User Virtualbox Os X As Bootable Medium For Other Machine
Latia Shiels
This of course can only be done in case you had included this drive's image in the virtual box machine's "Storage" settings where you can attach the VDI image of your installation to either a virtual IDE, or a virtual SATA port:
Although I have accepted the answers above, I realize that from the point of view of a complete noob to linux and operating systems in general, the concept of images ,ISO files etc is still confusing. I remember it taking me a while even after reading them. Primarily because Ubuntu had been installed on my PC by a friend, and I had zero experience there.
When you install VirtualBox, it does not automatically come with the ability to run all the listed operatings systems (as I used to think ). An external file called the ISO or system image file is needed.This is the "bootable medium " referenced above .It generally has the .iso file extension. This file can be found on the website of the OS you want, and must be downloaded. This file is also used if you actually want to install the particular OS on your PC/laptop.
Possible solutions. Burn another bootable CD/DVD disc or create a bootable ISO disk image correctly and try to boot again. Check the media you have inserted into the optical drive attached to the VM. Sometimes the wrong disc may have been inserted by mistake. Verify the checksum of your file after downloading the ISO image by comparing it with the reference checksum on the source site.
Sometimes a VM cannot boot from an ISO image when the hard disk on which the ISO image is stored gets damaged. If some fragments of the ISO disk image are located on bad (damaged) blocks of the HDD (hard disk drive), the ISO file can become unreadable, and a VM will not be bootable from this ISO file.
Possible solutions. Download another ISO installation image, clone a physical DVD disk to the ISO image, or create a new ISO bootable image manually. For example, how to manually create a bootable macOS installation ISO image is explained in the blog post about installing macOS on VMware ESXi. Unfortunately, in most cases, it is impossible to repair a corrupted ISO file stored on a damaged HDD.
VirtualBox allows VMs to use a physical CD/DVD drive of the host machine that can be connected to a VM in settings. Scratches and dirt on optical CD/DVD discs can make the disc data unreadable. This situation is made worse if the scratches are located near the center of the optical disc where the table of contents is recorded as well as the lead-in area that includes information about disc tracks and sectors of the CD/DVD disc.
Possible solutions. Insert the appropriate bootable media into the virtual CD/DVD drive of the VM and reset (restart) the virtual machine. The detailed steps for checking the bootable media for your VM are as follows:
In the screenshot below, you can see that the optical drive of the VM is empty. In this case, it is necessary to choose a virtual optical disk ISO file or select the host optical drive with a physical optical CD or DVD disc inserted.
If you use a VM to boot from a live CD/DVD each time, select the Live CD/DVD checkbox. When this option is enabled, a virtual CD/DVD disk image (ISO) is not removed from the virtual CD/DVD drive when the eject command is sent from the guest operating system. Hence, if you reboot the VM with the selected Live CD/DVD checkbox, a VM will boot from the same ISO disk image. Otherwise, the virtual CD/DVD drive of the VM will be empty after ejecting from the guest OS (operating system) and further VM reboot, and you can get the fatal error in VirtualBox: No bootable medium found! System Halted.
This can occur if you are looking to boot from the virtual disk where the OS is already installed, but the virtual optical drive is selected as a boot device, and the virtual hard disk is not selected as a boot disk in the boot order list.
Another case for the No bootable medium found in VirtualBox fatal error is when a virtual optical drive with a higher boot order contains the unbootable media. The disk drive that contains the correct boot image has the lower boot priority and is disabled.
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I am trying to install arch 64 as a guest into virtualbox with ubuntu 32 bit as the host. I honestly have no idea what the problem could be, I have been cranking at this for days. I have tried removing the whole virtual disc drive and even manually pressing f12 and 1 at boot and still nothing.
I remember that my PC rebooted when I tried a 64 bit copy of Windows 7 in VirtualBox (Arch i686 host). So my advice is to install Arch i686, or install (or upgrade to?) Ubuntu 64 bit as the host OS, if the CPU supports it.
I have made a personal commitment not to reply in topics that start with a lowercase letter. Proper grammar and punctuation is a sign of respect, and if you do not show any, you will NOT receive any help (at least not from me).
Yes my hardware supports virtualization, my cpu is an AMD phenom 1090T, mobo is an asus crosshair formular IV. Installation of the 32bit version of arch failed as well. I will go into my bios and look around for some virtualization options, maybe somthing got changed.
No errors output during execution (or at least important ones AFAIK), I have my console output for that bit. I am using GPT, and AFAIK, I have read nothing of setting a bootable flag for it, ill try another complete reinstall of arch doing this.
This is not true per the VB manual, although I will further look at my bios settings and such. Additionally my OS is 32bit, not my cpu. My cpu/mobo config is a 1090T/crosshair formula IV. I also have tried and failed to install the arch 32 as well. I will look into using Ubuntu 64 as I actually accidentally installed 32 bit and didn't realize it until I was already comfortable.
The message regarding the SMBus address has greeted me during all my years of Arch under VirtualBox, so I guess it's harmless. Nice job documenting/automating the installation. And I guess this one can be marked as solved?
In Manjaro I have an Oracle VM Virtual Box. and there is another Linux in it, I launch this Linux and on the black screen the inscription No bootable medium found system halted after that it does not work I can not acquire root rights and enter the Linux command line on the VM Please tell me what to do Thank you in advance
I use VirtualBox frequently to create virtual machines for testing new versions of Fedora, new application programs, and lots of administrative tools like Ansible. I have even used VirtualBox to test the creation of a Windows guest host.
Never have I ever used Windows as my primary operating system on any of my personal computers or even in a VM to perform some obscure task that cannot be done with Linux. I do, however, volunteer for an organization that uses one financial program that requires Windows. This program runs on the office manager's computer on Windows 10 Pro, which came preinstalled.
This financial application is not special, and a better Linux program could easily replace it, but I've found that many accountants and treasurers are extremely reluctant to make changes, so I've not yet been able to convince those in our organization to migrate.
This set of circumstances, along with a recent security scare, made it highly desirable to convert the host running Windows to Fedora and to run Windows and the accounting program in a VM on that host.
The physical computer already had a 240GB NVMe m.2 storage device installed in the only available m.2 slot on the motherboard. I decided to install a new SATA SSD in the host and use the existing SSD with Windows on it as the storage device for the Windows VM. Kingston has an excellent overview of various SSD devices, form factors, and interfaces on its web site.
That approach meant that I wouldn't need to do a completely new installation of Windows or any of the existing application software. It also meant that the office manager who works at this computer would use Linux for all normal activities such as email, web access, document and spreadsheet creation with LibreOffice. This approach increases the host's security profile. The only time that the Windows VM would be used is to run the accounting program.
Before I did anything else, I created a backup ISO image of the entire NVMe storage device. I made a partition on a 500GB external USB storage drive, created an ext4 filesystem on it, and then mounted that partition on /mnt. I used the dd command to create the image.
I installed the new 500GB SATA SSD in the host and installed the Fedora 32 Xfce spin on it from a Live USB. At the initial reboot after installation, both the Linux and Windows drives were available on the GRUB2 boot menu. At this point, the host could be dual-booted between Linux and Windows.
Now I needed some information on creating a VM that uses a physical hard drive or SSD as its storage device. I quickly discovered a lot of information about how to do this in the VirtualBox documentation and the internet in general. Although the VirtualBox documentation helped me to get started, it is not complete, leaving out some critical information. Most of the other information I found on the internet is also quite incomplete.
First, I installed the most recent version of VirtualBox on the Linux host. VirtualBox can be installed from many distributions' software repositories, directly from the Oracle VirtualBox repository, or by downloading the desired package file from the VirtualBox web site and installing locally. I chose to download the AMD64 version, which is actually an installer and not a package. I use this version to circumvent a problem that is not related to this particular project.
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