In this article, we will see how to download and Install CentOS Stream on VirtualBox step by step.
Boot the RHEL 8 installer. Boot your system using the bootable installation media containing the.
The focus now shifts to CentOS Stream as the main CentOS distribution. In fact, at the end of 2021, curtains close on CentOS 8 which is a rebuild of RHEL 8, to pave the way for CentOS Stream which will serve the upstream branch of RHEL. In short, there won’t be CentOS 9 based on RHEL 9 or any other CentOS point release going forward.
- The 32-bit edition of CentOS 7.1-1503 is currently in the Beta stages of development, so it has been made available for download only as a boot.iso image that basically allows you to boot the operating system and then start adding packages from the Internet to get a complete installation.
- Creating a VirtualBox Virtual Machine for CentOS 8: Open VirtualBox and click on New. Now, type in a name for the Virtual Machine (VM), select the Type to Linux and Version to Red Hat (64-bit). Then, click on Next. Now, you have to set how much Memory (RAM) you want to allocate to the VM. For headless servers, 1 GB or 1024 MB is enough.
- I have windows 7 with 32 bit system, and previously I used CentOS-6.5-i386-minimal to run centos on my virtual box, but now I would like to run CentOS 7 and it seems (if I am not mistaken) that there are No links to download an i386 image, as there are only x8664 which I am assuming is for the 64 bit systems.
Download CentOS Steam:
1. Go to website https://www.centos.org/download/ and click on x86_64.
2. Then, click on mirror link.
3. Then, click on CentOS-Stream-8-x86_64-20201210-dvd1.iso file to start download.
Wait until download is completed.
Install CentOS Steam on VirtualBox:
Once download is completed, then install CentOS Stream as described in below steps.
1. Open Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager.
2. Then, select New from Machine Menu as shown below.
3. Provide the name, Machine Folder path, Type, Version as Red hat 64 bit, RAM size and select Hard disk type as shown and click Create.
4. Then, provide the File Location and Files Size(Hard disk size of CentOS Stream). Default size is 8GB, change it to at least 50GB.
5. Then, Click on Create.
6. Right Click Virtual Machine from left menu and select Settings as show below.
7. Then, go to storage, empty then select Choose a disk file as shown below.
8. Then, select downloaded iso file: CentOS-Stream-8-x86_64-20201210-dvd1.iso and click on okay.
9. Now click on start button.
10. If you receive below message then select ISO and click start.
11. Then select CentOS Stream 8 and press Enter.
12. Then select the language and click on Continue.
13. Select the Installation Destionation, Software selection, set root password.
14. Wait until installation completes and following window appears.
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15. Dont click on Reboot System. Right Click on Virtual Machine as shown below, select settings–>Storage–>Select ISO file –> select remove Disk from virtual drive.
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16. Now click on Reboot System.