creating a virtual machine

install Virtualbox

Virtualbox is available for serveral platforms. There is a manual for installing VBox.

Here is an example installation of VirtualBox 3.2.8 on Windows:

implement OpenSUSE virtual machine

• Download OpenSUSE 11.2 x86 virtual box preconfigured image folder
• username/password for VM: opensuse/reverse
• image contains network installation, guest additions installed
• decompress image-download opensuse-11.2-x86.7z with 7zip/p7zip
• create the following folder structure in your personal folder and put the files contained in image to the correct locations:

C:\Users\otmanix\.VirtualBox
                 ├───HardDisks
                     └───opensuse-11.2-x86.vdi
                 └───Machines
                     └───opensuse-11.2-x86
                         └───opensuse-11.2-x86.xml

After that register virtual machine and virtual disk to VirtualBox. Open command prompt / shell:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

C:\Users\otmanix>“C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\vboxmanage” openmedium disk “C:\Users\otmanix\.VirtualBox\HardDisks\opensuse-11.2-x86.vdi”
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.8
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

C:\Users\otmanix>“C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\vboxmanage” registervm “C:\Users\otmanix\.VirtualBox\Machines\opensuse-11.2-x86\opensuse-11.2-x86.xml”
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.8
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Start VirtualBox and you will see:

There are some settings in the preconfigured VM which have to be modified:

• increase RAM size (at least 800MB)
• if your PC has plenty of CPU cores, increase the CPU count
• add an additional disk for /opt mount point where MHVTL will be located (20GB) and for /aftd mount point which Networker diskbackup will use (10GB)
• change network to bridged in order to be able to connect your test backup VM to your real network and backup a real system…

After doing the changes the settings should look like this: