[Lancaster] installs on virtual box

[jonath]

If anyone's bothered . . . the solution was simple enough: reboot the
computer. I think some weirdness was going on with kernels and modules
and such-like. Everything working fine now.

The error regarding 'you need to run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv start' was a
complete red herring. The problem was that VirtualBox requires a few
kernel modules to be installed (e.g. modprobe vboxdrv) and one of
these wasn't loading up using modprobe. It's possible to have this
done automatically at start-up (via
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6) and, when I did the re-boot with
the modules listed in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 it all worked
fine.

Next question: I wonder if I can run a virtual machine over the
network (via NFS)?! That is, VirtualBox installed on one machine, but
virtual hard drive for virtual machine located on another machine, on
a drive shared out via NFS.

jonathan

2009/10/14 Wayne Ward <wayne at lancastercomputers.co.uk>:
> Hi jonathan i did this on my macbook in virtualbox
> it sounds to me like the upgrade isnt upgrading the module properly
> I would look at a emerge removal with a purge then go and check it has
> removed the module and other items
> them re-emerge it - its sounds like the old module is lurking.......
> wayne
> On 14 Oct 2009, at 15:39, jonath wrote:
>
> 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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