Yeah, as mentioned above, and more clearly stated in the post I put on Newbies when I realized I had posted to the wrong category here, I did copy the distro onto my hard drive.
If you can't see your USB, copy the iso to a folder on your machine. >navigate to the directory containing the iso When it's "running," my new VM is a black box that looks like a command-line interface, but with a toolbar at the top with File / Machine / View / Input / Devices / Help. I know this is the right track toward the help I need. >You just create your VM, then run it and it will ask you for an install. When - instead of Storage - I go down further and try USB, I don't see a solution on the window that opens. But my USB drive isn't on the locations shown there. I try going to Settings / Storage / Controller IDE / Empty, and then choosing any of the four IDE options from the dropdown under Attributes, along with clicking on the little folder icon to browse to files on my computer.
Install a distro onto this new Virtual Machine from a USB (I don't have any CDs or DVDs with me and can't get any for at least a few days). Create a Virtual Machine with Virtual Box.
I am pretty sure that I'm misunderstanding something very basic.īut what I (probably wrongly) thought was possible was:Ģ. Just folders.Īfter creating the Virtual Machine, I'm in the tool that shows what you've put in Virtual Box under New / Settings / Discard / Start So copying the distro to my hard drive, along with the ISO file, does no good because files are not displayed. Now click on the tiny floppy disk icon with the “+” symbol (you might need to unselect specific entries in the storage tree to have it not grayed out, as it is in the above screen capture).Is it even possible to install another Linux distro to a VM created with VirtualBox in Linux Mint?īut after some hours of searching, I have not found a way to get Virtual Box Manager to look at my USB, where the required ISO file (from the distro I'm trying to install) is. To add a device, however, you’ll want to click on “Storage” along the top row.Īlmost there. Lots of things to tweak for a given OS, actually:
Now that it’s not running, click on the “Settings” gear icon on the top left of this window. The Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager window should then show it as “Powered Off”, as Solaris shows here: Click “OK” then power down your Linux system exactly as if it were on a computer of its own. Fail to do so, and you’ll get an error like this when you try to connect the virtual DVD to the system: If you haven’t tried VirtualBox yet, it’s quite impressive as a virtualization environment, and while it might have less bells and whistles than Parallels or VMWare Fusion, it’s hard to beat the price, and it really does work just fine for many situations where you need a different OS virtualized rather than as an alternative boot OS.Īs with the two better known commercial options, VirtualBox requires that you power down the virtual machine to make any modifications, and that’s really key to what you want to accomplish.
Nicely done! I’m actually running something even more improbable on my Mac system through Oracle’s free-to-download VirtualBox system: Solaris 11.