Starting slax os in virtual box using VBoxManage commandline.

hi,

Today i was told to study the virtual box command line functions. I studied a little bit.

And i thought its time to try and start a VM( Virtual Machine ) through command line.

I hope you already installed Virtual box in your system.

This is just a basic setup for a os. so there is only 7 commands to start a VM.

So lets get started,.....

open terminal...

First command  : To create a VM.

   $VBoxManage createvm --name "slax try" --ostype Linux --register

This first command tells the virtual box to create a VM named "slax try", then ostype. slax is a linux based os  so "Linux"( make sure L is caps otherwise Vbox will bang you with error). register helps to register the created VM with Vbox.

Second command  : To add memory and other essential things to VM.

    $VBoxManage modifyvm "slax try" --memory 512 --acpi on --nic1 nat
--audio pulse --audiocontroller ac97

This command modifies the "slax try" VM with 512 MB RAM, enabling ACPI, NAT ,pulse audio and its controller.

Third command : creating hard disk for VM.

    $VBoxManage createhd --filename "slaxhd.vdi" --size 3072

The third command used to create a file which will act as a hard disk for created "slax try" VM. You have to give a name for the hard disk file with .vdi extension. then specify how much space you wanna allocate for the had disk( in MB).

Fourth command : creating storage controller.

   $VBoxManage storagectl "slax try" --name "IDE Controller" --add ide
--controller PIIX4

This command helps to name the controller and add ide and its controller to VM.

Fifth command : attaching Hard Disk storage to storage controller.

    $VBoxManage storageattach "slax try" --storagectl "IDE Controller"
--port 0 --device 0 --type hdd --medium "slaxhd.vdi"

This command attaches the storage controller to the VM hard disk.

Sixth command :  attaching dvddrive to storage controller.

    $VBoxManage storageattach "slax try" --storagectl "IDE Controller"
--port 0 --device 1 --type dvddrive --medium
/media/7AD4E860D4E8205D/zen/slax-6.1.2.iso

Seventh ( last )  command: starting the created VM.

       $VBoxManage startvm "slax try" --type gui

Have fun :)