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Support #930

Install Standard Alpine Linux as VirtualBox Guest

Added by Daniel Curtis over 6 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Daniel Curtis

Category:

Server

Target version:

Alpine Linux

Start date:

04/08/2018

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

1.50 h

Spent time:

1.50 h

Description

Table of contents
Install Alpine
Setup Alpine
- VirtualBox
Resources

This is a guide for installing a Standard version of the Alpine Linux distro as a VirtualBox guest. VirtualBox is expected to have the host additions already installed.

Install Alpine¶

Create a new VM and add the downloaded ISO to the Storage section.

Start the VM and wait until the login prompt appears. Username is root, password is blank.

Start the alpine setup script:
```
setup-alpine
```
- Setup the localization:
```
us
us
```
- Set the hostname:
```
alpine
```
- Next hit enter to use the automatically detected network interface.
- Next hit enter to use DHCP network interface.
- Next hit enter to skip manual network configuration.
- Set the new root password.
- Set the timezone:
```
America
```
- Set the subtimezone:
```
Los_Angeles
```
- Next hit enter to skip proxy settings.
- Next hit enter to detect the fastest repo mirror.
- Next hit enter to select the default SSH server.
- Next hit enter to select the default NTP client.
- Enter the hard drive to install Alpine to:
```
sda
```
- Choose a sys install:
```
sys
```
- Enter y to erase the hard drive:
```
y
```
- Reboot to exit the installer, make sure to remove the ISO from the Storage section of the VM:
```
reboot
```

Setup Alpine¶

Once the VM has rebooted, login as root.

Install nano:
```
apk add nano
```

Edit the apk repository mirror list:

nano /etc/apk/repositories

And enable the community repo:

http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.7/main
http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.7/community

Update the apk package metadata:
```
apk update
```

VirtualBox¶

Start by creating a shared folder on the host system, this guide uses Shared as the folder name.

Install the virtualbox guest additions:

apk add virtualbox-guest-additions virtualbox-guest-modules-hardened

Load the kernel modules:
```
modprobe -a vboxsf
```

Make a mount point and mount the shared virtualbox folder:

mkdir -p /media/shared
mount -t vboxsf Shared /media/shared

Resources¶

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