Red Hat For Virtualbox For Mac

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This step by step tutorial on how to install RHEL 7 as a VirtualBox image on a MacOs.

❗️ Before starting be sure that you have already download the RHEL DVD BINARY ISO, and that your machine currently has internet access.

  • Enhanced VM integration is available by installing VirtualBox Guest Additions on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux VM. The enhancements include: Better mouse pointer integration that eliminates the need to capture the pointer within the VM. Copy and paste between the VM and the host system. Folders that are shared from the host system to the VM.
  • I have a problem. My daily laptop is a MacBook Pro, which is great unless you want to dual boot into Linux and develop on containers. While it is simple enough to install Red Hat CodeReady Containers, what I really needed was a way to run Buildah, Podman, and skopeo on macOS without having to water and feed a Linux VM.

Download VirtualBox. If you don’t already have VirtualBox, download it here for your platform of choice. Once you are configured, we will be all set to get started. Creating your RHEL VM in VirtualBox. The steps are pretty simple. We need to start by creating our new machine. Set the OS type as Linux, and choose Red Hat 64-bit for the version. Automating Guest Additions on Windows Guests with Red Hat Virtualization Application Provisioning Tool(APT) 4. Additional Configuration. Configuring Single Sign-On for Virtual Machines. Configuring Single Sign-On for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machines Using IPA (IdM) 4.1.2. Feb 28, 2010 This tutorial shows you how to set up a RedHat Fedora installation in Sun VirtualBox using Mac OS X (though you could use Windows if you want). Eventually this will become part of a tutorial on.

Of course you should also have installed VirtualBox on your machine.

Create Virtual Machine

We first need to create a VirtualBox image

  1. Open virtualbox and click on “New”
  1. Enter the following informations
    • Name : RHEL 7 (or anything else, it’s up to you)
    • Type : Linux
    • Version : Red Hat (64-bit)
  2. Choose Memory Size (4 GB in my case)
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  1. Create The disk image (where the datas will be stored) (I use 8.0 GB in a dynamically allocated size)
  1. Then click on create
  2. The Virtual Image is now created we need to install the OS

Install RedHat Enterprise Linux 7

Add DVD to Image

On the Image in Virtual Box, right click and choose settings:

Then go to the “Storage Menu” and click on “Empty” below “Controller: IDE” Then on the 💿 icon and click on 'Choose Virtual Optical Disk File…'

Select the RHEL DVD BINARY ISO

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Click Ok

Start RHEL Installation

❗️ Remember that to have your mouse out of the VM you need to press the 'HOST key' which is the left 'COMMAND' key of the keyboard on a MAC

Now you can start the virtual machine and install RHEL on it

So now you have to follow the instructions … here is what I did, maybe you will have to adapt to your needs …

Configure the network, in my case I use default configuration, and I changed the host name to rhel.local :

Then configure the disk, I use all disk, and automatic partitionning

Now start the installation by clicking 'Begin Installation button …

Change Root Password (I used “password” … 😉 )

And I created a user : remi with sudo access (click on “Make the user an admonistrator”).

Now Reboot …

Then you can login …

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Configure VirtualBox for SSH

As the network of the virtual machine is, by default with virtual box, natted to your host, if you want to access your Virtual machine through SSH for exemple, you need to use Port Forwarding :

When the Virtual machine is running, you can click on the small network icon at the bottom of the window, and click 'Network Settings' :

Then in the adpater configuration, unfold “Advanced” settings, and click on 'Port Forwarding'

And add a port forwarding from port 2222 of your local computer to the port 22 (ssh) of the virutal machine :

Then open a terminal and type the following command to connet to your redhat system

Register your RedHat System

Of course you need to have a valid registration from redhat.

  1. Login on your platform
  2. Sudo to root
  3. Execute Registration :
  1. Try to install wget …
  1. List all available subscription :
  1. Attach your system to the pool :

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  1. Install wget :

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Ok, so now you can use your system.