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Question: How do you find out if Guest Additions have been installed on your Linux guest running via Oracle VirtualBox on a Windows host?
Background We find this message to be ignorable when installing Guest Additions: “Could not find the X.org or XFree86 Window System, skipping.”
Answer
Go into the Linux guest and run this command:
lsmod | grep -i vbox
You should see results related to vbox.
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Problem scenario: To install Oracle VirtualBox on a Windows host, use this link. Assuming you have Oracle VirtualBox on a Windows host, you now want to create a virtual server also known as a guest machine. You want Oracle VirtualBox to run a guest Ubuntu VM so you can have access to a Linux server straight from your laptop.
Solution
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Problem scenario Your employer has no licenses for another virtual server. You need a hypervisor to host a guest VM that runs a Linux OS. Your workstation is running Windows 7 Professional. What should you do?
Solution Install Oracle VirtualBox 5.1. on your workstation. These directions are for how to install it on Windows 7 Professional.
1. Get the installation media from this
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How To Install Linux / How To Install Ubuntu Server 16
Note: The settings in the directions below are for a typical U.S. user who wants a basic Ubuntu server without strong security. You do not have to follow the directions exactly. The directions can apply to different installation target mediums (e.g., a physical server or a virtual server). The directions are great for installing Ubuntu on a virtual instance hosted by Oracle VirtualBox running on a laptop that has Windows Professional 7 (step #1-3).
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Problem Scenario
In CloudBolt (the Cloud Management Platform), you run a job to create a server. The job stops progressing. The GUI shows “Failed Order … provisioning nameOfServer” with a bar that has the left most 5% red and the rest of the 95% gray. What do you do to create the server?
Answer
The server may be created; there may have been a small error when the job ran.
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