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Secret to Fixing Virtualbox VM ISO

seasoned_geek by seasoned_geek1

If you haven’t done it yet, you will. Setting up many VMs for testing or development will make you happy click past the ISO choice when you click start. Then startup fails because you have no media. Most people cuss, delete the new VM entry, then start again from scratch, going slower this time. You don’t have to.

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Settings->Storage

 

Choose the Empty CD icon.

empty cd image

Click the down carrot next to the CD image.

select iso image

Select “Choose Virtual Optical Disk File” then use your host file selector which pops up to select the ISO file you need.

now we have media image

 

Be sure to check the “Live CD/DVD” box so Virtualbox knows the media should be considered bootable. That’s it! Save your changes and restart your VM. After you finish the install you need to come back here and remove the ISO from the virtual CD drive.

You can also use this same method with a GParted ISO to expand your virtual disk if you run out of room.

 

 

 

Roland Hughes started his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.

A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800 pages) tome "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You Need to Know" book series was born.

Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Infinite Exposure
Lesedi - The Greatest Lie Ever Told
John Smith - Last Known Survivor of the Microsoft Wars

When he is not consulting Roland Hughes posts about technology and sometimes politics on his blog. He also has regularly scheduled Sunday posts appearing on the Interesting Authors blog.