ArcaOS 5.0.x OVA for VirtualBox

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi

I was wondering how useful (or not) will be to provide an empty OVA (Open Virtual Appliance) file with the settings that ArcaNoae recommends on its site. This would be for the people wanting to run ArcaOS 5.0.x on VirtualBox 7.0.4 as a guest OS.

I had been talking with other community member to do the same thing for ArcaOS 5.1 in UEFI, but I guess we will have to wait for the 5.1 to go public.

Here I'm attaching an empty VirtualBox OVA with 40GBHDD, AHCI SATA, SB16, 4GB RAM, etc. 
What would you change on the OVA to make it more "user ready" for ArcaOS 5.0.x?

Regards

[Neil Waldhauer]

I don't know how an OVA works, but I'll give it a try.

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi Neil

For people using VirtualBox on Windows, it is just as double clicking the .ova file and it will install the empty VM.

I just updated it with the "fixed" HDD image to save one reboot.

Regards

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi

I just updated the OVA trying to follow the recommendations for Arca Noae's page:
https://www.arcanoae.com/wiki/arcaos/installation-planning/virtual-machine-configuration/oracle-vm-virtualbox/

I'm open to suggestions, if someone wants to compare their VirtualBox host settings against the OVA file.

Regards

[Neil Waldhauer]

I tried to open the OVA on my Windows computer, but it complained about invalid value WAS in AudioAdapter/@driver attribute on line  124.

Only then did I actually read the readme, and I'm trying to open with Virtual Box 6.1.42 and it needs Virtual Box 7.0.8

[Neil Waldhauer]

I tried this again with VirtualBox 7.0.8. I added my .ISO of ArcaOS 5.0.7 and it booted up to the point where it needs to find the .ISO, but it can't.

[Alex Taylor]

Did you boot using USB or did you mount the ISO directly?  Glancing at the OVA config, I don't see any IDE (PIIX4) device configured, only AHCI. ISTR you need the DANI drivers loaded to boot from CD/DVD, and those require IDE/ATAPI hardware.

[Martin Iturbide]

Hi Neil

I had tried the OVA today with ArcaOS 5.0.8 and it installs with a SATA - AHCI (emulated) CD-ROM.

Try mounting the ISO CD-ROM from the CD icon at the bottom of the VM (Picture Attached), and reboot the VM. The installation process boot file from there, it does not need to be an emulated IDE CDROM, with SATA runs fine.

Regards

[david.l.hart]

I think the guest OVA archive that is imported would be initially set with the settings for network and sound card from the host that created the OVA.  You should be able to change the setting on the new host to match.  This is what I saw when I created an OVA from a Windows machine and imported it to a Mac.  The VM did boot up after I changed the configuration settings for network and sound card.

[Martin Iturbide]

Welcome David.

I think the guest OVA archive that is imported would be initially set with the settings for network and sound card from the host that created the OVA.  You should be able to change the setting on the new host to match.  This is what I saw when I created an OVA from a Windows machine and imported it to a Mac.  The VM did boot up after I changed the configuration settings for network and sound card.

I think you are right, but I don't have a Mac or Linux to try it out. I guess that taking the OVA from Windows to Windows, you will not need to change anything. But on Mac or Linux the network and sound configuration  may need to be changed. Sorry I don't have those platforms at hand to give it try.

PD: David, I took the liberty to modify your profile name to don't show your full email address on the post. I guess it will not impact your side when using the forum.