¶ Introduction
You can run Endless OS within your existing OS by running it as a virtual machine. The instructions below show how to use VirtualBox to achieve this.
¶ Using Virtual Machine image
¶ Download the image file
- Go to the official web site: https://endlessos.com/download/
- Click and the drop down menu 'Choose your image':
- Choose the version in between Basic(multilanguage) or English
- Obtain and open the torrent file
- Click and open the torrent file to download the image and signature files.
Once the download completed, the image files should be under a folder structure like this:
.
└── eos-amd64-amd64
└── base
├── eos-eos3.8-amd64-amd64.201005-194955.base.ovf.zip
Uncompress the zip file for the next step. And you should see 3 files,
eos-eos3.8-amd64-amd64.201005-194955.base.ovf
├── eos-eos3.8-amd64-amd64.201005-194955.base.mf
├── eos-eos3.8-amd64-amd64.201005-194955.base.ovf
└── eos-eos3.8-amd64-amd64.201005-194955.base.vmdk
¶ Import the image file into VirtualBox
To begin the importing, you can simply double click on the .ovf file from the extracted folder. Or from the VirtualBox menu: File > Import Appliance
Then you should see a dialog:
Click on 'Import'
Once it finishes the importing, you should see the imported image from the left pane
And now you can double-click on it to open the Virtual Machine with Endless OS running within.
¶ Install from ISO / Live image
Alternatively, you can create an empty Virtual Machine.
Download any Endless OS ISOs from the download page.
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Step 1. Create an empty VM in Virtualbox
- Recommended to have 2048 MB of RAM
- Recommended to have 32GB of disk space
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Step 2. Boot into Live image:
- Settings > Storage > (click on empty drive under controller) > 'Choose Virtual Optical Disk File' and tick the 'Live CD/DVD' box
- When you start the VM it should boot into the Live image
- Settings > Storage > (click on empty drive under controller) > 'Choose Virtual Optical Disk File' and tick the 'Live CD/DVD' box
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Step 3. Then follow the installer screen to install Endless OS into your virtual disk.