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Fedora 14 Virtual Box Installation on Mac OS X 10.9

• Set up for the SCEC CME Configuration:

Virtual Box Software

• Install VB v4.3.18

Download Fedora 14

• While current Fedora is v20, some VB features like guest additions work best on older versions of fedora
  • Machine name: scecbbp
  • Machine type: Linux - Fedora (64Bit)
• Use the Default System except:
  • Set Base Memory to 2048MB
  • Set FileSystem type VDI
  • set dynamically allocated
  • Size: 71.31GB dynamic (does not need to be exactly this value)
• After machine is created, select "Settings", "Display"
  • Increase video memory to 32MB
• Define a shared folder location on host system
  • Select a folder on host system called "share"
• Download "Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso" onto Mac hard drive
  • Load it into VB
  • Select the "Fedora 14 iso image downloaded above", and then click "OK"
• Boot (Start) the new machine and the Fedora 14 installation will begin
  • Select "install a new system or upgrade..."
• Skip the media test
• When warning dialog asking about re-initializing device pops-up, select "Re-Initialize All"
• Machine name: "scecbbp"
• Select "Los Angeles" time zone
• Root password set to: "scecbbp2014"
• Installation type: "Use all space"
  • Select the review and Customize box at the bottom of page
  • Delete the /home partition and make the / partition larger to use the space used by /home. Set it to Max size shown on screen
• When it prompts for software to install
  • Select Customize Now
  • Edit source (from http to DVD)
  • Select "Software Development" and
  • add "Fedora 14 - x86_64" and "Fedora 14 - x86_64 Updates"
  • to add these, modify repository by changing url from https to http
• Actual installation begins...
• After machine reboots...
• User setup
  • Username: scecbbp
  • Fullname: Broadband Platform
  • Password: sceccme
  • advanced settings and added this users to the wheel group
• Installation ends!
• Open terminal window
• Set up sudo access for user cme
  • su - (to become root)
  • visudo
  • Find the line that says
  • ROOT ALL=(ALL) ALL
  • under that line add the line
    • Add line at the end: "scecbbp ALL=(ALL) ALL"
• Error on sudo yum install
  • edit /etc/yum.repo.d/ files. Comment in the base url, and remove https and add http for mirrors.
  • This changes seems related to where image is originally loaded from, and this was needed
  • to get it to work from mac disk image.
  • edit /etc/yum.repos.d files to comment in baseurl and change https to http for mirror sites
• Install missing Python dependencies for BBP and UCVM
  • sudo yum install numpy scipy python-matplotlib python-basemap
• Disable the sendmail daemon
  • sudo chkconfig sendmail off
  • Install Pyproj
  • Download Pyproj from https://pyproj.googlecode.com/files/pyproj-1.8.9.tar.gz
  • untar, then run "sudo python ./setup.py install"
• Install the Virtual Box guest additions (from http://www.sysprobs.com/install-fedora-15-virtualbox-steps-install-virtualbox-guest-additions-fedora-15)
  • sudo yum install dkms
  • Select "Devices" -> "Insert Guest Additions CD image..."
  • sudo su -
  • cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_<VERSION_NUMBER>
  • sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
  • Reboot!

• Setting up a shared folder on the virtual machine
  • https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=15868
  • edit /etc/rc.local to automount
  • mount -t vboxsf share /home/<username>/host