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by **edgevision** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:38

For me, VirtualBox works great. Saved me the hassle of obtaining VMware, which is what I initially planned to use.

by **dyingmuppet** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 15:41

I only need vmware because in virtualbox or the others I couldn't get my host folders shared to the client and vice versa, I need some files from my virtual machine on my host machine.
I found out that with virtualbox you can share host folders too, but I couldn't get that to work, because the guest did not see the shared folders, which I added before...

grtzz DM

by **phlo** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 9:37

Hi,

the problem with virtualbox and shared folders is simple.

Read the Manual ;-)

When you do it exact as it is documented, you will see it works.
I had the same Problem and it took me awaile bevor i found out how stupid i am :-D

But to help you, 2 single lines what will solve your problem.

on your host.

VBoxManage sharedfolder add "VM name" -name "sharename" -hostpath "C:\test"
(never forget the " )

on your guest (I asume you're using windoof)
open cmd.exe
net use x: \\vboxsvr\sharename

now your share is availabel as x:

Its sound silly but it works. My problem was always that i aspekted a gui, and later i never used double qoutes.

Try it you'll see it works.

Have fun

phlo

by **lxnay** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:51

1) KVM: needs a KVM-enabled Processor
2) VMware: closed source, Actual vmware-server has issues with >2.6.20 kernel, it's a VMware fault. The only working version that I am aware of is 6.0 (which works like a charm on 2.6.22)
3) VirtualBox: can't be run from DVD but works like a charm after install
4) Virt-Manager: depends on KVM, so you need a KVM-enabled Processor. It's open source and at its early stages of development.

by **chickpea** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 16:29

Virtualbox totally b0rked my system today. I had to do a hard restart. Ouch! Luckily everything worked booted up allright.

SL DOES NOT LIKE the guest OS to eject the CD/DVD. That was a big boo boo.

Anyone know how to make an .iso out of some old XP recovery cds? The set is 1 CD and 2 DVDs. The cd runs first and then the two DVDs. I tried

Code: Select all: mkisofs -o /home/myuser/xpstartup.iso /home/user/xpdisk1/

and then for the other two DVDs, but for some reason Virtual box can't load those iso?

Anyone know any reason why the .iso's might be bad? Some other step I need to do to get Virtualbox to read them?

I run a x86_62 X2 Turion HP Laptop, btw. I tried the VIrtual Manager/QEMU, but that didn't work either.

by **FrozenFox** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 20:28

Chickpea:

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but here goes anyway, I'll describe what I've done to be sure.

Windows doesn't like to install on my sata drive. I recently hacked at some of the files and got it to install properly, but i didnt like a couple other things about the cd, so I'm making it again. I copied all of the cd files to a folder on the desktop, and then burned it using a boot image file on nero as follows, and all worked fine. I just got it to do the same under linux with my new cd using k3b in the last 10 minutes. I came across this:

I got a boot image from the last post here http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?sho ... hl=sisraid (i had to sign up) and followed the instructions at the end of the last post to burn with nero. They worked perfectly.

From the 2nd to last post on this page, http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-338906.html i found this command given the boot image from that other page renamed to BOOT.IMG and put in the cd folder to work just fine.

mkisofs -D -b BOOT.IMG -no-emul-boot -v -N -l -no-iso-translate -relaxed-filenames -o cd1.bin /the_xp_cd_directory/

It put a cd1.bin in my /home/fox directory and i just burned that with k3b. Virtualbox sees it and boots it just fine.

by **phlo** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 21:30

just use k3b to rip your cd's and dvd's to your harddrive an mount the iso's with virtualbox.

by **chickpea** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 21:45

Thanks folks. I wasn't aware that K3b would rip the .iso to the HDD and not just /dev/cdrom

Thanks. That will make it a lot easier. I knew that I was missing some important options with mkisofs that were turning the boot image bad.

Cheers

Bryan

by **gallienus** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:53

Theres a patch to make vmware workstationn work with the 2.6.22 kernels. You can find it here http://knihovny.cvut.cz/ftp/pub/vmware/. It's the vmware-any-any patch.

by **Wait...What?** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 6:31

phlo wrote:just use k3b to rip your cd's and dvd's to your harddrive an mount the iso's with virtualbox.

Never tried virtualbox before. Worked perfectly the first time around! Thx for the tip, I haven't gotten virtual machine manager working since 3.3.

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