Amahi on VirtualBox - Revision history

Taa: /* Run the installation */ Grammer, punctuation.

2015-10-16T03:50:21Z

Run the installation: Grammer, punctuation.

2015-10-16T03:46:20Z

Create the VM: Added extra blank line before "Once you've created..."

2015-10-16T03:44:51Z

Configure the hda: Added details for setting up VirtualBox DHCP server.

2015-10-16T03:26:13Z

The catch: Made Mac OS a separate paragraph to stand out more. Some grammatical and punctuation changes.

2015-09-03T23:15:04Z

Run the installation

2015-09-03T23:14:49Z

Prerequisites

2014-07-10T02:56:10Z

Other approaches to network config

2014-04-12T03:50:23Z

2014-04-05T16:33:35Z

2013-05-23T12:35:55Z

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 = Run the installation =
-Start your VM and it will boot from the CD image.  Work through the Express CD installer in the usual way, entering the install code that the amahi control panel gave created earlier.  You will be asked to reboot a couple of times during the process.  (During the first reboot you will have to disconnect the Express CD iso image, otherwise you'll get back to the installer menu.)
+Start your VM and it will boot from the CD image.  Work through the Express CD installer in the usual way, entering the install code that the Amahi control panel gave you earlier.  You will be asked to reboot a couple of times during the process.  (During the first reboot you will have to disconnect the Express CD iso image, otherwise you'll get back to the installer menu.)
-Eventually, the console should show a text login prompt.  At which point you should shut down the VM (either by sending the shutdown signal from VirtualBox or log in and issue the command).
+Eventually, the console should show a text login prompt.  At which point you should shut down the VM, either by sending the shutdown signal from VirtualBox or log in and issue the '''shutdown''' command.
 = Altering the VM network config =

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 * Select "Linux" and "Fedora" as the OS and version
 * Create a virtual disk for the installation: 8GB, dynamically sized should be sufficient
 Once you've created the VM, go to the settings window and do the following:

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 = Configure the hda =
-First, configure your amahi install in the usual way at the [http://www.amahi.org/user control panel].  You must use the IP address of the VirtualBox "Host only" interface as your gateway (in my case, 192.168.56.1).  You can also set the dhcp to a single start/end address (i.e. 192.168.56.10).  This will ensure your VM has only one possible IP and that will be the one you add to the profile.  If you do not do this, then you will need to find out the IP address in order to access the dashboard.
+First, configure your Amahi install in the usual way at the [http://www.amahi.org/user control panel].  You must use the IP address of the VirtualBox "Host only" interface as your gateway (in my case, 192.168.56.1).
 If you have already have Amahi on your network, you might wish to consider changing the home domain to something other than home.com.

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 The process is fractionally more complex than a standard Amahi install, because we need to tweak the VM network configuration part-way through.
-You will also need to know the IP address range that your version of VirtualBox uses for its "Host only" network type.  Check the network configuration of the host system on Mac OS there's an interface called "vboxnet0".  At the time of writing, the default on Mac OS is 192.168.56.1.
+You will also need to know the IP address range that your version of VirtualBox uses for its "Host only" network type.  Check the network configuration of the host system.
-On linux, you need to create "vboxnet0" on VirtualBox. It's on file -> Settings -> Network and then add a host only network. It will also have 192.168.56.1 as default IP address range.
 = Configure the hda =

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 = Run the installation =
-Start your VM and it will boot from the CD image.  Work through the [[Express CD]] installer in the usual way, entering the install code that the amahi control panel gave created earlier.  You will be asked to reboot a couple of times during the process.  (During the first reboot you will have to disconnect the Express CD iso image, otherwise you'll get back to the installer menu.)
+Start your VM and it will boot from the CD image.  Work through the Express CD installer in the usual way, entering the install code that the amahi control panel gave created earlier.  You will be asked to reboot a couple of times during the process.  (During the first reboot you will have to disconnect the Express CD iso image, otherwise you'll get back to the installer menu.)
 Eventually, the console should show a text login prompt.  At which point you should shut down the VM (either by sending the shutdown signal from VirtualBox or log in and issue the command).

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 * A working installation of VirtualBox
-* An [[Express CD]] image (this was tested with Amahi-5.4-Express-2.6-Beta-i386.iso). This can be done using the normal Fedora i386/x86_64 DVD as well.
+* An Express CD image (this was tested with Amahi-5.4-Express-2.6-Beta-i386.iso). This can be done using the normal Fedora i386/x86_64 DVD as well.
 * A desire to do this!

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 Amahi will work behind VirtualBox NAT quite happily, but at the time of writing, VirtualBox port-forwarding doesn't play nicely with Amahi's network config.  (Or at least it didn't for me.)  NAT also won't permit two virtual machines communicating (e.g. for testing PXE-booting).
-If you want Amahi within the VM to serve other machines on your LAN, select bridged mode instead of NAT initially and don't alter the network config.  (The basic install process will ''just work''.) If you are running on a Linux host, you can go into the "Advanced" settings and set the "Adapter Type" to "Paravirtualized Network (virtio-net)". For more information as to why you might want to do this, check read [http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio here].
+== Bridged Mode ==
 = Guest Additions (Windows) =

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-message = Amahi for Fedora 14<br />Maintenance ONLY!}}
+message = Amahi 7.x (for Fedora 19) specific instructions!}}
 [https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_Virtualized Back to 'Amahi Virtualized']

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	[https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_Virtualized Back to 'Amahi Virtualized']		[https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_Virtualized Back to 'Amahi Virtualized']
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