VirtualBoxįor this to happen the VM needs 2 network adapters: The aim is being able to access the guest on a static IP from the host to upload/download files and for the guest to be able to access the internet for API access to external services, apt update etc. Guest OS is Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) Server Beta.And your DHCP server will not appreciate such things.Īside from that, this is pretty much plain sailing next > next > next > finish sort of stuff.īut the video is here for completeness anyway. Otherwise we may end up with multiple Virtual Machines that all think they are using the same network card. It's important to create a unique MAC address - as demonstrated in the video - whenever we are going to clone from this Master Image. That is to say, whenever we are going to create a new Ubuntu Server to run an ad-hoc Ansible command or Playbook against, we will use this Master Image as our starting point. The biggest point to take away from this video is that we will be using this as our Master Image throughout the rest of this course.

I have shortened some of the sequences to show only the relevant command inputs / choices, rather than making you suffer through watching hundreds of files download one by one. There's not a huge amount to be said throughout this video so much of it is in silent.

You could use VMWare which is equally as good (except VirtualBox has a nicer price tag - i.e. You could use a physical server, if you happen to have a spare one lying around. You do not need to use VirtualBox for this.

Feel free to skip this video if you are already comfortable installing Ubuntu Server from an ISO image in Oracle VirtualBox.

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