Aster Express installation on VirtualBox/Mac OS

The following are the instructions to install Aster Express on Virtual Box at Mac Book. We need to take care of the Network configuration (Host-only along with hardcoded MAC Address) to setup the VMWare image on Virtual Box image.

1. On Virtual Box, VirtualBox —> Preferences —> Network —> Host-only Networks
2. At Adapters, enter 192.168.100.1 at IPv4 Address
3. At DHCP Server - DON’T enable (Close all tabs)
4. On Virtual Box again, Click NEW to import/create Virtual Machine
5. Name as "Aster Queen" and Type as “Linux" and Version “OPEN SUSE (64-bit)”
6. Give 2 GB RAM
7. At next tab, Use an existing virtual hard drive file – select the downloaded Queen VDMK file
8. Once you import/create the VM, open settings before you start the image
9. Go to Network —> Adapter 1 —> Attached to: “Host-only adapter"
10. At advanced on the same tab, replace MAC Address: with 005056368D90 for Queen Node
11. Repeat Step 4 to 10 for Aster Worker node but replace MAC Address with 00505620E180 for Worker Node

You should be able to ping 192.168.100.100 and 192.168.100.150 from your MacBook.

The problem we may face is due to Network Adapter. We are supposed to use Static IP addresses on eth0 but as we are converting VMWare to Virtual Box, it didn’t pick it up directly during the boot. Hence we have updated the Virtual Box setting to pick the Host-Only Networks. However we should also give the exact MAC Address ( 005056368D90 for Queen Node and 00505620E180 for Worker Node) to get the eth0 configured. These MAC addresses are picked up from Aster 6.00.01 version. If the Aster version is changed, you need to find the latest MAC Addresses on those images.

Please follow the rest of instructions from the given installation instructions document as part of Aster Express downloads.

Please find the links below which I found during the investigation. Hope it helps.

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9057 – This is the link which gave the solution.

“I've just had exactly this problem; it took me a good couple of hours to track down. The key is that Debian records the MAC address of the network adapter in its udev rules, so you can't change it externally without also changing it internally. This also means that if you copy the vdi to another host (like I did), you need to duplicate the MAC address setting in VirtualBox as well. “.

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/660

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-find-out-the-mac-address-of-my-linux-or-freebsd-system/