Cloning Virtual-Box

So, hope the Installation procedure for the Virtual-Box was properly designed and there were no hiccups regarding the installation of the same in your Personal Computer’s. As to practice all the experiments we would be having just two Desktops : having 3 Virtual Machine’s a piece installed in both. Now, the question comes to our mind is creation of 3 Virtual Machine’s on a single hardware (i.e. Desktop). Yes, as you could have guessed it, its cloning of the Virtual Box.  Steps to be followed while cloning a VM are as below:

 

Installation of Virtual-Box

A series of easy and simple steps needs to be followed for the installation of Virtual-Box on our Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The foremost reason behind installation of Virtual-box is the difficulty of having so many systems to work on the different topologies mentioned in the different experiments we performed. So, here are a few basic steps required for installation :

Step 1: Add Virtual-Box repository link in apt source list .                                                                       We will edit /etc/apt/sources.list file.

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Now paste below given lines at the end of file /etc/apt/sources.list . And save the file.

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib

Step 2 : Download and add Oracle public key for apt-secure.

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Step 3 : Install DKMS package

sudo apt-get install dkms

Step 4 : Now install VirtualBox 4.3.10

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3

Step 5 : Now after installation, you can open the VirtualBox from Dashhome .
To know about Virtual-Box version click on Help >> About Virtual-Box .

 

Once the Installation has been done, we need to setup our Virtual-Box working as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Operating System. So, some configuration needs to be performed as mentioned below in form of screenshots: