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| 4 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="unattended-guest-install-example">
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| 5 | <title>Using VBoxManage Commands for Unattended Guest Installation</title>
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>The following example shows how to perform an unattended guest installation for an Oracle Linux VM.
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| 8 | The example uses various <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> commands to prepare the guest VM. The
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| 9 | <userinput>VBoxManage unattended install</userinput> command is then used to install and configure the guest OS. </p>
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| 10 | <ol>
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| 11 | <li>
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| 12 | <p>Create the virtual machine. </p>
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| 13 | <pre xml:space="preserve"># VM="ol7-autoinstall"
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| 14 | # VBoxManage list ostypes
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| 15 | # VBoxManage createvm --name $VM --ostype "Oracle_64" --register</pre>
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| 16 | <p>Note the following: </p>
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| 17 | <ul>
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| 18 | <li>
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| 19 | <p>The $VM variable represents the name of the VM. </p>
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| 20 | </li>
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| 21 | <li>
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| 22 | <p>The <userinput>VBoxManage list ostypes</userinput> command lists the guest OSes
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| 23 | supported by <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, including the name used for each OS in
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| 24 | the <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> commands. </p>
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| 25 | </li>
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| 26 | <li>
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| 27 | <p>A 64-bit Oracle Linux 7 VM is created and registered with <ph
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| 28 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. </p>
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| 29 | </li>
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| 30 | <li>
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| 31 | <p>The VM has a unique UUID. </p>
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| 32 | </li>
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| 33 | <li>
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| 34 | <p>An XML settings file is generated. </p>
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| 35 | </li>
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| 36 | </ul>
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| 37 | </li>
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| 38 | <li>
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| 39 | <p>Create a virtual hard disk and storage devices for the VM. </p>
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| 40 | <pre xml:space="preserve"># VBoxManage createhd --filename /VirtualBox/$VM/$VM.vdi --size 32768
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| 41 | # VBoxManage storagectl $VM --name "SATA Controller" --add sata --controller IntelAHCI
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| 42 | # VBoxManage storageattach $VM --storagectl "SATA Controller" --port 0 --device 0 \
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| 43 | --type hdd --medium /VirtualBox/$VM/$VM.vdi
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| 44 | # VBoxManage storagectl $VM --name "IDE Controller" --add ide
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| 45 | # VBoxManage storageattach $VM --storagectl "IDE Controller" --port 0 --device 0 \
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| 46 | --type dvddrive --medium /u01/Software/OL/OracleLinux-R7-U6-Server-x86_64-dvd.iso</pre>
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| 47 | <p>The previous commands do the following: </p>
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| 48 | <ul>
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| 49 | <li>
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| 50 | <p>Create a 32768 MB virtual hard disk. </p>
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| 51 | </li>
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| 52 | <li>
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| 53 | <p>Create a SATA storage controller and attach the virtual hard disk. </p>
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| 54 | </li>
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| 55 | <li>
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| 56 | <p>Create an IDE storage controller for a virtual DVD drive and attach an Oracle Linux
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| 57 | installation ISO. </p>
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| 58 | </li>
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| 59 | </ul>
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| 60 | </li>
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| 61 | <li>
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| 62 | <p>(Optional) Configure some settings for the VM. </p>
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| 63 | <pre xml:space="preserve"># VBoxManage modifyvm $VM --ioapic on
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| 64 | # VBoxManage modifyvm $VM --boot1 dvd --boot2 disk --boot3 none --boot4 none
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| 65 | # VBoxManage modifyvm $VM --memory 8192 --vram 128</pre>
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| 66 | <p>The previous commands do the following: </p>
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| 67 | <ul>
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| 68 | <li>
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| 69 | <p>Enable I/O APIC for the motherboard of the VM. </p>
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| 70 | </li>
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| 71 | <li>
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| 72 | <p>Configure the boot device order for the VM. </p>
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| 73 | </li>
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| 74 | <li>
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| 75 | <p>Allocate 8192 MB of RAM and 128 MB of video RAM to the VM. </p>
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| 76 | </li>
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| 77 | </ul>
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| 78 | </li>
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| 79 | <li>
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| 80 | <p>Perform an unattended install of the OS. </p>
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| 81 | <pre xml:space="preserve"># VBoxManage unattended install $VM \
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| 82 | --iso=/u01/Software/OL/OracleLinux-R7-U6-Server-x86_64-dvd.iso \
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| 83 | --user=<varname>login</varname> --full-user-name=<varname>name</varname> --user-password <varname>password</varname> \
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| 84 | --install-additions --time-zone=CET</pre>
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| 85 | <p>The previous command does the following: </p>
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| 86 | <ul>
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| 87 | <li>
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| 88 | <p>Specifies an Oracle Linux ISO as the installation ISO. </p>
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| 89 | </li>
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| 90 | <li>
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| 91 | <p>Specifies a login name, full name, and login password for a default user on the guest
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| 92 | OS. </p>
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| 93 | <p>Note that the specified password is also used for the root user account on the guest. </p>
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| 94 | </li>
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| 95 | <li>
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| 96 | <p>Installs the Guest Additions on the VM. </p>
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| 97 | </li>
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| 98 | <li>
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| 99 | <p>Sets the time zone for the guest OS to Central European Time (CET). </p>
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| 100 | </li>
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| 101 | </ul>
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| 102 | </li>
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| 103 | <li>
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| 104 | <p>Start the virtual machine. </p>
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| 105 | <p>This step completes the unattended installation process. </p>
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| 106 | <pre xml:space="preserve"># VBoxManage startvm $VM --type headless</pre>
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| 107 | <p>The VM starts in headless mode, which means that the <ph
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| 108 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> window does not open. </p>
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| 109 | </li>
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| 110 | </ol>
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| 111 | </body>
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| 112 | </topic>
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