Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have been using a windows 7 virtual machine guest with a gentoo linux virtualbox host for a while. I was never able to get sound working on the guest but it works on the host. Recently I decided to re-emerge virtualbox with the USE flag pulseaudio to try to get sound working. After the emerge (list below) I also re-emerged the virtualbox-modules-3.2.12; logged out and rebooted. Now when I try to start virtualbox, it lists the guest machine as inaccessible; no other information is provided by the virtualbox startup window. I would appreciate inputs on how to fix this. Thanks, -- Valmor A couple of questions: 1) Is the machine on a RAID partition or some other form of storage which, for whatever reason, isn't mounted? I have that problem now and again on my compute server. The Linux kernel guys haven't made my drive D E disk interfaces 100% reliable as of yet so in my case I might have to reboot once or twice to get the drives recognized. 2) What kernel are you using. I saw a few messages this week on Virtualbox problems when running the 2.6.38 series kernel. I'm running 2.6.38 and haven't seen them myself though. Good luck, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine
On 03/29/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have been using a windows 7 virtual machine guest with a gentoo linux virtualbox host for a while. I was never able to get sound working on the guest but it works on the host. Recently I decided to re-emerge virtualbox with the USE flag pulseaudio to try to get sound working. After the emerge (list below) I also re-emerged the virtualbox-modules-3.2.12; logged out and rebooted. Now when I try to start virtualbox, it lists the guest machine as inaccessible; no other information is provided by the virtualbox startup window. I would appreciate inputs on how to fix this. Thanks, -- Valmor A couple of questions: 1) Is the machine on a RAID partition or some other form of storage which, for whatever reason, isn't mounted? I have that problem now and again on my compute server. The Linux kernel guys haven't made my drive D E disk interfaces 100% reliable as of yet so in my case I might have to reboot once or twice to get the drives recognized. 2) What kernel are you using. I saw a few messages this week on Virtualbox problems when running the 2.6.38 series kernel. I'm running 2.6.38 and haven't seen them myself though. Good luck, Mark I am running VB on a gentoo laptop; everything is mounted. I have not had any problems for a long time. I sync'ed portage a couple of weeks ago and the VB worked with my virtual win7 machine without problems. I am using 2.6.36-gentoo-r5. I have been searching the web and the VB forum pages but no luck yet. In the meantime I re-emerged VB without the pulseaudio USE flag and copied a working backup of .VirtualBox/ to my home directory; still get the same message (inaccessible). I will try an older backup later. Thanks, -- Valmor - emerge --info Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.3-r0, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 x86_64) = System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_L_640_@_2.13GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:15:01 + app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox:2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64
[CLOSED] Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine
On 03/29/2011 09:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: On 03/29/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] A couple of questions: 1) Is the machine on a RAID partition or some other form of storage which, for whatever reason, isn't mounted? I have that problem now and again on my compute server. The Linux kernel guys haven't made my drive D E disk interfaces 100% reliable as of yet so in my case I might have to reboot once or twice to get the drives recognized. 2) What kernel are you using. I saw a few messages this week on Virtualbox problems when running the 2.6.38 series kernel. I'm running 2.6.38 and haven't seen them myself though. Good luck, Mark I am running VB on a gentoo laptop; everything is mounted. I have not had any problems for a long time. I sync'ed portage a couple of weeks ago and the VB worked with my virtual win7 machine without problems. I am using 2.6.36-gentoo-r5. I have been searching the web and the VB forum pages but no luck yet. In the meantime I re-emerged VB without the pulseaudio USE flag and copied a working backup of .VirtualBox/ to my home directory; still get the same message (inaccessible). I will try an older backup later. Thanks, -- Valmor I went back to a previous windows 7 VM backup and re-emerged VB without the pulseaudio flag. All worked. I also installed AC'97 codecs driver in the windows 7 VM and got sound working. Interesting that the VM got corrupted when VB was emerged with the pulseaudio USE flag. -- Valmor [snip]
Re: [CLOSED] Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine
On Tuesday 29 March 2011 17:06:23 Valmor de Almeida wrote: I went back to a previous windows 7 VM backup and re-emerged VB without the pulseaudio flag. All worked. I also installed AC'97 codecs driver in the windows 7 VM and got sound working. Interesting that the VM got corrupted when VB was emerged with the pulseaudio USE flag. The only time I ended up with a corrupted guest OS was when I overdid it on snapshots and run out of space on the virtual partition. Do you have enough space? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [CLOSED] Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine
On 03/29/2011 05:56 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 29 March 2011 17:06:23 Valmor de Almeida wrote: I went back to a previous windows 7 VM backup and re-emerged VB without the pulseaudio flag. All worked. I also installed AC'97 codecs driver in the windows 7 VM and got sound working. Interesting that the VM got corrupted when VB was emerged with the pulseaudio USE flag. The only time I ended up with a corrupted guest OS was when I overdid it on snapshots and run out of space on the virtual partition. Do you have enough space? I have enough space and I have not used snapshots for a very long time. -- Valmor
