{"id":8666,"date":"2024-11-12T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?p=8666"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:36","slug":"import-virtual-machine-into-virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/2024\/import-virtual-machine-into-virtualbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Import Virtual Machine into VirtualBox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Import Virtual Machine into VirtualBox\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

This article covers the steps for importing a Virtual Machine into VirtualBox. If you have not yet installed VirtualBox, you can do so using the Install VirtualBox Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To import<\/strong> one of the SCS Virtual Machines as a guest<\/strong> into VirtualBox, follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Download the Virtual Machine for your course from our Course Virtual Machines<\/a> page.

    This will download the .ova<\/strong> file, which – if you are curious – is a compressed tarball of the Virtual Machine exported from VirtualBox<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. In VirtualBox, go to File<\/em> menu and click Import Appliance<\/em> (or press CTRL-I<\/strong>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. In the Appliance Import Window<\/em> that opens, click the folder icon to browse for the .ova<\/strong> file you just downloaded, then click Next<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Do NOT<\/strong> change any of the Appliance Settings-<\/strong>\u00a0these have already been optimized for most systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Click Import<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. NOTE: <\/strong>Importing an Appliance can take 2-10 minutes depending on the speed of your computer and the size of the Virtual Machine<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. When the import is complete, you will see the new Virtual Machine guest<\/strong> in VirtualBox’s guest list.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This article covers the steps for importing a Virtual Machine into VirtualBox. If you have not yet installed VirtualBox, you can do so using the Install VirtualBox Guide. To import one of the SCS Virtual Machines as a guest into VirtualBox, follow these steps:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[57,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technicalsupport","category-virtualmachines-support"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10591,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8666\/revisions\/10591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}