How to set up RHEL 8.3 using Oracle VirtualBox on Mac

Paul Zhao
Paul Zhao Projects
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2 min readJan 5, 2021

Set up RHEL 8.3 by Oracle Virtual Box on Mac

First, we will download Oracle Virtual Box on Mac, please click Mac hosts

Second, we will also download RHEL iso

Let us make it work now!

Click Oracle VirtualBox and open the application and follow instructions here, you will install RHEL 8.3 as shown below

Oracle VM VirtualBox

Notes: In case you are unable to install RHEL 8.3 successfully, please find solutions here. Also, after you create your developer’s account with Red Hat, you have to wait for sometime before register it. Otherwise, you may receive errors as well.

Now it’s time for us to connect to RHEL 8.3 from Mac using VirtualBox.

Login RHEL 8.3

Click activities and open terminal

Open terminal

Notes: In order to be able to connect to RHEL 8.3 from Mac later, we must enable what it is shown below.

Bridged Adapter selected

Now we will get the ip that we will be using to connect to RHEL 8.3 from Mac (highlighted ip address for enp0s3 is the right one to use)

Ip address

Then you may easily login from your Mac terminal using ssh username@ip.address

$ ssh paulzhao@192.168.0.14
paulzhao@192.168.0.14's password:
Activate the web console with: systemctl enable --now cockpit.socket

This system is not registered to Red Hat Insights. See https://cloud.redhat.com/
To register this system, run: insights-client --register

Last login: Mon Dec 28 17:36:20 2020 from 192.168.0.12
[paulzhao@localhost ~]$

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Paul Zhao
Paul Zhao Projects

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