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guitardude3
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Problems installing Virtural Box.
#17031120 - 10/14/12 06:21 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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I was following the advice from this post, and I am stuck where you install a new OS for the virtual drive. I downloaded Ubuntu but I get a No Boot Medium Found:Fatal screen when trying to run VB. When I point VB to the CD I have Ubuntu loaded on, there is no file found. There is a file link, but nothing in it. Anyone know what's up?
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Re: Problems installing Virtural Box. [Re: guitardude3]
#17046466 - 10/17/12 02:54 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Download the iso and use that as the install medium. Or if you still have the iso from when you downloaded it just point it to that. No CD needed, and it installs much more quickly from your HD.
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Re: Problems installing Virtural Box. [Re: guitardude3]
#17049479 - 10/17/12 04:21 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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guitardude3 said: I was following the advice from this post, and I am stuck where you install a new OS for the virtual drive. I downloaded Ubuntu but I get a No Boot Medium Found:Fatal screen when trying to run VB. When I point VB to the CD I have Ubuntu loaded on, there is no file found. There is a file link, but nothing in it. Anyone know what's up?
Had the same problem on OS X. Stop the VM if you have started it. Click on the CD/DVD-ROM under Details section. Check the "Allow Passthrough" box. Save the settings.
Restart the VM and it should work. If not, post back and we will go from there.
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Re: Problems installing Virtural Box. [Re: gshock50]
#17054060 - 10/18/12 11:24 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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I use VMWare personally and find it a bit easier to use. There are plenty of guides on setting up Tor on it with the Vidalia bundle and Polipo. Set the network adapter to NAT and Polipo to route everything through Tor which runs on startup.
Some of the Linux builds are really difficult for people that aren't familiar with that OS. It was what kept me away from AOS in the first place, that and they don't update fast enough(or anymore).
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Re: Problems installing Virtural Box. [Re: 5HTSynaptrip]
#17057067 - 10/18/12 06:52 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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With that in mind, does VMWare do the same thing as VB? If it's a whole lot easier to use, I might just go with VMWare. I just want to make sure it's worth it after getting this far with VB already.
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Re: Problems installing Virtural Box. [Re: guitardude3]
#17063653 - 10/19/12 07:43 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Are you on an Intel or AMD platform? I'm not sure if it matters, but I've been Intel since 2004 and their VM support at the CPU level is amazing. I imagine Virtual Box using VTx just the same.
Anyway, it's simpler to build something like a VM using a Windows OS if you're not familiar with Linux. I use VMWare Workstation 8 and it's pretty easy to do things simply using the manual/guide in the software and online. For my Win XP VM's I set:
Memory: 4 GB CPU: 4 (this depends on the type of cpu you have, but I have an i7-950 with hyper threading enabled) Hard Disk: 24 GB(IDE) this will expand though as you use the VM. CD/DVD: Auto-Detect(IDE) Network Adapter: NAT Sound Card: Auto-Detect Video: Auto-Detect
Then I use the actual Vidalia bundle, not the Tor browser bundle. I then setup the proxy software, Polipo, and have Tor set to run on system startup. For security purposes my VM's are on external SSDs/HDDs that are encrypted using Truecrypt. If you want this for Tor only then it's good to disable Java, but you can also set it up to run through Tor in the Java console from the Windows Control Panel.
So once you make your VM and only have the OS installed, you can then install whatever software you want and configure it all. Zip the VM and burn it to DVD for a backup if you wish. Things will obviously need updated. What I do though is create a file container using Truecrypt that I store all of my usernames/passwords, PGP keys, and anything of importance. These things only reside in that encrypted container, which you have to mount using a passphrase to access the items in it. For example I use Password Safe for usernames and generating complex passwords. That database is stored in the Truecrypt file container. What you can do though is setup a Dropbox account on Tor and sync that file container while it's not in use(you can also just back it up to a flash drive or CD). Almost all of these things that you will want to keep safe are very small. My file container is only 15mb. So if I need to wipe everything quickly or want to update the VM from scratch I can just get that file-container from a flash drive or from Dropbox.
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