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| This page describes the process of installing MINIX 3 on VirtualBox. | This page describes the process of installing MINIX 3 on VirtualBox. | ||
| + | Confirmed to work with | ||
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| + | ^ VirtualBox ^ Minix ^ Host-OS ^ Notes ^ | ||
| + | | 4.3.36 | 3.3.0-3234ff | Debian 3.16.36 | X not installed | ||
| + | | 4.3.36 | 3.4.0rc2-373b793 | Debian 3.16.36 | X works ok | ||
| + | | 5.2.4 | 3.4.0rc6 | Debian 10 (buster)| | ||
| ===== Preliminaries ===== | ===== Preliminaries ===== | ||
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| - Pressing **Create** will create the Disk Image and the Virtual Machine that we will run. | - Pressing **Create** will create the Disk Image and the Virtual Machine that we will run. | ||
| - Now select **MINIX3** in the list on the left. | - Now select **MINIX3** in the list on the left. | ||
| - | - Click the **Settings** button on the main screen of VirtualBox. Then click on //System// in the list on the right and tick the **Hardware Clock in UTC Time** checkbox. | ||
| - Click OK, and you are now ready to install MINIX 3! | - Click OK, and you are now ready to install MINIX 3! | ||
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| + | Troubleshooting: | ||
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| + | - If the installer fails to detect the virtual hard disk attached to a SATA controller, reconfigure the machine and attach the disk to the IDE controller. Also, make sure that the CDROM is attached to the IDE controller as well. (VirtualBox 5.1.22) | ||
| ===== Installation ===== | ===== Installation ===== | ||
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| ==== X.org ==== | ==== X.org ==== | ||
| - | FIXME: This chapter needs to be re-written, as MINIX 3.3.0 does not install Xorg by default. | + | FIXME: This chapter needs to be re-written, as MINIX 3.3.0 does not install Xorg by default, where as MINIX 3.4.0 Beta //can// start X with no additional fiddling. |
| VirtualBox's guest additions are not available for MINIX3. Therefore, MINIX cannot correctly guess the screen resolution. The desired screen resolution has to be set manually in the xorg.conf file. | VirtualBox's guest additions are not available for MINIX3. Therefore, MINIX cannot correctly guess the screen resolution. The desired screen resolution has to be set manually in the xorg.conf file. | ||
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