How to run Ms Dynamics Ax 2012 on Virtual Box

Click on the below link

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Download Virtual box and its Extension pack

Once you have installed create a New Virtual Machine

Select windows 2008 64 bit

Allocate a good portion of memory recommended 4GB

Un-Tick the boot hard disk,Add disks manual after the wizard is finished

Click on your new virtual image settings

Navigate to storage,
Add Hard Disks by clicking on Disk icon - then choose existing Disk
Repeat these steps to all the three vhd files
AX5-W8R2-01.vhd
AX5-W8R2-01_DB.vhd
AX5-W8R2-01_PF.vhd

After you have finished. Settings should look like this:

Start your image

Configure sharepoint 

After you have managed to get it to start, there are a couple other things to be aware of:

 Start the AOS by going to the windows services and start manually

 All seems to work except for Enterprise Portal

To fix this modify your hosts file “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\Hosts”

Open this file with notepad and add in the line

                127.0.0.1              Sharepoint 

                127.0.0.1              dynamicsax.contoso.com

It should look like this:

When you run a report - it will be slow on first run. Don't kill it; leave it for a few minutes. Mine took ~4minutes to run first time. After that, it is very responsive. Standard SSRS caching.

Update 07-10-2011:

RTM version of the image uses

127.0.0.1 dynamicsax.contoso.com

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