Running AX 2012 Hyper-V Virtual Machine on Virtualbox

1. In BIOS mode Enable Virtualization (Depress F2/F11/Esc (depending on laptop maker) à Enters BIOS mode à navigate to "Configurations" à Virtualization technology-- Enable it  à save and exit)
2. Download Part A, of the AX 2012 VM from the below link:  https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/downloads/servicepacks/ax2012demotoolsmaterials.htm?printpage=false&sid=tfzmkzpa4nagr4kp55zzmbgc&stext=AX 2012 Virtual Machine
3. Make sure you have Winrar on your machine 
4. Make sure you have more than 3GB RAM & 100GB free hard disk space 
   
5.  Double click on first file of the downloaded (.exe file, Self Extractor) 
6. After it completes extraction, Go to http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

    Download virtual box and the extension pack.

 

 7. Once you have installed, create a new virtual machine.

8. Select Windows 2008 64bit

9. Allocate a good portion of memory (>2GB recommended)

10. Un-tick the boot Hard Disk. Add disks manual after the wizard is finished.

11. Click on your new virtual image settings

12. Navigate to Storage

Add hard disks by clicking the disk icon – then “Choose existing disk”

Repeat this step for all 3 vhd files.

·         AX5-W8R2-01.vhd

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13. After you have finished. Settings should look like this:

14. Start your image

15. Click ‘Start’  & then click AX 2012, Give default username & Password

Username: Administrator

Password: pass@word1

16. Start services, if not starting, check dependencies and start them (check local system account for all these dependencies and services)

17. Open AX server configuration à copy TCP/IP Port (2712)

18. Open AX configuration à in connection tab change TCP/IP port to 2712