Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:35:41 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 08 September 2009 18:56:50 walt wrote: Are you seeing something very different at your end? Yes. I've created just one VM (this is on my KDE-4 test system). On the Details tab I get a list of configuration variables

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 10 September 2009 09:45:46 J. Roeleveld wrote: In addition to the screenshot, using Linux it's very easy to create an ISO-file from an existing CD/DVD. I always do it with: # cp /dev/cdrom path-to/bladiebla.iso (change paths / names as appropriate) No need to install additional

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 10 September 2009 02:31:20 walt wrote: I'm attaching a screen capture of the dialog window I see when mounting an ISO file on the vm's virtual CD player. If you are seeing something very different, then that's where we need to start debugging. Ah! Are you telling me I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 10 September 2009 12:04:52 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 10 September 2009 09:45:46 J. Roeleveld wrote: In addition to the screenshot, using Linux it's very easy to create an ISO-file from an existing CD/DVD. I always do it with: # cp /dev/cdrom path-to/bladiebla.iso

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread walt
On 09/10/2009 03:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 10 September 2009 02:31:20 walt wrote: I'm attaching a screen capture of the dialog window I see when mounting an ISO file on the vm's virtual CD player. If you are seeing something very different, then that's where we need to start

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 18:56:50 walt wrote: Are you seeing something very different at your end? Yes. I've created just one VM (this is on my KDE-4 test system). On the Details tab I get a list of configuration variables with their values. Under CD/DVD ROM I have Mount CD/DVD drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 07 September 2009 22:29:31 walt wrote: On 09/07/2009 02:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I tried it, but on my box it can't detect either of the DVD drives, so I can't install a client. Hm, never tried that. The reason is that I've always just used an iso file 'mounted' on the

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-08 Thread walt
On 09/08/2009 08:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 07 September 2009 22:29:31 walt wrote: On 09/07/2009 02:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I tried it, but on my box it can't detect either of the DVD drives, so I can't install a client. Hm, never tried that. The reason is that I've always

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 05 September 2009 23:06:37 walt wrote: I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. I suggest you fetch the latest stable binary package

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-07 Thread walt
On 09/07/2009 02:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 05 September 2009 23:06:37 walt wrote: I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. I suggest

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
walt wrote: [] I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. Some questions, please: 1. How would you contrast these two packages for security use?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread Nick Khamis
1) Security is for exploiting 2) If they are well versed on the drivers that virtualization technologies use, then yes they can tell they are on a virtual machine and not on dedicated server. 3) You can bridge network connection physically on the network minus the nic of course 4) Virtualization

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread walt
On 09/06/2009 09:38 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: walt wrote: [] I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. Some questions, please: 1. How would you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:14 PM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2009 09:38 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: walt wrote: [] I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread walt
On 09/05/2009 01:59 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hey Neil, I tried to compile virtualbox using intructions here http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VirtualBox;. And it was unsuccesful, I have attached the build.log As I said in a different thread, that version of virtualbox-modules will build