To install a collar Linux on a virtual machine inside a virtual box.
We'll start by downloading the correct package so you can go to the Colley Web site.
Or if you're not sure what it is and type in Collie and download
and then go to the downloads page with the first link or follow the sub links and here you'll find the
images.
So starting out the top are more pure images like ISOs.
If you scroll down close to the bottom of the table you'll notice some different virtual machine images
and we're gonna pick the one for a virtual box but they all go to the same page anyway so technically
it doesn't actually matter which links you click on you're going to go out to the efforts of security
page once you reach this site.
If you scroll down just a little bit you'll see another table with the end where image is by default
which you can click this tab here to go to the virtual box images and for most systems you'll download
the 64 bit if you have a 32 bit system.
There is a link for you.
Below you're going to click this link and download the over a file once you click that you had save
file and just be sure you know where it is you're saving the file to.
OK.
And then you'll start downloading the file.
We've already downloaded the file so we're going to go over here to the downloads and we'll see our
files been downloaded.
And here's the downloaded file.
It's a large file.
It's going to take a long time to download.
Somewhere around 3 gigabytes once we get the file download and I go over here to virtual box where you
go to file an import appliance
you click on import and then click on this little folder icon here
onto the inside of the dialog we're going to click on the downloads choose our downloaded file and click
open.
If you saved your file somewhere else just follow these steps then go over your file and select it and
open it that'll put the link to your overlay file into the dialogue and then we're going to hit next.
You can change some of these settings here if you like.
One of the things you may want to go ahead and do is re initialize the MAC address of the network cards.
The reason is is in case there's two folks on your network who are both installing this same virtual
machine.
You don't want to have the same MAC address as somebody else.
This is probably rare but it's safe enough to re initialize the cards then we're going to click.
Import again this file is large and essentially what's happening is is the file is being copied from
the RBA over into the virtual box folder where your virtual machines are stored.
So this process is going to take a while.
Go ahead and let this file.
Import so round let this process continue.
When it reaches one hundred percent then we'll move onto the next step.
Looking over in the tree view on the left hand side we can see that the import process has completed
and the virtual machine is now listed on the left hand side.
At this point you can change the settings of the virtual machine while it's still powered off if you
like by clicking the settings icon and then making adjustments.
The most common adjustments would be changing the amount of RAM it's installed in the works machine.
Be careful not to increase this too much because you need to leave plenty of room for your operating
system to run.
In this case we're running on top of Windows.
We'd want to leave a couple of gigabytes for windows to be sure if not more.
The other common setting is the change the amount of this space that's available and this can be done
under the storage but you'll notice that there's a few gigabytes allocated by default.
And this is generally plenty for most users
at this point.
If you're happy with your settings you can go ahead and start your virtual machine.
So to recap where you downloaded the proper overlay file we use to file import appliance to bring the
virtual machine into the virtual box system and we waited for the import process to complete.
And now we're ready to go ahead and start up our colleague Linux virtual machine.