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This page will help you get started testing the weekly VirtualBox images. This is useful if you want to test FreedomBox images without owning a DreamPlug.

Downloading Images

Pre-built Images are availble at the following pages:

The easiest thing might be to check out the latest VirtualBox build by downloading it over BitTorrent:

http://download.internetmachines.co.uk/tracker/freedombox-images https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-unstable.torrent)--

Once you download it:

  1. Decompress the VDI image.
  2. Create a new VirtualBox VM.

  3. If you want to duplicate the DreamPlug experience, make sure to give it 512 MB RAM.

  4. When it asks you about a "Virtual Hard Disk" select the .vdi file you extracted from the archive.
  5. Make sure to go into your VM's settings and check the "Enable PAE/NX" box in the [System] -> [Processor] screen.

Network Configuration

Configure the network interfaces before booting the Vm. Basically wou will add two network adapters to the freedombox: One to provide internet to the freedombox, and one to access the freedombox virtual machine from your host system.

1. File -> Preferences -> [Network] -> [Host-only Networks]

2. VM's settings -> [Network] -> [Adapter 1]

3. VM's settings -> [Network] -> [Adapter 2]

That should be enough to let you boot the VM.

Logging In

You can log in as the following user:

fbx
frdm

After logging in, you can become root with the command "sudo su".

Remaining TODOs

See the ?Beta Release TODOs.

See also

* http://betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-images

Mounting Images Locally

If you want to mount images locally, use the following to copy built images off the VirtualBox:

$ mkdir /tmp/vbox-img1 /tmp/vbox-root1
$ vdfuse -f freedombox-unstable_2013.0519_virtualbox-i386-hdd.vdi /tmp/vbox-img1/
$ sudo mount -o loop /tmp/vbox-img1/Partition1 /tmp/vbox-root1
$ cp /tmp/vbox-root1/home/fbx/freedom-maker/build/freedom*vdi ~/
$ sudo umount /tmp/vbox-root1
# $ sudo umount /tmp/vbox-img1 # corruption here.


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