VirtualBox Virtual Machine Installation CentOS 7 Graphics tutorial _virtualbox

Just to reload the virtual machine on the CentOS system, by the way to write to the novice friends to do the reference, on the Windows platform by installing virtual machines to learn Linux is basically a gateway to Linux, as a Java web Developer should have some Linux skills, Because Linux has more stability and security on the server, and operational dimensions are often an easy part of developers to ignore, it is always a bit low to run Java programs on Windows Server. So this blog will be recorded in the VirtualBox virtual machine installed Linux CentOS 7.

New Virtual machine

Because it is relatively simple, so for the VirtualBox do not do too much introduction, direct download installation can be installed, after installation to open the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, click New, select Red Hat (according to the Windows host select 32/64 bit, usually automatically recognized):

Next set the memory, in order to keep the system running smoothly I set to 2G memory:

Then create a new virtual hard disk for our virtual machine and click "Create":

Select VDI (VirtualBox disk image):

Select a fixed size:

Virtual hard disk size first to 8 g, you need to note that this is the best way to modify the path, otherwise the default will be to create a virtual hard disk in C, of course, if your system disk large enough to ignore:

We created the virtual hard disk in the VirtualBox VMS directory on the F disk:

Click Create, and finally wait for the creation to succeed:

When you are done, you can see the virtual hard disk files in the F disk directory:

The virtual machine is created, followed by an ISO disc image that loads CentOS 7.

Mount Mirror

First select the virtual machine that we just created in Oracle VM VirtualBox, and then click "Settings":

Then click System on the left menu in the Settings panel, and on the Motherboard tab, you can see the startup Order option to move the CD drive to the first, as shown in the following figure:

The next step is to add an ISO image file for the prepared Linux CentOS 7 to the virtual CD drive, with no mirrored files to download in my CSDN: CentOS 7 iso file download address, file size 4.01GB:

After you have prepared the mirrored file, you can load the mirrored file into the optical drive, the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager's Settings menu, click "Save", you can see that there is no disc, click on the small icon will pop-up prompts window, and then click "Select Disk" to find CentOS 7 of the ISO file can be completed after loading:

When the selection is complete, you can see that the CentOS platter is loaded, and then click OK:

Finally, click "Start" to start the boot installation:

Installation

Next step, click "Start", wait a moment to see the CentOS 7 installation options Interface:

As shown above, directly select the first item Install CentOS 7 Start installation, a moment will enter the graphical installation interface, first is the language choice, here Select "Chinese" "Simplified Chinese" after the point "continue":

Next is the partition settings, click "Install Location" to enter the menu, here is the 8G size of our original virtual hard disk, for simplicity we no longer partition, directly select the automatic partition and click "Finish":

Next set up the network, click "Network&host NAME", open the network and click "Finish":

Another important setting is "software Selection", the installation Environment choice for CentOS 7:

As shown above, the default is the smallest installation, that is, no graphical interface, we choose the GNOME desktop here, why should we choose a graphical interface with it? Not without the command line, but to build a more convenient operating environment, such as Gnome's own Firefox browser, you can more easily test the network, in the actual use of our more of course, through the Xshell to connect the Linux server with the command line to operate, But we have installed a number of GNOME also a number of options and convenience, this is only, of course, if the formal production environment is another matter, select Gnome and click "Finish":

The configuration before this installation is finished, and then the installation is officially started, click the "Start Install" button on the lower left to perform the installation:

As shown above, the installation started at this time, according to the prompts we have not set the root user password, and did not create any users, then we set the root user password, set up and then click "Finish":

By the way, create a user, enter the username password and click "Finish", it should be noted that the root user is always the highest privilege users, the user created by themselves need to do more in terms of permissions:

And then quietly waiting for the installation to complete:

After the installation is successful, you will be prompted to reboot and click "Reboot" to end the installation:

When the reboot is complete, the login page is entered and the user created by default is displayed:

Here we choose to log in with the root user, click "not listed?", enter the username password login:

Successfully logged on to the desktop:

Now that the installation is all over, you can start your CentOS tour:

Summarize

Simply record the entire process of VirtualBox installation CentOS 7 and hope to help novice friends who want to get started with Linux, the end.

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