While I created the virtual machine, I allocated 512 Mb of RAM. and selected VDI as the hard drive file type. Then I created a New fixed-size file of 32Gb for the hard disk image. I thought it created the image on my physical hard disk.
When I came to the VM Manager window, I clicked Start with Red Hat selected. The Select Startup Disk dialog box popped up and I chose VBoxGuestAdditions.iso (56.73Mb). Then I got this error in the command window:
The other option was the E:\ drive, which is the DVD drive. The only reason it was an option, I think, is because I had a cd in the drive.FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted
I thought the .iso file was the one option to choose because of this statement in the manual:
Before selecting the .iso file, I tried browsing for the medium:If you have downloaded installation media from the Internet in the form of an ISO image file (most probably in the case of a Linux distribution), you would normally burn this file to an empty CD or DVD and proceed as just described. With VirtualBox however, you can skip this step and mount the ISO file directly. VirtualBox will then present this file as a CD or DVD-ROM drive to the virtual machine, much like it does with virtual hard disk images.
It seems that the file to open is: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox, which is the same as the file that appears in the drop-down menu list. Choosing the file from that list and choosing it from my C:\ of course lead to this same "FATAL" error.If your medium is not in the list (especially if you are using VirtualBox for the first time), select the small folder icon next to the drop-down list to bring up a standard file dialog, with which you can pick the image file on your host disks.
Now, when I open the Red Hat hard disk and hit F12 I see:
Choosing (1) and choosing (b) both lead to the "FATAL" error.VirtualBox temporary boot device selection
Detected Hard disks:
AHCI controller:
1) Hard disk
Other boot devices: f)Floppy c)CD-ROM l) LAN b)Continue booting
More VB Manager specs:
The Boot Order is Floppy, CD/DVD-ROM, Hard Disk
The Acceleration is VT-x/AMD-V, Nested Paging, PAE/NIX
I think the problem is that I don't have Red Hat installed. I already have Ubuntu installed in the VirtualBox Manager on another virtual disk. But since that disk can't talk to the new Red Hat disk, I don't think I could just download RH in Ubuntu and install it from there. So how should I proceed?
Thanks!