vm intro vb finnix

Introduction to using VMs with VirtualBox

This is a very general tool, we are using a very small and simple system at first to boot a live image for our demonstration.

Learning to use this tool will allow you to try almost any OS that provides an image for this architecture. (If the architecture is emulated [eg, ARM, MIPS running on an x86/arm64 host] it will be too slow for many uses. Hardware virtualization is fast for another OS on the same processor type.)

• Go to finnix.org
• Find the x86/amd64 image 111
• download it
• locate it on your computer
  • in D:\Users\<netid>\Downloads
  • otherwise, move it
• start VirtualBox
• delete old VM
• click New to create new VM
• name everything 'finnix'
  • name the VM 'finnix'
  • name the new drive image finnix
  • (if you were installing, would name user account this way to match)
• attach a CD image
• boot
• observe

(optional) Some other small Linux images one can also try:

http://wikka.puppylinux.com/HomePage

http://damnsmalllinux.org/download.html

http://tinycorelinux.net/downloads.html

http://www.slitaz.org/en/get/

http://minimal.linux-bg.org/#download

https://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal/releases