Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-22 Thread MJang
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 22:47 -0700, Russell Senior wrote: Daniel == Daniel Herrington dherring...@robertmarktech.com writes: Daniel Have you tried KVM? I've been using it successfully without Daniel issues for about a year. I find it very intuitive and easy to Daniel build, copy, and

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-22 Thread Paul Mullen
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 03:18:36PM -0700, MJang wrote: With KVM, it's so convenient to be able to start a VM from the command line, e.g. the following boots the noted system -- VirtualBox has a full-featured command line interface, too. VBoxManage startvm Your_Virtual_Systems_Name_Here starts

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-21 Thread MJang
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 14:04 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Daniel Herrington wrote: Have you tried KVM? I've been using it successfully without issues for about a year. I find it very intuitive and easy to build, copy, and maintain images on the command line. +1

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-21 Thread Robert Citek
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:18 PM, MJang m...@linuxexam.com wrote: When networking is configured to start normally, you can connect to it with SSH like any other remote system. How about a virtual serial console for choosing a kernel to boot and watching the boot messages? That would be very

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Robert Citek wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:18 PM, MJang m...@linuxexam.com wrote: When networking is configured to start normally, you can connect to it with SSH like any other remote system. How about a virtual serial console for choosing a kernel to boot and

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-21 Thread Tim
How about a virtual serial console for choosing a kernel to boot and watching the boot messages? virsh start YourVM --console It's been a while since I used it, but kvm (qemu) also has a VNC console setting which could accomplish this same thing. This is similar to VMWare's

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-21 Thread Robert Citek
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Robert Citek wrote: How about a virtual serial console for choosing a kernel to boot and watching the boot messages?   virsh start YourVM --console Nice. How do you connect to it? I have set up

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-21 Thread Dan Young
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Tim tim-pdx...@sentinelchicken.org wrote: How about a virtual serial console for choosing a kernel to boot and watching the boot messages?    virsh start YourVM --console It's been a while since I used it, but kvm (qemu) also has a VNC console setting

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-21 Thread Russell Senior
Daniel == Daniel Herrington dherring...@robertmarktech.com writes: Daniel Have you tried KVM? I've been using it successfully without Daniel issues for about a year. I find it very intuitive and easy to Daniel build, copy, and maintain images on the command line. One place that VirtualBox seems

[PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-20 Thread David Mandel
Have people had problems with Virtual Box on openSuSE or other Linux? Or have I simply screwed something up with my particular installation of Virtual Box? I originally used Virtual Box with Windows 7 as the host OS and was able to install and run most any OS I wanted including openSuSE, Fedora,

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-20 Thread Daniel Herrington
David, I had to abandon virtual box on Ubuntu because I ran into some serious issues early on. Could barely get through a Windows Server install, and accessing the machine was very slow. I used vmware server on Ubuntu but it's no longer supported. I finally settled on KVM. Have you tried

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Daniel Herrington wrote: Have you tried KVM? I've been using it successfully without issues for about a year. I find it very intuitive and easy to build, copy, and maintain images on the command line. +1 Here's a shell script (some details elided) I used to install

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-20 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
On 04/20/2011 01:49 PM, David Mandel wrote: Have people had problems with Virtual Box on openSuSE or other Linux? Or have I simply screwed something up with my particular installation of Virtual Box? I originally used Virtual Box with Windows 7 as the host OS and was able to install and run

Re: [PLUG] Problems with Virtual Box

2011-04-20 Thread Jason Barnett
I recently took a networking class and successfully installed Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Fedora 13 and Ubuntu 10.04. All without issues. I was using Kubuntu 10.10 as the host. Which version of VB are you using? Version 4 has made a lot of changes that make it