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Modern Computer Architecture and Organization Second Edition, by Jim Ledin. Published by Packt Publishing.

Chapter 12, Exercise 1

Download and install the current version of VirtualBox. Download, install, and bring up Ubuntu Linux as a virtual machine within VirtualBox. Connect the guest OS to the Internet using a bridged network adapter. Configure and enable clipboard sharing and file sharing between the Ubuntu guest and your host operating system.

Answer

  1. Download the VirtualBox 6.1 (or later version) installer from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. Be sure to select the version appropriate for your host operating system.

  2. Run the VirtualBox installer and accept the default prompts.

  3. Download a VirtualBox image of 64-bit Ubuntu Linux. One source for such an image is https://www.osboxes.org/ubuntu/. If the image is in a compressed format, uncompress it. Use 7-zip (https://www.7-zip.org/) if the filename ends with .7z. After unzipping, the VirtualBox disk image filename will have the extension .vdi.

  4. Start VirtualBox Manager and click the New icon. Give the new machine a name, such as Ubuntu, select Linux as the type, and select Ubuntu (64-bit) as the version. Click Next.

  5. In the Memory size dialog, accept the default memory size (or increase it if you prefer).

  6. In the Hard disk dialog, select Use an existing virtual hard disk file. Click the Browse button (it looks like a folder), then click the Add button in the Hard disk selector dialog. Navigate to the .vdi file you downloaded and select Open. Click Create to finish creating the virtual machine.

  7. Click the Settings icon in VirtualBox. In the General section, Advanced tab, select Bidirectional for Shared Clipboard.

  8. Click Network. In the Adapter 1 tab, select Bridged Adapter next to Attached to:.

  9. Create a folder on the Windows disk named share in your Documents folder. Click Shared Folders in the VirtualBox Manager Settings dialog for your Ubuntu VM. Click the icon to add a shared folder (it looks like a folder with a plus on it). Select the share folder you just created on the host computer, set the Folder Name to share_folder and click OK.

  10. Click OK in the Settings dialog to close it.

  11. Click the Start icon to start the virtual machine. When the Ubuntu system finishes booting, login with password osboxes.org.

  12. After login has finished, open a terminal window by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T.

  13. In the VM terminal, install software packages with the following commands. Respond to the prompts to complete the installation.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc make perl
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` dkms

  1. In the Devices menu of the Ubuntu VM window, select Insert Guest Additions CD Image.... Respond to the prompts to complete the installation. Reboot the VM after installation completes.

  2. Log in to the VM and open a terminal window. In the VM terminal, create a directory named share with the following command:

mkdir share
  1. Enter the following command in the VM terminal to mount the shared folder:
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 share_folder ~/share
  1. Create a file in the shared folder on the Ubuntu system:
cd ~/share
touch file1.txt
  1. On the Windows host, verify that file1.txt is now present in your Documents\share directory.