mSOA Reference Architecture VirtualBox image guide

Getting the VirtualBox image running

1. Copy the image to your hard disk and if necessary, uncompress it.
2. Install VirtualBox. This can be downloaded from http://www.virtualbox.org. The demo was built with version 1.6.2 but any later version should work.
3. Run the New Virtual Machine wizard.
   1. Supply a name (“msoa” might be a good choice).
   2. OS Type should be Fedora
   3. There are many components running inside the image, so you will need to allocate a generous amount of memory to the virtual machine. If you are not planning to run any of the design-time components (Java CAPS/NetBeans), you may be able to get away with 1Gb here. Otherwise, add as much as you can spare.
   4. When you are prompted to select the Boot Hard Disk, choose “Existing…”
   5. Add the VDI file you saved in step 1
   6. Continue through the dialogs until the virtual machine has been created.
   7. Change the advanced options / extended features so that “Enable ACPI” is disabled and “Enable IO APIC” is enabled.
   8. Start it!

Login information

1. The user you should be using is “msoa”, with the password “msoa”.
2. The root password, should you need it is “root01”.

Some notes to help you with VirtualBox if you are not familiar, and don’t want to read the instructions:

1. There is a special key which VirtualBox calls the ‘Host’ key. By default, it’s the right CTRL key.
2. If the virtual machine is running in a window, and you can’t move the mouse out of the window, you need to press the Host key.
3. To toggle between windowed and full-screen mode, press HOST+f
4. Although the Fedora 8 linux installation is running with a journaled filesystem, please shut everything down cleanly when you’re done with the image. This is accessed from System -> Shut Down in the menu bar.
5. Screen resolution should be automatically set to the window size, but if for some reason this doesn’t work for you (e.g. you upgraded the kernel and haven’t re-installed the VirtualBox guest addons), it can be changed through System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Screen Resolution.

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