Follow each of the prompts presented to you on the screen. Once the installation is declared successful, go to your applications folder and launch VirtualBox.<\/p>\n Now that we have VirtualBox running, we need an OS to install! Our examples will use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which you will need to download from here<\/a>. We’re going to use the server<\/strong> installer, as we don’t need a GUI. To be precise, we’ll use the 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 Server<\/a>. Clicking on this link will download an ISO image which we will give to VirtualBox to create us a Linux server on which we’ll host web services development!<\/p>\n In the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager screen, click New. You’ll be prompted to identify the OS you are going to install and give it a name. We’ll use webservicedev. For Type, choose Linux<\/strong>, and for Version choose Ubuntu (64-bit)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n You’ll then be prompted to select a memory size, for the VM, the default of 512M is sufficient for our purposes. When prompted for the hard drive settings, choose Create a virtual hard drive now<\/strong>. When prompted for the hard drive file type, choose VDI (Virtual Disk Image)<\/strong>. Choose Dynamically allocated<\/strong> when prompted, and accept the defaults for the File location and size (8GB).<\/p>\n You will now see your system configured and ready to go. You need to make one adjustment here, and that is setting the initial boot device to the Ubuntu ISO image you downloaded. Select the webservicedev machine in the left-hand menu of the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager and right click and choose Settings. You’ll be presented with a menu of settings like this:<\/p>\n Click the Storage icon to see:<\/p>\n Click on the CD Entry that says Empty, and then on the right-hand side of the window, click on the little CD next to the drop-down menu for CD\/DVD Drive. Clicking on the little CD icon will give you the option to Choose a virtual CD\/DVD disk file. Select this option and use the Finder navigator to where you saved the file ubuntu-12.04.2-server-amd64.iso (most likely in the Downloads folder).<\/p>\n One last thing, click on the Network icon at the top of webservicedev settings window. Change the value ‘NAT’ under Adapter 1 to Bridged Adapter and under name, select whichever network adapter your Mac is connected to your router on. In our example, we use Wi-Fi as the only network connection for the Mac.<\/p>\n Now, click on OK to dismiss the Settings window and boot your VM! Select webservicedev in the menu and click on the big green arrow that says Start. The Ubuntu installer should boot and you can walk yourself through the installer. Our example will be using English, but make selections appropriate for you!<\/p>\n After selecting the Language, choose Install Ubuntu Server and then follow the prompts and make the selections appropriate for your language, keyboard layout, etc. Here are the values we used when installing:<\/p>\n Continue the prompts to partition the disk, if you need help or have questions about the Ubuntu installer there are plenty of guides on the web. This one<\/a> you might find to be helpful. In general for development systems on your local machine, you don’t need fancy partitioning. If you find yourself as the server administrator for production servers, you might bone up on advanced partitioning schemes.<\/p>\n When prompted about an HTTP proxy, you most likely can leave it blank, unless you really need one (in which case you should be familiar with filling out this kind of information).<\/p>\n When prompted about managing upgrades and updates, choose No automatic updates (this is our personal preference).<\/p>\n When prompted, you will definitely want to install OpenSSH server<\/em>, and you can skip the rest for now. There are number of packages we’ll install after the system initially boots.<\/p>\n Finally, Install the GRUB boot loader to the master boot record should be Yes. Press ENTER when you see the Installation is complete screen. Congratulations, your new VM should now be booting and momentarily you will see something similar to this:<\/p>\n Log in with the username and password you selected. We don’t like working in the VirtualBox screen, so we run Now, this VM is functional, but we’re going to be doing some web service hosting on it, and to do that we’re going to need quite a few software packages. Let’s outline what we’ll be installing and why<\/i> first<\/p>\n Well, let’s get started. You can painstakingly type Let’s get Ruby going first.<\/p>\n![\"virtualbox_installer\"](\"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/virtualbox_installer.png\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nifconfig<\/code> to find the IP address assigned to the VM, and then ssh<\/code> into it with iTerm2.<\/p>\n\n
sudo<\/code> before each command, but we know a lot of these commands are going to require sudo, so we’ll just switch now.<\/p>\n\nLast login: Mon Feb 25 03:34:12 2013\nwebservice@webservicedev:~$ sudo su \n[sudo] password for webservice: \nroot@webservicedev:\/home\/webservice# \n<\/pre>\n
\nroot@webservicedev:\/home\/webservice# apt-get install ruby1.9.1\nReading package lists... Done\nBuilding dependency tree \nReading state information... Done\nThe following extra packages will be installed:\n libruby1.9.1 libyaml-0-2\nSuggested packages:\n ruby1.9.1-examples ri1.9.1 graphviz ruby1.9.1-dev\nThe following NEW packages will be installed:\n libruby1.9.1 libyaml-0-2 ruby1.9.1\n0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.\nNeed to get 4,196 kB of archives.\nAfter this operation, 12.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.\nDo you want to continue [Y\/n]? \n<\/pre>\n