I configured “Installation Destination”, “Root Password”, and “User Creation” for this time.Īfter configuration, click “Begin Installation”.Īfter installation, click “Reboot System”.Īccept the license and click “FINISH CONFIGURATION”. When the following window appears, fix the options marked with a color. Select any language you use in the next window.
iso file for “IDE Secondary Device 0”.Ī new window will appears. In the “Storage” section, specify the downloaded. iso file, mount it in the VM on VirtualBox. The file is about 10GB and took about 20 minutes or more to download.Īfter downloading the. I selected CentOS Stream 8(x86_64) for this time.Īny mirror will do, but you need to download CentOS-Stream-8-x86_64-YYYYMMDD-dvd1.iso. In order to run CentOS on a VM, you have to download the image from. The following is an overview of the VM I created. Start VirtualBox and click “New” to create a VM.
Install the dmg for OS X hosts from then run VirtualBox.pkg.įollow the instructions and VirtualBox will appear on /Applications.
This is my note on running CentOS Stream 8 via VirtualBox on MacOS. I may, eventually, see if qemu is faster, but that's even more arcane, so it's not likely in the short term.Run CentOS Stream 8 on VirtualBox(Intel Mac) In short, it does so much of what I need it to do that the commercial competitors don't have an appeal for me. I sometimes wonder if VMWare Fusion would be worth it, for the raw device support, etc., but I understand that it can be configured in VirtualBox, with patience and Terminal-fu.
For free (I, too, was tired of the "subscription model" annual upgrade pleas/threats), I really have to try to find a problem with it.
Parallels seems to virtualize Mac OS more smoothly. It works well with most Linuxes I throw at it (have had some issues with Linux Mint and video drivers). I triple boot on my MacBook, but may toss that for using virtualized PCs. Two-way clipboard support just works, and the granular control over the emulated hardware (how many cores, how much RAM, what size drive, etc.) makes it sweet for testing system parameters. It's not quite as nice to configure as Parallels, but once it's running it's fantastic. What can be said has mostly been said, but I'll chime in.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Mac hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.
Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use.