Hiring a hypervisor

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 10 min

Questions

• How do I install VirtualBox?

Objectives

• Download and install VirtualBox, the hypervisor for CMS VMs.

Helpline

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Downloading VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a free, open source and multiplatform hypervisor application to run virtual machines. The latest version is 6.1.22 and is available for most platforms at the VirtualBox download site. Note that you will need administrative permissions on your machine in order to install it.

As described here, the latest tested version of VirtualBox working with this CMS-specific CernVM image is 6.1.10. Pick that one if you have troubles with the latest version. The full history of VirtualBox versions is available on a different page.

Installing VirtualBox

Find your way to install VirtualBox!

Now go ahead with the installation! After you download the appropriate installer file, proceed as you would with any other program in your system. It shouldn’t take long. Afterwards, you can open the program, just to test it has been installed correctly.

Meet your hypervisor

If installed correctly, after opening the program a window similar to this one should emerge:

Key Points

• To install VirtualBox in your machine (the host), follow the installation instructions and run them in your device.