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  • On a macbook, I could not find a "File" menu item to import the .ova image file.
    • By double clicking the .ova file image, virtual box will come up and digested it.
  • When I started the virtual machine, I got an error about not having a USB 2.0 device?
    • You did not install the Oracle Virtual Box Extension Pack.
  • When first powering on the machine, I cannot see anything.
    • There is sometimes a problem where the login screen is not using your computers video settings. After scrolling within the virtual
    image, I saw that the display in the image was to large for my laptop. However after logging in within the virtual machine, it adjusted its video to the proper size
    • machine so that you can see the login window, and then logging in, it should re-display within your computers video settings (after logging in).

Final notes

  • The default configuration of the virtual machine won't allow external login into the machine (one can'e do 'ssh' into the system). However, it's possible to give you machine a unique IP address to allow the logins. Instructions can be found in the VirtualBox documentation. And make sure you change the default passwords of both root and pcds accounts in your virtual image.
  • Please, read the documentation on VirtualBox

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