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Ciab virtualbox #665

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Expand Up @@ -60,3 +60,39 @@ When running Cloud in a Box on a VMware vSphere/ESXi virtual machine, you can us
* Firmware set to "EFI" (VM Options > Boot Options > Firmware > choose EFI)

This configuration has been successfully tested with VMware ESXi 7.0 U1.


## VirtualBox

When running Cloud in a Box on a VirtualBox, you can use the the blow specs for configure the virtual machine:

### General:

* Type Linux
* Version Ubuntu (64-bit)

### System:

* 32GB RAM
* 8 Processors
* Enable PAE/NX
* Enable Nested VT-x/AMD-v
* Extended Feature: Enable EFI (special OSes only)

### Storage:

* Controller: SATA
* Type AHCI
* Use Host I/O Cache
* Disc Size 600 GB

* Controller: IDE
* Optical Drive: IDE Secondary Device
* Live CD/DVD
* Insert the ubuntu-autoinstall-cloud-in-a-box-1.iso image

* Boot Order: Set Optical as first boot device

This configuration has been successfully tested with VirtualBox 6.1.50 using an Ubuntu 22.04 Host with HWE Kernel 6.5.0
The more CPU, RAM and Disc the better, as this is the bare minimum for a basic installation.

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