I am doing the DevOps Pre-Requisite course and experiencing issues in the Lab Setup section. I run on a Mac Studio with an M1 Max and installing Virtualbox in x86 presents challenges, installing it with ARM64 arch the software is in beta mode and I have issues installing CentOS 7-1908 (ARM64), it simply does not start and Virtualbox crashes. I followed the instructions provided in the video but can’t get out of this error loop. Any ideas on how to solve this?
Please chck this blog about install and use virtualbox on apple M1 and M2
Regard
Hi, thank you for the post. Installing the Virtualbox beta for ARM64 is what I did. As expected it will not install in x86 arch.
The Virtualbox beta ARM64 will install and I can go through the basic setup for CentOS as in the video. That is not where i encountered problems. When I perform a normal start for CentOS then Virtualbox will crash every time I try this. Also keep in mind that the image for CentOS is from OSboxes.
Then I tried to install CentOS on Virtualbox from an iso image downloaded from the official distribution. The iso will load but at the prompt to install CentOS it does nothing. I can press enter several times and nothing happens.
I even tried to install Virtualbox x86 with Rosetta 2 and it does not work.
When Virtualbox crashes it does so at the initialization phase. CentOS is x86 based (64bit) and i suspect that it is performing system calls that the hypervisor is not able to pass correctly to the host operating system (MacOS Ventura 13.4).
From a lesson point of view I am not sure using this Virtualbox approach for M1 macs is ready for prime time. As M1/M2 macs are prevalent in the market I suggest the content producer review this approach and adjust to something that works for beginner level.
For the time being I installed Fedora 36 which is upstream from Redhat and CentOS on Parallels (license based)