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Virtualbox
SliTaz GNU/Linux with VirtualBox
You can now play with SliTaz GNU/Linux on Windows with VirtualBox. Required:
- SliTaz GNU/Linux Image, the virtual machine.
- Oracle VirtualBox software, binaries for Windows.
- 7-Zip, needed to decompress the file.
Step 1 - Downloads and installation.
- Download and install 7-Zip - necessary to decompress the files.
- Download and install the Oracle VitualBox software.
- Download and decompress the virtual machine somewhere on your local hard drive.
Step 2 - Play the virtual machine.
Before running SliTaz GNU/Linux virtual machine you need to configure a new virtual machine in the VirtualBox software.
- Run virtualbox [Start/Programms/Oracle xVM VirtualBox/VirtualBox].
- Add a new Machine: Click on [New] toolbar button.
- Click [Next] in the “ Create New Virtual Machine ” dialog box.
- 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] .
- Select the amount of memory for the virtual machine. 256MB default should be sufficient.
- In the “ Virtual Hard Disk ” dialog box click on the [Existing] button to use your SliTaz virtual disk.
- The Virtual Disk Manager start. Click the [Add] toolbar button, locate and select the VDI file (i.e: slitaz-1.9-x86.vdi ).
- Click on [Next] and [Finish].
If you wish to set up a network using the Host-only adapter, follow these instructions:
- Click on the [Settings] toolbar button
- Click on [Network] in the side menu
- Select the Network Adapter (usually Adapter 1) and set it for Host-only networking
- Click on the Advanced arrow
- Change the Adapter Type to PCnet-FAST III
- Click on OK
The default Intel adapter seems to work fine for NAT, but not for Host-only networking.
You can now play with your new SliTaz GNU/Linux virtual machine.
Virtualbox-OSE
You can install the open source edition of virtualbox (free software) in SliTaz with the package virtualbox-ose:
# tazpkg get-install virtualbox-ose
This is a restricted version without USB support.
See http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/installing-virtualbox-guest-additions-in-slitaz-40-target#post-10791
Slitaz get-virtualbox
You can install virtualbox (full, but non-free version) in Slitaz with the get-virtualbox package:
# tazpkg get-install get-virtualbox ; get-virtualbox
Other virtualization (free software) is also available such as lguest or qemu.
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How to Improve | We have get-virtualbox pkg now? Can we remove linux-source dependency from get-virtualbox like nvidia? |