On 12/17/15 09:30, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Apparently I can't make google understand what I want. How do I tell virtual box to create a new VM from a file on this computer or NFS server instead of looking for sd0?
I would like to avoid going through the burning of another DVD ...
Bob
I finally found it:
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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.
For this case, the wizard's drop-down list contains a list of installation media that were previously used with VirtualBox.
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.
Sorry for the noise ...