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[JayB]

Hi. I downloaded a Linux virtual appliance from the virtualbox site for use on my Mac host. It is a .rar file. Am I supposed to process it in some way for virtualbox to see it as a new guest?

Thanks,
Jay

[Perryg]

What were the instruction from the place you downloaded it from?

[JayB]

It's virtualbox's own site, for Scientific Linux.

I downloaded two of the images, both .rar files, and virtualbox does not recognize them. Apparently, .rar is some sort of archiving format that originated on Windows.

[loukingjr]

It's virtualbox's own site, for Scientific Linux.

I downloaded two of the images, both .rar files, and virtualbox does not recognize them. Apparently, .rar is some sort of archiving format that originated on Windows.

Actually it's not VirtualBox's site. I'm guessing it's the VirtualBoxImages site. They're not connected to VirtualBox or Oracle. Do you have the link?

[loukingjr]

If it's one of the images from virtualboximages.com at least one of them isn't built correctly. You'd be better off creating your own guest and downloading the .iso from https://www.scientificlinux.org/

[JayB]

Sorry, I cannot post URLs yet; I have just joined the forum and must wait a day.

Thank you for clarifying the distinction between virtualboximages and virtualbox.

I'm going to try with .iso files.

Best,
Jay

[loukingjr]

Sorry, I cannot post URLs yet; I have just joined the forum and must wait a day.

Thank you for clarifying the distinction between virtualboximages and virtualbox.

I'm going to try with .iso files.

Best,
Jay

Most of the time images from virtualboximages are fine but whoever did the SL7 image did it incorrectly. There are also security issues and questions about whether they actually installed an OS correctly.

You can get around the URL limit by adding a space on both sides of .com. i.e. somename . com