HON95-wiki/virt/virtualbox.md

---

title: VirtualBox breadcrumbs:

• title: Virtualization, Containerization and Orchestration --- {% include header.md %}

libvirt is a tool for managing platform virtualization like KVM and QEMU (among others). I'll only focus on using it with KVM (and QEMU) here.

Installation

Arch Linux

1. Enable Intel VT/AMD-V and other virtualization features in hypervisor's BIOS settings.
2. Install stuff: sudo pacman -S virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-arch virtualbox-guest-iso
3. Enable extra network modules: Add vboxnetadp annd vboxnetflt as lines in /etc/modules-load.d/vbox.conf, then update initramfs with mkinitcpio -P (unknown if this is required).
4. Give yourself extra permissions: sudo usermod -aG vboxusers $(whoami)
5. Disable network range check for created networks: echo "* 0.0.0.0/0 ::/0" | sudo tee /etc/vbox/networks.conf

Usage

Storage

• Generally use the VDI disk type, unless you need interoperability with other things.
• Resize VM disk: VBoxManage modifyhd <disk>.vdi --resize <size-in-MB>

{% include footer.md %}