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  1. 04-21-2010 #1
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    Red HAT On Virtual box

    Hi Guys,

    I want to use red hat as a guest os on my ubuntu laptop with virtual box....

    How do i go about it? is red hat available for free download?
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    You need to purchase a subscription to use RedHat.
    But CentOS is a free ( =as in beer ) alternative.
    It is built from the same sources, in an (almost) identical way.
    So it has binary compatibility with RedHat and you can use (almost) all RedHat documentation 1:1 with it.

    CentOS is available for download here:
    Index of /centos/5/isos
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    Actually.. redhat allows people to use rhel w/o purchasing(you can install the system leaving the installation code area blank).
    although rh does not provide any official downloading.
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    i use vm ware ...
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    Re:

    Yes i can use VM ware but i need the iso file or a cd of red hat....... I guess there is no way to get it for free....
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    What is stopping you from using CentOS instead?
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    You can get an evaluation copy. You can then continue to use it, but you cannot get support after the 30 eval period, nor can you download updates from the red hat repositories. However, you can get updates from CentOS, Scientific Linux, and other RHEL derivative sites that are either the same, or completely compatible. Non-RH applications will be identical on any such Yum repository. As said by others, just use CentOS unless you want to pay for the "privilege" of using Red Hat, or there is some overriding reason why you cannot use a non-branded version. CentOS is 100% compatible with RHEL. In effect, only the Red Hat icons and splash screens have been removed in deference to their copyrights on the images.
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    Re:

    Hey Guys!


    You got me all wrong...... I am already using CentOS for over 20 days now as per the previous suggestion. Its absolutely all i wanted.

    As for RED HAT its just a curiosity. Another Question is that a friend gifted me a SUSE DVD and I also got a Frugalware DVD free with a magazine i bought. So i was wondering how many Virtual Machines can i install on my V Box(tough i will off course be one at a time)...... any ideas?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arizz View Post
    Hey Guys!


    You got me all wrong...... I am already using CentOS for over 20 days now as per the previous suggestion. Its absolutely all i wanted.

    As for RED HAT its just a curiosity. Another Question is that a friend gifted me a SUSE DVD and I also got a Frugalware DVD free with a magazine i bought. So i was wondering how many Virtual Machines can i install on my V Box(tough i will off course be one at a time)...... any ideas?
    I think you can install as many as your HD space would allow. I tried to install 5 distros at one time in my virtualbox.

    But then again, I defer to the wisdom of the gurus
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    The number of VM's is unlimited, but you can only run as many simultaneously (effectively) as you have hardware resources for. In my case, I often run both XP and Solaris at the same time. I have a 2 CPU / 8 core system w/ 8GB of RAM. I give 1 core to each VM and 2GB to Windows and 1 GB to Solaris. That leaves me with plenty of resources for everything else I do.
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