Editing VirtualBox--SLES

* 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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