtualBox guest additions from the beginning! | * Also add the VirtualBox guest additions from the beginning! | ||
* Set the network adapter to bridged mode | |||
* The SLES installation boots using the "openSUSE boot loader", that confused me, but then it's alright. | * The SLES installation boots using the "openSUSE boot loader", that confused me, but then it's alright. | ||
* The installation of "VirtualBox guest additions" requires kernel sources, install them! | * The installation of "VirtualBox guest additions" requires kernel sources, install them! | ||
* Change the hostname within the network set-up! | |||
* On your router: assign a static IP address to this VM! | |||
* Mount the (virtual) CD with the "VirtualBox guest additions"! | * Mount the (virtual) CD with the "VirtualBox guest additions"! | ||
* Run the "*.run" script from that CD! | * Run the "*.run" script from that CD! | ||
Revision as of 18:48, 9 January 2015
- http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2015/01/09/sles-as-an-oracle-virtualbox-vm/ – where I started my article initially, but now everthing lives here
- I am quite excited.
- The download URLs are using https.
- My Synology DiskStation's wget (or was it IPKG's?!?) can not download an https URL.
- So I had to download the ISO images somewhere else and move the downloaded files around a little.
- Do the sha256 check-summing!
- Amongst VirtualBox's menu for possible Linuxes I preferred to choose opensuse-64 over "other Linux 64".
- Add the 2nd ISO image to the VM storage set-up from the beginning!
- Also add the VirtualBox guest additions from the beginning!
- Set the network adapter to bridged mode
- The SLES installation boots using the "openSUSE boot loader", that confused me, but then it's alright.
- The installation of "VirtualBox guest additions" requires kernel sources, install them!
- Change the hostname within the network set-up!
- On your router: assign a static IP address to this VM!
- Mount the (virtual) CD with the "VirtualBox guest additions"!
- Run the "*.run" script from that CD!
- If loading the modules ("vbox*") fails, find them yourself beneath /lib/modules, and "insmod" them!
- Restart the X-Window session!
- Now you got a much larger X-Window screen (VirtualBox application window)!
- Register your SLES! (this is where I am stuck right now (2015-01-09))
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