But you can also configure to have multiple keyboard layouts in coming steps. This probably will be the keyboard layout. Also choose the dialect if available once you choose the language. Choose English or any language of your choice. Step 12: OS Language Selection CentOS 8.1 : OS Language SelectionĪfter a while you will land on the Welcome to CentOS Linux 8 installation GUI screen to select language of the CentOS 8.1. To move in and out of the virtual machine, you can hit right Ctrl key.
Tip: How Move Mouse In & Out of VM CentOS 8.1 : How Move Mouse In & Out of VM Click on the logo that looks like CD or Optical Drive and select the option to Choose Virtual Optical Disk File. Under the settings (ctrl + s) navigate to Storage -> Controller IDE -> Optical Drive. You will see the name of the VM you gave during step 3 in the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager in the left panel.
Now we have configured the infrastructure like RAM and Virtual HDD for our CentOS 8.1, now we will install CentOS 8.1 on this infrastructure.
CentOS 8.1 : Configure Virtual Hard Disk location & Storage Capacity Step 9: Mount CentOS 8.1 ISO from Settings CentOS 8.1 : Mount CentOS 8.1 ISO from Settings of VM Click Next to proceed mouting the CentOS 8.1 ISO. I go with 15GB for the size of virtual hard disk. Also set the Size of the virtual hard disk as per your need. Step 8: Configure Virtual Hard Disk location & Storage CapacityĬhoose the location where the Virtual Hard Disk used by the CentOS 8.1 VM need to be saved. CentOS 8.1 : Storage on Physical Hard Disk
The advantage of Dynamically allocated storage is that the hard disk file will only consume the physical hard disk space as it gets filled up (max size is limited to the size of the virtual hard disk which will be configured in the next step), although it will not shrink automatically when the space is freed.
Alternatively you can visit this url to download CentOS from Mirror.ĬentOS 8.1 : Choose Hard Disk File Type Step 7: Storage on Physical Hard DiskĬhoose the option Dynamically allocated Storage on physical hard disk. You can choose the nearest possible mirror from the CentOS downloads mirror list page here.