Now click on the tiny floppy disk icon with the “+” symbol (you might need to unselect specific entries in the storage tree to have it not grayed out, as it is in the above screen capture). To add a device, however, you’ll want to click on “Storage” along the top row.Īlmost there. Click the Open button in the file select dialog.
CREATE VIRTUAL OPTICAL DISK FILE ON MAC ISO
Lots of things to tweak for a given OS, actually: Click Storage in the left panel, then click Empty laser disk in right panel Storage Devices area, then click the Optical Drive icon, and click Choose Virtual Optical Disk File menu item to open select file dialog, choose the Mojave or high sierra iso file just created or downloaded. Now that it’s not running, click on the “Settings” gear icon on the top left of this window. The Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager window should then show it as “Powered Off”, as Solaris shows here: Click “OK” then power down your Linux system exactly as if it were on a computer of its own. Fail to do so, and you’ll get an error like this when you try to connect the virtual DVD to the system: If you haven’t tried VirtualBox yet, it’s quite impressive as a virtualization environment, and while it might have less bells and whistles than Parallels or VMWare Fusion, it’s hard to beat the price, and it really does work just fine for many situations where you need a different OS virtualized rather than as an alternative boot OS.Īs with the two better known commercial options, VirtualBox requires that you power down the virtual machine to make any modifications, and that’s really key to what you want to accomplish. Nicely done! I’m actually running something even more improbable on my Mac system through Oracle’s free-to-download VirtualBox system: Solaris 11.
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