I have reinstalled my server running CentOS 5.2 and VirtualBox. In the process I have found some items that weren't documented well in the previous post VirtualBox in rc.d
I have modified the vboxcontrol script. The new script is available here.
vboxcontrol.
After setting up the script, you need to run chkconfig --add vboxcontrol
There are some portions of the CentOS 5.2 netinstall process that aren't as intuitive as I expect. So these notes are to help me next time I install CentOS.
First, make sure to disable IPv6 in the DHCP setup.
Also, when you get to the installation source, select HTTP and enter the following:
Server address: mirror.centos.org (no http://)
Directory: centos/5.2/os/i386 (no / before and after)
If any of this is slightly wrong, the installation will not complete.
I have been experimenting with Linux servers for a while now. My latest experiment was at using VirtualBox to run virtual servers. I used a helpful tutorial from howtoforge.com to guide me through the setup. After setting up VirtualBox on CentOS and installing Fedora in a VM, I wanted the Fedora VM to automatically start up and shut down when the CentOS host started up and shut down.
