[Lancaster] installs on virtual box

[jonath]

Wayne,

What software do you use for making your virtual boxes? I'm always
having problems with virtual machines. I use to use VMWare Workstation
(I think it was), which kind of worked okay (mostly), but it was a bit
of behemoth. I then tried out VirtualBox, when has been okay up until
recently (until I upgraded from 1.6 to 3.0.something). Now I get some
weird error telling me I need to run '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start'. Of
course, that file doesn't exist. Downgrading doesn't seem to work
either. Joy, joy, joy. This is all on a Gentoo system.

jonathan

2009/10/14 Wayne Ward <wayne at lancastercomputers.co.uk>:
> Mananged to get gentoo and arch and debian all in virtual boxes last night
> i was talking to gareth on sykpe through the installs and tested out some
> screen sharing etc which was awsome
> gareth managed to get the new ubuntu installed and shared his screen to give
> me a preview!!!
> i think the gentoo install took around hour and a half and the arch was a
> hour - the debian install was around 20 minutes but that has no real hard
> work to do!!! all these installs were just to a basic command prompt so you
> build on top of that - the gentoo install i built everything required into
> the kernel so no modules!! and cut all the rubbish out of the kernel - and
> the install was very basic using minimal packages and no use flags - so this
> could be shown at a meeting no problem although im thinking to start this of
> we should start from easier installs first im thinking
> Base system installs
> debian install
> arch install
> gentoo install
> Build on top of the base systems
> debain
> arch
> gentoo
> So one week so the debain and arch if people can handle this or start slowly
> with the debian??...
> I was thinking for next months meeting although i have to say i cant make
> the first wednesday of the month and wanted to arrange the meeting for the
> next week if everybody is okay with this.
> gareth how did you get on with the gento 10.0 install???
> Regards,
> Wayne ward
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