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• 1 Introduction
• 2 Install
• 3 Configuration

1 Introduction

Virtual-box allows to share the ethernet card amongs several operating system. This is usefull as the python code use qt4 that is not available on Scientific Linux 5.5.

2 Install

• Ubuntu:

  $ cat /proc/cpu | grep svm (tell if cpu allow virtalization)
  # aptitude install virtualbox-ose (Open Source Edition)
  # aptitude install virtualbox-ose-dkms (for virtualization: Debian Kernel Management System)
  # aptitude install virtualbox-guest-additions (for mouse caption between Linux and Windows)
  $ VirtualBox
  

• SLC55: From http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads choose ``Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ("RHEL5") / Oracle Linux 5 ("OL5") / CentOS 5 i386''.

  $ wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.10/VirtualBox-4.0-4.0.10_72479_rhel5-1.i386.rpm
  # rpm ...
  

3 Configuration

• use 892MB of RAM and 20GB for HD.
• Add serial port COM1 (unconnected).
• Iso are store here:

  $ find /data2/VM
  /data2/VM/xpkeys.txt
  /data2/VM/shared
  /data2/VM/iso/llrxpsp2.iso
  /data2/VM/iso/office2003.iso
  /data2/VM/snapshots
  /data2/VM/vdisks/winxp.vdi
  

• VBoxGuestAdditions.iso should be automaticly provide into CD images.
• From VirtualBox, select the iso and run it into Windows.
• update Windows to SP3
• defined a shared folder using the GUI and copy into your SVN private key
• you should retrieve it from Windows into the ``network favorite folders''

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