What To Create Later Installing Virtualbox

Part 1 focuses on the installation of VirtualBox together with the invitee OS (FreeBSD). Part 2 addresses things that yous should produce subsequently installing VirtualBox. Lastly, parts 3 together with 4 deals specifically alongside accessing USB flash drives from the invitee OS, together with sharing folders.

Install extension pack

The base of operations VirtualBox parcel is missing simply about important functionalities: back upwardly for virtual USB 2.0 together with 3.0 devices, host webcam passthrough, Intel PXE boot, together with disk ikon encryption. To obtain those functionalities, yous necessitate to download together with install the VirtualBox extension pack.

Note that the extension pack operates nether a much stricter license than the GPLv2 of the base of operations VirtualBox package. Specifically, the VirtualBox Extension Pack Personal Use together with Evaluation License (PUEL) 'is a costless license for personal, educational or evaluation use'. For commercial use, yous produce get got to pay a fee to Oracle.

The physical care for to install the extension pack is every bit follows:

1. Download the VirtualBox extension pack to your host machine.
   
   The extension pack is available from the VirtualBox website. The parcel is universal for all host together with invitee OSes. However, yous should usage the same version for both the base of operations together with extension pack. In other words, when yous upgrade your base, yous should besides upgrade the extension pack.
2. Run VirtualBox Manager.

3. Add extension pack.
   
   From the File menu, click Preferences. Then, choose Extensions inward the side panel.

Click the + icon to specify the place of the extension pack file (Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.4-119785.vbox-extpack).

At the end, click Install. Before it begins installation, yous volition endure prompted to convey the software license, together with to move inward the administrative password.

Bridge host & invitee networks

By default, the virtual automobile is NATed (not bridged) to your host network. Consequently, the FreeBSD invitee is on a dissimilar subnet than the host. For example, my FreeBSD invitee has a 10.0.0.2 IP address piece my Linux host has a 192.168.1.49 IP address. Practically, it agency that I cannot ssh to the invitee OS from anywhere inward my host network. To brand that possible, I necessitate to brace the host network together with the guest. The physical care for is below (the VM does not get got to endure powered off for yous to alter networking).

1. Open the VirtualBox Manager, together with click Settings.
2. Click Network inward the side menu.

3. Select Bridged Adapter inward the Attached to dropdown menu.

Enable re-create & glue betwixt host & guest

I administer the FreeBSD invitee extensively from its virtual organisation console running on the Linux host. By default, the clipboard is non shared betwixt the host together with the invitee systems. That agency I oft necessitate to manually re-enter commands on the invitee OS rather than re-create together with glue from the host. To percentage the organisation clipboard (and salvage yourself enough of laborious typing), follow the steps below:

1. Open the VirtualBox Manager, together with click Settings.
2. Select General, together with click the Advanced tab.

3. Select bidirectional for both Shared Clipboard together with Drag together with Drop.

Note that, to percentage the clipboard, the FreeBSD-specific invitee additions parcel (emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions) must besides endure installed. The instruction for that is already detailed inward the Post-installation department of part 1 of this series.

Related posts

• Part i of VirtualBox series.
• Part 3 - on mounting USB drives.
• Part 4 - on sharing folders.

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