[Lancaster] installs on virtual box

[Wayne Ward]

aaahhh yes when you start the service for the first time it builds te  
module on gentoo
brings back memories!!!
ive been testing quite a few distros over the past few days and i  
forgot how good gentoo was

netbsd is nice just need to learn how to administer it!!

Wayne


On 15 Oct 2009, at 09:23, jonath wrote:

> 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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>>
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