virtual-box

Cloning an existing CentOS 6.3 virtual machine in VirtualBox seems to be quite easy. Right click on the machine, select clone, reinitialize the MAC addresses and create a full clone… The clone is beeing created and after starting it up – oops, no network interfaces present? Some error messages appear when trying to restart network services: To solve the issue two things must be done: 1. Delete the 70-persistent-net.rules 2. Check the MAC addresses in the interface scripts within network-scripts folder [Read More]

To transfer a virtual machine from VMWare Workstation 6.5.1 to Oracle Virtual Box 4.2.6 the virtual machine must be converted to the Open Virtualization Format. To do this VMWare offers a tool called OVF Tool. It’s available for download from the VMWare homepage. Converting a virtual machine is quite simple: In my case I used the command without any options. After that is done go to Virtual Box and import it through “Import appliance”. [Read More]