Centos 32 Bit Download For Virtualbox

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This tutorial shows how to install VirtualBox 4.1. (Latest VirtualBox 4.1.8) on CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 via yum repository. Step 1: Open terminal ( Applications —— System Tools —— Terminal). Change to root user. Step 2: Download the CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 repo file for VirtualBox. Step 3: Move it to /etc/yum.repos.d directory. The CentOS Linux distribution is a stable, predictable, manageable and reproduceable platform derived from the sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS (abbreviated from Community Enterprise Operating System) is a Linux distribution that attempts to provide a free, enterprise-class, community-supported computing platform which aims to be 100% binary compatible with its upstream.

To use an SSH client to connect to a VirtualBox VM, follow the Using SSH to connect instructions in the Networking section of this document. After you have finished installing CentOS, you should shut down your CentOS machine safely and return to VirtualBox Settings, System, Motherboard, and change the Base Memory back down to to 256MB. To test different OS such as Windows 10 or other Linux distros as a guest on host CentOS 8 Linux or Stream operating systems, we can use the best open-source Oracle VirtualBox virtualization platform. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.

Images for several CentOS flavours are available.

  1. CentOS 5.1
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 620 MBytes / 2.53 GBytes
    Link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/virtualboximage/centos-5.1-x86.7z
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/roottoor, centos/reverse
    Notes: GNOME desktop environment, Guest Additions not installed.
  2. CentOS 5.2
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 529 MBytes / 2.53 GBytes
    Link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/virtualboximage/centos-5.2-x86.7z
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/toortoor
    Notes: NO GUI; Guest Additions not installed; additional server package installed
  3. CentOS 5.3
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 668.1 MBytes / 3.10 GBytes
    Link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/virtualboximage/centos-5.3-x86.7z
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/roottoor, centos/reverse
    Notes: GNOME desktop environement; Guest Additions not installed.
  4. CentOS 5.6 x86_64
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 269.9 MBytes / 1,7 GBytes
    Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/5.6/Centos-x86_64.7z/download
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
    Notes: Guest Additions not installed; In /etc/ssh/sshd_config GSSAPIAuthentication no
  5. CentOS 5.6 Gnome Desktop x86_64
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 993 MBytes / 4.3 GBytes
    Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/5.6/Centos-desktop-x86_64.7z/download
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse,centos/reverse.
    Notes: GNOME desktop environement; Guest Additions not installed.
  6. CentOS 6.0 Gnome Desktop x86
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 596.9 MBytes / 2.4 GBytes
    Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/6.0/CentOS-6-Gnome-i386.7z/download
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse.
    Notes: GNOME desktop environement; Guest Additions not installed.
  7. CentOS 6.0 base x86
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 274 MBytes / 1.4 GBytes
    Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/6.0/CentOS-6-i386.7z/download
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
    Notes: text mode installed, no graphics
  8. CentOS 6.0 base x86_64
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 299 MBytes / 1.7 GBytes
    Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/6.0/CentOS-6-x86_64.7z/download
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
    Notes: text mode installed, no graphics
  9. CentOS 5.7 base x86
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 173 MBytes / 1.3 GBytes
    Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/5.7/CentOS-5.7-i386.7z/download
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
    Notes: text mode installed, no graphics
  10. CentOS 5.7 Gnome x86
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 470 MBytes / 2.5 GBytes
    Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/5.7/CentOS-5.7-Gnome-i386.7z/download
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse centos/reverse.
    Notes: Guest Additions installed, gcc, kernel-headers and devel
  11. CentOS 6.2 Gnome Desktop x86
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 474 MBytes / 2.1 GBytes
    Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/6.2/CentOS-6.2-i386.7z
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse.
    Notes: GNOME desktop environement, install from LiveCD; Guest Additions NOT installed.
  12. CentOS 5.8 Gnome Desktop x86
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 897 MBytes / 3.6 GBytes
    Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/5.8/CentOS-5.8-Gnome-i386.7z
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse.
    Notes: GNOME desktop environement, install from multi CD; Guest Additions NOT installed.
  13. CentOS 6.3 Gnome Desktop x86
    Size (compressed/uncompressed): 492 MBytes / 2.2 GBytes
    Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/6.3/CentOS-6.3-x86.7z
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse.
    Notes: GNOME desktop environement, install from LiveCD; Guest Additions NOT installed.
  14. CentOS 5.9 base x86
    Size: 740 MBytes
    MD5SUM of ova image: 3a3217d7e9cf42f20ba5d39f7345f123
    Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-5.9-i386.ova.torrent
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
    Notes: Installed from netinstall; Guest Additions NOT installed.
  15. CentOS 5.9 Gnome x86
    Size: 1.2 GBytes
    MD5SUM of ova image: 68cffe3c65551ddc6de7c9d2d97dd2e0
    Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-5.9-i386-Gnome.ova.torrent
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse
    Notes: Installed from netinstall; Guest Additions NOT installed.
  16. CentOS 6.4 minimal x86
    Size: 398 MBytes
    MD5SUM of ova image: 2dcbe358414e1f589a1578e8ad75c87b
    Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-6.4-i386-minimal.ova.torrent
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
    Notes: Installed from netinstall; Guest Additions NOT installed.
  17. CentOS 6.4 Gnome x86
    Size: 1.1 GByte
    MD5SUM of ova image: abb9ece8e59cf231d88590d0909275c6
    Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-6.4-i386-Gnome.ova.torrent
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse.
    Notes: Installed from netinstall; Guest Additions NOT installed.
    Packages added with “yum groupinstall” to the minimal version:
    # yum -y groupinstall 'Desktop' 'Desktop Platform' 'X Window System' 'Graphical Administration Tools' 'General Purpose Desktop'
    You can also install the following optional GUI packages.
    # yum -y groupinstall 'Office Suite and Productivity'
    # yum -y groupinstall 'Graphics Creation Tools'
  18. CentOS 5.10 base x86
    Size: 361 MBytes / 1.2 GB uncompressed
    MD5SUM of ova image: 6328b640adf8ef741859e672687f8c17
    Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-5.10.ova.torrent
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
    Notes: Installed from netinstall. Guest Additions NOT installed. Some services have been disabled at boot
  19. CentOS 6.5 minimal x86
    Size: 349 MBytes
    MD5SUM of ova image: 321edee90302ed4525db9e647ac29adc
    Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-6.5-i386-minimal.ova.torrent
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
    Notes: Installed from CentOS-6.5-i386-minimal.iso; Guest Additions NOT installed, Fix DHCP eth0 up
  20. CentOS 7.0 Base
    Size: 585 MBytes
    MD5SUM of ova image: f41153b8941c7f277a444a8e0be88a18
    Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS7-base.ova.torrent
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse centos/reverse (sudo enabled).
    Notes: Installed from CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-NetInstall.iso; Guest Additions NOT installed
  21. CentOS 7.0 Gnome
    Size: 2.0 GBytes
    MD5SUM of ova image: a7cc821c1d417ac66df5c1edd00ee0ab
    Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS7-Gnome.ova.torrent
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse centos/reverse (sudo enabled).
    Notes: Base Installed from CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-NetInstall.iso
    Gnome installed by
    # yum groupinstall “GNOME Desktop” “Graphical Administration Tools”
    set default runlevel 5
    Guest Additions NOT installed.
  22. CentOS 6.6 minimal x86
    Size: 315 MBytes
    MD5SUM of ova image: f7387aa0bab16f5011f82bdff4596267
    Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-6.6-i386-minimal.ova.torrent
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
    Notes: Installed from CentOS-6.6-i386-minimal.iso; Guest Additions NOT installed, fix eth0 up at boot
  23. CentOS 6.6 minimal x86_64
    Size: 323 MBytes
    MD5SUM of ova image: 9cacb27b67fcd2de01a4860e0e4b855c
    Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-6.6-x86_64-minimal.ova.torrent
    Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
    Notes: Installed from CentOS-6.6-x86_64-minimal.iso; Guest Additions NOT installed, fix eth0 up at boot

If you don’t want to install around 4GB or 9.5GB ISO file of CentOS 7 then, use the 900 MB ISO image to install the minimal version with only the base package on your server.

On one hand, where CentOS 8 Linux will stop getting further updates in December of this year, CentOS 7 Linux still has a long time to reach the end of its life that is stipulated in 2024. Thus, if you want to start with this server Linux distro then still you have enough time, and here will let you know how to install CentOS 7 minimal version on Server, PC, or VirtualBox.

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  • Step by Step CentOS 7 Minimal server installation on PC or VertiuaBox

Step by Step CentOS 7 Minimal server installation on PC or VertiuaBox

1. Download from the index of CentOS 7 Minimal ISO 64-bit

The option to download the minimal ISO of this server is available on CentOS 7 official index mirror page along with the full-fledged ISO and Net-installer version. Here is the official mirror links page, visit and select any of the available ones. After opening any link select the minimal version to download.

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First, we prepare or set CentOS 7 minimal ISO as an installation medium. Go with as per your system…

2. CentOS 7 PC or Server installation

If you are planning to install CentOS 7 on a PC, laptop, or server machine then you need a bootable USB that contains its installation files. Thus, follow the below steps for Windows or Linux. For more details, you can see: How to install balenaEtcher on Linux

Virtualbox centos 8 image

Here we are using Etcher that is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The installation of this software is any regular software just double click on its setup, even for Linux distros.

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  • Plug USB drive to the system
  • Open Etcher bootable USB maker
  • Select the ISO image and then the USB stick that you want to use
  • Finally, click on the Flash button.

3. Create VirtualBox VM

Those who want to install CentOS 7 minimal version on VirtualBox, first need to create its VM and use its ISO files as the booting medium. Here are the steps to follow.

  • Open VirtualBox
  • Click on the New icon and then give some name to your machine. Select Type Linux and version– Redhat 64 bit.
  • Assign the amount of RAM you want to use, 2GB will be good.
  • Create a Virtual Hard disk. Leave all the default options as it is, just simply clicks on the Next button two times.
  • At the “File location and size” set the disk to 20 GB or more as per your purpose of installing this Linux server.

4. Set ISO as a bootable medium

For PC or laptop: Insert the bootable USB you have created and restart your system to boot with it.

For VirtualBox: Once you have created the virtual machine, select it from the left side panel and then click on the Settings icon given in the VirtualBox menu.

  • Select Storage and then the CD icon.
  • After that again click on the CD/DVD icon given under Attributes and select “Choose/Create a Virtual Optical Disk“.
  • Click Add, select the downloaded CentOS 7 ISO.
  • Now, again select it from the file area and click on the Choose button.
  • After this simply click on the Start button.

5. Select Install CentOS 7 boot option

As you boot the machine, there will be an option to run the installer for CentOS 7, select that to move forward.

6. Select Language

Set the language for the installation.

7. Installation Destinatuion

Click on the Destination option and select the hard disk where you want to install the operating system.

8. Network configuration & hostname

This is also important to set up otherwise later you have to enable it manually which will be a headache for new users. Thus, select it and then enable the toggle button given for Ethernet.

9. Begin installation

Finally, click on the blue color installation button to start the setup process.

10. Root & User

While the installation is going on select the Root options and set the password for it. In the same way, create a standard system user with sudo access as well.

Once done, Eject the ISO image for that go to Devices-> Optical Drive, and select the CentOS 7 image. This will give you a pop-up to force mount it. After that Reboot the system.

Insall GUI on CentOS 7 mininal server

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In case you would like to have a Graphical user interface on CentOS 7 after its installation because in minimal version there will be a command-line interface then follow the below steps:

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Once done restart the system and login as Cinnamon…