To test different OS such as Windows 10 or other Linux distros as a guest on host CentOS 8 Linux or Stream operating systems, we can use the best open-source Oracle VirtualBox virtualization platform. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. The installation method of Guest operating systems on VirtualBox will be the same … Read more
Installing CentOS 8 Linux on some virtualization platform such as VirtualBox, Vmware or Hyper-V is not rocket science, we already have done a tutorial on CentOS 7 virtual machine creation, however, it is a latest server operating system, we thought why not one for it. CentOS 8 is the latest operating system from the CentOS … Read more
There are a couple of methods to install Windows XP Virtual machine on Windows 10 using different platforms such as Oracle VirtualBox, Vmware, and Hyper-V. Windows XP is an old but dominant operating system of the world during its heydays. However, this Windows XP is not supported officially but is available in bootable ISO image … Read more
VirtualBox on CentOS 7 or 6 or 5 Linux can be used to create different virtual machines for testing and learning purpose. The usage of open source VirtualBox will be the same for Windows, macOS or Linux, the only discrepancies you will find is in the installation process. Thus, here is the step by step … Read more
On July 6th, 2019, Debian project has announced another update of their Linux OS i.e Debian 10 buster which going to be supported for the next 5 year. The Linux distribution codenamed is “buster “. Let’s know, how to install Debian 10 buster guest on VirtualBox Virtaul machine. Debian 10 buster will come with more … Read more
Hyper-V and VirtualBox both are Virtualization platforms Type-1 (bare metal) and Type 2 hypervisor respectively. Whereas Hyper-V is only for Windows platform while VirtualBox is a cross-platform Virtualization application. Windows is already a quite matured platform, and with time, it is getting handy new features for a different niche of users. One of them is … Read more
We are very well acquainted with Linux, however, when it comes to UNIX based operating system then most don’t know from where to download it. Just like Linux Distros Unix is also available under different names such as Oracle Solaris, OpenSolaris (Discontinued), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonflyBSD. There is quite a confusion between Unix and … Read more
Arch Linux is another Linux distribution that is free and open-source based on the x86-64 architecture. It is a highly customizable Linux distro which comes with a minimal base system for installation to allow users to install their favourite desktop environment and perform customization. Arch Linux is based on KISS principle design means Keep It … Read more
While Creating some virtual machine on VirtualBox, we have an option to create a Virtual hard disk for a guest operating system of our own choice, that is really great. However, once it created and VM installed using it then expansion of the same virtual disk drive’s size would be a little complex if you … Read more
Booting ISO files in VirtualBox to create a Virtual Machine is pretty much easy, however, what about Virtual Machine USB boot? Yes, I mean suppose you have a bootable USB drive and no ISO file image or anything to boot with to install an OS on VirtualBox; at such condition what will you do? Simple, … Read more
VirtualBox is a Type-2 Virtualization software developed by the Oracle. It is a cross-platform Virtualization software which means it can be installed on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and MacOS easily, just like any other normal software. In the installation below on Windows, you only need to double-click on the downloaded VirtualBox.exe installation file, and then continue … Read more
Q1. What is VirtualBox, it used for? VirtualBox (VB) is an open source virtual machine software that meant to run a different operating system as a guest OS on a host machine… VB is a software developed by Innotek of Germany and produced by Sun Microsystems. It is written in Qt and officially renamed Oracle VM … Read more
Oracle Linux is an enterprise Linux server operating system built on the same code used by the RedHat Enterprise Linux. The core difference is the branding and touches that Oracle has given to improve the performance of Oracle Linux. It is free to download and distribute. In this article, we simply see the way to install Oracle … Read more
Step by step procedure to download Oracle Linux ISO file and then how to install it on VirtualBox. Oracle Linux, the full name of Oracle Enterprise Linux, referred to as OEL, is the first version of Oracle released in early 2006, one of the Linux distributions, to better support Oracle software and hardware support. Oracle … Read more