Hello, I have been attempting to install SL6 in VirtualBox today, but I'm not having much luck. I'm running the VB app on Windows XP, i386.
I did find some virtual disk images here that looked promising. http://virtualboximages.com/VirtualBox+Scientific+Linux+Images The problems are that... 1) I'm not running x86_64 so I can't use the most recent free images. The newest one for i386 is 5.x but I'd like to use some version of SL6. 2) The one I'd prefer to use costs money to download from the linked site. I would prefer to run VB on Linux, actually, and I have access to an x86_64 Linux machine. But I ran into some mysterious "dependency hell" issues there attempting to install it, whereas the VB app on Windows "just worked". So I'll try there for the time being. Anyone have any general tips or suggestions? Has the SL Linux team thought about distributing SL VirtualBox images, if they don't already? This is a really useful tool for getting a working system in a short time frame and/or when one doesn't have a spare machine on which is install SL as the primary OS. Or if anyone knows how to create the VirtualBox disk images from any of the ISOs distributed on the SL site, please let me know how, and I will try it out. --Jeremy
