FedoraCore VirtualBox Guest setup

How to setup FedoraCore Guest in VirtualBox inWindowXP host.

• Download VirtualBox installer from Oracle web site and install Oracle VM VirtualBox.
• Launch Oracle VM VirtualBox.
• Change the default Folder location for HardDisk and Machine:
• Go to File->Preferences->General
• Change location of Default Hard Drive Folder.
• c:\MyStuff\VirtualBox\HardDisks
• Change location of Default Machine Folder.
• c:\MyStuff\VirtualBox\Machines
• Create new virtual machine:


• Click on New icon.
• On Welcome screen, click Next.
• On VM Name and OS Type screen, enter

• Name: salmon
• OS Type:
• Operating System: Linux
• Version: Fedora
• Click Next
• On Memory screen, 

• set the Base Memory Size to 1024 MB.
• Click Next

• On Virtual Hard Drive screen
• Check Boot Hard Drive
• Select Create new hard disk
• Click Next

•  On Hard Disk Storage Type screen

• Select Dynamically allocated
• Click Next
• On Virtual Disk Location and Size screen
• Make sure the location of salmon is under c:\MyStuff\VirtualBox\HardDisks
• Set the initial size to 32 GB (10GB is the bare minimum).
• Click Next
• On Summary screen
• Click Finish

• Adjust Virtual Machine salmon settings
• Click on Setting icon
• In salmon - Settings screen 

• Select System/Motherboard tab 
• Under Boot Order section
• Uncheck Floppy entry
• Under Extended Features
• Leave Enable IO APCI unchecked
• Select System/Acceleration tab 
• Make sure 
• VT-x/AMD-V is enabled
• Nested Pages is enabled

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• Select Display/Video tab

• Enable 3D Acceleration
• Select Display/Storage tab
•  Under Storage Tree in IDE Controller, select Empty CD icon.
• To install directly from physical Fedora i386 DVD, you need to connect a physical host device (such as DVD drive) to your virtual machine. For that, under Attributes:




• Click on a little DVD icon to the right of the CD/DVD Drive selection. Click on "Host Drive D:".  The IDE Controller child entry will change to 'Host Drive D:' selection.
• Select Passthrough option. 



• Select Audio tab.


• Check 'Enable Audio' box
• Select 'Windows DirectSound' audio driver
• Select 'ICH AC97' audio controller
  
• Insert Fedora Core DVD disk in DVD drive.
• Click on the Start button to begin installation
• Set Hostname to your Host machine name (with full domain name)
• Choose Customize now option and select
• Choose GNOME Desktop Development
• Under Applications select
• Authoring and Publishing
• Editors
• Graphics Internet
• Graphics
• Office/Productivity
• Sound and Video
• Text-based Internet (for wget)
• Under Development select
• Development Libraries
• Development Tools
• Fedora Packager
• GNOME Software Development
• Web Development
• X Software Development
•  Under Servers select
• MySQL Database
• Network Servers
• Printing Support
• Server Configuration Tools
• Web Server
• Windows File Server
• Under Base System in addition to defaults, select
• Administration Tools
• System Tools
• Under Languages, 
• add Russian Support
• Continue with installation (grab a sandwich or something...). This will take a while.
• Reboot after installation is complete and
• Create user account
• Setup Network Time Protocol server
• Enable sudo access for your login account:
• $ su -
• Password: {your superuser password}
• # /usr/sbin/visudo
• {edit /etc/sudoers file and add} 
• {username}  ALL=(ALL) ALL

• Install Guess Additions
• Guest Additions add very useful functionality:
• X server driver with higher screen resolution
• Seamless cut-n-past between Host and Guest OSes
• Mouse driver that integrates host and virtual desktop spac

        To install Guest Additions:

• Install development tools to be able to compile kernel drivers:
• # yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

• Check if running guest VM window has its menu bar at the top shown. If not, shutdown the VM machine and re-enable it for the guest.
• In the Oracle VM VirtualBox menu, click on Devices->Install Guest Additions 
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• In the Guest Virtual Machine (VM), GNOME desktop will detect new media inserted, VBOXADDITIONS_3.2.10_66523.
  
  
• Click Cancel to dismiss the dialog.
• Open terminal with Applications->System Tools->Terminal
  
  
  
  
• $ cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_3.2.10_66523
• $ sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run
• When Guest Additions installation is complete, right click on CD icon on the desktop and Eject it.
• Release the cursor and in the Oracle VM VirtualBox menu, click on Devices->CD/DVD Devices click on 'Host Drive D:' to unmount GuestAdditions.iso image.
• In the Virtual Machine, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to add screen resolutions that matches your primary desktop/laptop screen.
  

  $ sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  
  Section"Screen"
  SubSection "Display"
  Modes "1900x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
  Depth 24
  EndSection
  ...
  EndSection
  

• Reboot the Virtual Machine. Now you should have the resizable desktop with fullscreen mode available as well. 
• From you account in the VM, 
• Disable Firewall.
• Set SELinux mode to Permissive.
• To setup USB pass-through support,
• In the Linux guest VM, Create 'usb' group and add yourself as a user to that group.
•  Shut down guest VM
• In the VirtualBox window manager, select the virtual machine and open its Settings dialog.
• Under USB settings,
• Enable USB Controller
• Enable USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller
• Add a USB Device Filter
• Enable the filter
• Edit filter details and set Remote to 'Any'
  
  
  
• Restart the guest VM
• When Linux desktop appears, have focus on the desktop
• Insert the USB stick.
• First time around, Windows XP would detect a new hardware profile. Go on with driver installation to install VirtualBox USB driver.
• In the guest VM, under Devices tab, select the USB stick.
• The USB device should appear on your Linux desktop as icon.
• 
  NOTE: For a while, I was getting this error from VirtualBox's guest VM:
  

  USB device SanDisk USB U3 Cruzer with 
  UUID [some id] is busy with a previous request. 
  Please try again later.
  
  Result code: E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057)
  Component:   HostUSBDevice
  Interface:   IHostUSBDevice {some id}
  Callee:      IConsole {some id} 

  In my case the error was ultimately resolved by creating the "usb" group under guest VM as outlined above. For further information, please, refer to VirtualBox bug #3033 (USB device not available to Guest)