Documentation of Installing an IDEA VirtualBox for VE11 from OVA

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This post documents the installation of an IDEA VE11 virtual box on a mac as done on May 14th 2018

Big thanks to Andy for figuring out how this works

Prerequisites

Here I start with a already built images of IDEA on windows vista and mars on Ubuntu. the images from FMRIF can be taken from erbium.nimh.nih.gov:/fmrif/projects/SiemensIdea/virtual_machines/OVF/): IDEA_ve11c-mars.ova and IDEA_ve11c+vd13d+vd13a.ova
Virtual box software can be downloaded here.

Importing OVA images into virtual box

Screenshot 2018-05-14 12.41.07.png — Import with the “Import Appliance” button. Brows to the files and click “open”

This needs to be done for MARS and the Windows image.

Setting up network for MARS

Start mars in VitrualBox with a double click. It might take a while at the beginning with the following message.

It gives up after a few minutes and you can login as root.

Screenshot 2018-05-14 12.48.24.png

Open the network file with
vi /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

It might look like the following:

Screenshot 2018-05-14 12.53.05.png

Remove the upper two lines and change the “eth1” to “eth0” and save it. You can remind yourself about the vi shortcuts here.

Then open the file /etc/network/interfaces with

vi /etc/network/interfaces

It might look like the following:

Screenshot 2018-05-14 12.58.36.png — remember this number because we will need it later for setting up windows.

Reboot with

reboot

From now on the booting process should be much faster.

Screenshot 2018-05-14 13.29.33.png — Sidenote: In case the mouse is “trapped”, it can be released with the right command key.

Changing VirtualBox Networks settings of MARS

Screenshot 2018-05-14 13.23.04.png — Click sequence to change the VirtualBox network connection for MARS: 1.) select mars image, 2.) Settings, 3.) Network, 4.) Attached to, 5.) select Host-only Adapter and click ok.

Reboot mars again.

Setting up Windows in Virtual box

Allowing virtual box to resize the screen.

In Virtual box, select the Windows image and go to Storage settings.

click on the “add hard disk button”

leave it empty for now. and reboot

After reboot, you can go to “Devices” in the VirtualBox menue and click “Instert Guest Additions DC image” and reboot again

Now there should be a extra drive available install it and reboot again. Now it should be possible to resize the window.

Setting up Windows network preferences

In the VirtualBox menu do the following:

Select the Windows virtual box
go to Settings
Network
Host-only Networks
select vboxnet0
click on the screwdriver

Screenshot 2018-05-14 13.45.05.png

6.) in “Adapter”, change the IP address to the address from mars.

Screenshot 2018-05-14 13.48.48.png — note the “65”

7.) in DHCP change the “65” too.

Screenshot 2018-05-14 13.50.53.png

8.) Include a second Network adapter

Screenshot 2018-05-14 13.54.06.png

9.) Reboot

10.) check the network preferences in Windows:

go to network and sharing center

go to adapter settings

selece the new connection

go to properties

select IPv4

it should be automatically obtained

you can check, if Windows sees the mars, by opening a console

and pinking the IP address of mars.

At the end, IDEA needs to know the IP-address of MARS. If this is not set already. it can be done in the IDEA console with

Screenshot 2018-05-14 16.18.06.png

ExternalMArs true -ip 192.168.65.40

Setting up shared folder

In the VirtualBox setting, select the virtual box and click on settings. Go the Shared folder and brows to the path of the folder, you want to have access to.

Screenshot 2018-05-14 14.24.20.png

After a reboot, it should be available as a separate drive:

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