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Puppy Linux in Virtual Machine

Puppy Linux 4.3.1rc2 in VirtualBox runs well, see the Forum article by playdayz.

. useful for those running Windows, so they might have a Puppy on their desktop.

. needs a physical machine with 1GB ram for VirtualBox and Puppy to run in Windows safely (or at least 768MB. )

1) download and install VirtualBox;
2) download and unpack this zip archive; the archive is 254MB and the unzipped folder is 274MB (the [size] increase over Puppy 4.3.1 is to install the VirtualBox services in order that all features will work; check download with md5sum = ee06f7ac6959b31e012aa8b352e9b849);
3) open VirtualBox and «File -> Import Appliance» and select the ovf file inside the folder Puppy431rc2. When it has been imported, select that virtual machine in VirtualBox and click Start. (Testing in XP, I had to manually enable some of the options such as USB and Network—just look at the list of options when you select Puppy 4.3.1 and click each option and then click the Enable box.)

See also vmPuppy 2.14X (Puppy with kernel 2.6.18 updated by ttuuxxx and running in VMWare).

Added by raffy October 15, 2009 (3:30PM)

stray77 on January 3, 2010 (5:09PM)

Elder Geek,
A battery backup would probably solve your problem about 99% of the time. Just a thought.

Glen on January 2, 2010 (5:14PM)

I am having some trouble with optimal configuration. First, off I cannot get puppy to fill the entire height and width of my screen in fullscreen mode. When I try xorgwizard it just sits there on an empty black screen after saying it may take a while to probe hardware. If I wait long X just restarts itself.

Also when I boot up I get the following message, even though xp is configured for 32 bit color:

edyar on December 26, 2009 (10:00PM)

is there a puppy remaster iso with all the virtualbox things included?
i have a dialup modem.(edimax) it is useless in puppy. so can someone upload his compiled version?

Elder Geek on December 18, 2009 (8:03PM)

I have a VMWare image of Puppy 4.1 that I have set up to act as an OpenVPN server. The only problem it has when it is not shut down properly. Upon the next boot it will not boot to a graphic login screen and has to be shutdown and restarted properly before it will work.

I thought it had to do with me installing to an ext2 partition but it does the same thing even when I changed from ext2 to ext3.

It is just a minor inconvenience. After a power outage someone has to log into the vmware image and restart it properly a second time to get it working. And you can’t do that remotely because OpenVPN is not running.

mark on November 28, 2009 (6:06PM)

OK. Regarding post above. never mind. I was able to get back on after resetting and the system said I didn’t close down X properly last time. I had been closing down using the Machine menu option and «close.» Instead, I am using the lower left Menu option and «shutdown, then power off.» That seems to have solved the problem. I guess I was shutting down VirtualBox and not Puppy Linux first.

mark on November 28, 2009 (2:25PM)

Can you offer some help?

I loaded Virtual Machine on Win XP and successfully loaded Puppy Linux. I followed instructions from here: http://www.virtualboximages.com/GettingStarted

Everything worked fine. until I tried to reboot the session. After I shut down, it won’t boot up again. Get’s hung up during boot process and doesn’t complete the script. I thought it was corrupted so I deleted and downloaded a completely new setup again. And it worked fine again on initial load but it will not reboot after it’s been shutdown.

I’d like to continue experimentation but I don’t know where to start troubleshooting.

As a side note, I loaded an ISO image of another Linux distribution and it worked fine. So because of that I think the problem is in Puppy vs. Virtual Box. Any ideas or thoughts?

Dan on November 13, 2009 (1:27PM)

On the bottom of the VirtualBox window is an icon that looks like a folder, and is for connecting shared host folders with the VB guest.

With the Puppy guest running, add a folder and it’s icon will appear on the desktop or in the Puppy Mount tool. Click on it. It’s mounted.

A 2GB SDA is a portable flash drive.

Wognath on November 11, 2009 (1:16PM)

Can you tell me how to mount the NTFS drive from the virtual Puppy? And can you explain what and where the 2GB sda1 is?
Thanks! I’m going to enjoy this.

raffy on October 17, 2009 (12:15AM)

You can use Puppy Linux search for VirtualBox, an example find is here. That uses Puppy version 2.17, whose kernel is new enough to handle dual-core PCs. There is also Erik Veenstra’s QEMU-Puppy. That also uses Puppy version 2.17.

gcmartin on October 16, 2009 (9:35PM)

Was VirtualBox installed on a Puppy distro.

Sounds like Puppy could be a great VM host (with VirtualBox added), because its so small and fast.

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Puppy linux ��������� virtualbox

The fact is that you do not need to install Puppy Linux at all! You can simply download and burn it to an optical disc (CD, DVD, CD±RW, DVD±RW) or dd it to an USB drive and boot it live.

Burning an Optical disc or preparing a USB Drive

Optical

In any Linux, once you have downloaded the ISO image and verified its authenticity by checking its md5sum you can burn it to a DVD or a CD using any Linux optical burning tool. Just make sure you burn it as an image and not data otherwise it will not be bootable.

In Windows we recommend Imageburn (direct link to download) to burn the image to a CD or DVD.

All Linux versions come with a tool name dd. Our ISO images since 2013 come as iso hybrid images so they can be transferred directly to the USB drive using dd. Don’t attempt this with older puppy versions unless you know what you are doing. Here is a simple tutorial on using dd to make a bootable USB drive. Be very careful with your target drive name!

There is a Windows version of dd available on this site.

There is also a graphical tool for Windows called Win32 Disk Imager. A download is available from this page.

Booting

Depending on whether you have optical or USB media you may have to go into your computer’s BIOS Setup program to adjust the boot order of devices. You want to give your optical or USB ports priority over the harddrive.

Once you have your boot media and computer set up just insert the boot media and switch on your computer. You will see a couple of text screens go past and hopefully you will boot to a shiny new desktop with a quick setup screen followed by a welcome screen.

When you are finished you can decide to save the session or not! Not saving the session does not leave a trace of the operating system as Puppy runs entirely in RAM and as soon as the computer is powered off the RAM is flushed. This is ideal from a security perspective for internet banking or other sensitive financial transactions performed over the internet.

Saving the session can be achieved in a number of ways:

You can save the session to a harddrive or an USB drive in a vfat, ntfs or linux [1] partition. This will save all your settings to what is known as a pupsave [2] file or folder. When you boot off the same media next time the pupsave will be found and all your files and settings will be as you left them.

If you booted off of optical media you can save the session and all settings back to that same optical disc.

So you want to install Puppy

Naturally you can actually install Puppy if you wish. Once you boot Puppy and are happy with what you see it is time to open the Puppy Installer from Setup in the main menu. There are 3 main types of install; frugal, USB and traditional full install.

1. Frugal install (Recommended)

This type of install copies the main puppy files from the boot media (either optical or USB) to your harddrive. Firstly, you are presented with some information about your system and what partitions you have available. If you don’t have a suitable partition then you can use the included graphical partition manager GParted to shrink and move partitions as necessary to created a partition for your installation. Once this is done you are prompted for the location of your boot media files (either an iso image, optical media or just the files themselves) and once confirmed these are copied to a folder in your chosen partition. A bootloader is then installed and once finished you can reboot into your new system.

This will be a pristine system that requires you to save your session at shut down if you want to keep your settings. Once saving the session is complete, a pupsave file or folder is created. On you next boot your files and settings will be exactly as you left them at last shutdown.

2. USB Install (Recommended)

This type of install copies the main puppy files from the boot media (either optical or USB) to your chosen USB drive. Firstly, you should insert the USB drive that you want to use for installation. Again using the graphical partition manager GParted you need to make sure that there is a suitable partition on the USB drive. This can be formatted to fat32 Windows™ style filesystem (good for portability if you want to use the drive as storage to be used between Linux and Windows™) or one of the supported Linux filesystems. (Note: not all Puppies support the f2fs filesystem. The installer is intelligent enough to know this.) Again, you are prompted for the location of your boot media files (either an iso image, optical media or just the files themselves) and once confirmed these are copied to a folder in your chosen USB drive. A bootloader is then installed and once finished you can reboot into your new system. This can be booted on any computer you like! This is also a type of frugal installation.

Again, this will be a pristine system that requires you to save your session at shut down if you want to keep your settings. Once saving the session is complete, a pupsave file or folder is created. On you next boot your files and settings will be exactly as you left them at last shutdown.

3. Full Install

This is a traditonal Linux install to its own dedicated partition. If you don’t have a suitable partition then you can use the included graphical partition manager GParted to shrink and move partitions as necessary to created a partition for your installation. You must use a Linux filesystem. Once this is done you are prompted for the location of your boot media files (either an iso image, optical media or just the files themselves) and once confirmed these are expanded in your chosen partition. A bootloader is then installed and once finished you can reboot into your new system.

Once booted this will act like any other Linux installation.

Using Puppy

Puppy is famous for its ease of use. The desktop layout is traditional with a task bar at the bottom (or top) and icons on the desktop. Anyone coming from Windows™, Mac OSX™ or another Linux such as Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch will have little issue getting used to it. The interface is a typical WIMP style (Windows, Icons, Menus and a Pointing device).

While puppy comes with almost everything you need to write, calculate, enjoy videos and music, create artwork, work with your digital camera, and more there invariably comes a time when you need an an extra piece of software. Extra software comes in the form of pet packages which can be installed through the Puppy Package Manager or by downloading from a trusted source and simply clicking on the package. Puppy also has the capability of installing deb, rpm and tgz/txz packages from Debian family, Red Hat family and Slackware family of Linux operating systems.

The way Puppy is designed, if you use a frugal type install, software can be installed as an sfs (Squash File System) package. This is the preferred method to install very large packages such as LibreOffice. In fact the Puppy development environment, including the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and development libraries and headers, is shipped as an sfs; a separate download to the main ISO image. There is a tool call SFS Load which makes installing these packages a one step process. The sfs packages do not work on a full install.

Once you have been using Puppy for a little while you may want to try a remaster (see FAQ). This saves the state of your current installed system (minus some the personal stuff) to a burnable ISO image. This enables you to have your system setup and ready to go if you have several computers or you can share your remaster as a puplet with the community.

However you decide to install (or not) Puppy Linux, we hope you enjoy using it for years to come!

Notes

While we recommend frugal or USB installations the choice is entirely yours.

[1] Some common Linux filesystems that Puppy supports are ext2, ext3, ext4, f2fs. Windows™ filesystems supported are fat16, fat32 and ntfs.

[2] A pupsave file is a file that contains a linux filesystem. It can be stored on any supported partition. It is a fixed size and can be as small as 32MB and as large as 4GB (on fat32) and even larger on other filesystems. The pupsave file can be enlarged later on, but the challenge is to keep your system trim and clean by regularly deleting browser cache, cleaning up any stray files and storing other stuff outside the save file.

A pupsave folder can only be created on a linux filesystem. This allows you to store as much as your partition can hold.

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How to install Puppy Linux In Virtual Box

Hello guys! Today I’m going to tell and show you (using images) how to install Puppy Linux in Virtual Box. If you are a regular visitor then you definitely going to ask why Puppy Linux? then here is your answer and if you’ re not then you are here for this only =)).

This is not the only thing- «to show you how to install Puppy Linux on Virtual Box» but I’m also experimenting with my blog by doing it LIVE.

As I do any step I’ll update this post. Those who saw this post incomplete don’t worry by the end of the day you’ll find it completed (actually it doesn’t going to take that much time :P).

HOW TO INSTALL PUPPY LINUX IN VIRTUAL BOX

1. All you need Virtual Box ( Download it from here ) and ISO Image of Puppy Linux ( Download it from here ).
2. Install Virtual Box in your machine.
3. Click on New Button ->Write Name, select Operating System and Linux Version.
4. Click Next -> On Memory select how much RAM you want you want to allocate to the VM (Virtual Machine).
5. Click Next-> keep the option default -> again Click Next-> New window open «create a new virtual hard disk (VHD)» then again click next-> select which type of storage you want. Dynamic or fixed storage. Here I chooses fixed one.
6. Again Click next. Now you have to set the location and the size of your VHD.
7. Click next and click on finish button. In the end you’ll see summary then again click finish.
8. If you think that’s the end.. its not. Till now we have only create VHD, set RAM for our Puppy Linux but haven’t install it. Now that’s what we need to do.
9. Click on Setting Tab on the top. now click on storage.
10. Click on Empty-> click on folder type icon on the right to open Virtual Media Manager.
11. Click on Add button. Browse and attach Puppy Linux ISO image. Click on Select Button
12. Click On OK button.
13. You are done! Click on Start button.
14. Screen shots coming your way … stay tuned.

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All formatting done!

Keep Linux ready on your machine may be coming software’s, tips and tricks based on Linux and don’t forget to share your ideas, problem with us 🙂

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