I guess I don't understand as the image I am trying to load boots just fine on my development system, but does not boot in the Virtual. First, can you explain how the kernel is different on the two images, and second doesn't the usb driver come enabled by default on all the images created by image-creator?
Greg Pangrazio On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Prajwal Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > James, > The boot scripts look for removable drive to mount the root file system. > If the kernel you are trying to boot does not have USB support built in, it > cannot find one and loops. Make sure you have usb driver enabled in the > kernel. > Thanks, > Praj > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Yeah, I tried the same qemu experiment on a development box running Ubuntu >> 8.10 and a VMWare VM running Ubuntu 8.10 and got the exact same response. >> So I figured it was something between MIC and Qemu. >> >> I think this just goes to show a VMWare VM behaves pretty darn accurately >> as a dev box ;-). >> >> >> >> >>> I get the same response using qemu. This is not just a problem with >>> VMware. >>> >>> >>> Greg Pangrazio >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:09 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I tried the 'launch VM' on MIC in a Ubuntu 8.10 VM under VMWare >>>> Workstation 6.05 and worked...almost at least. I don't have VT-enabled >>>> HW >>>> on my computer, so I hacked gui.py to use qemu. That works in that it >>>> launches the VM. I did not think it was that slow (but definitely >>>> slower >>>> than if I do it on my host machine), but I get caught in the following >>>> endless loop on boot: >>>> >>>> Begin: Mounting root file system >>>> Checking device /dev/sda for installation source... >>>> Checking device /dev/sdb for installation source... >>>> Checking device /dev/sdc for installation source... >>>> Checking device /dev/sdd for installation source... >>>> sleeping 5 seconds >>>> Checking device /dev/sda for installation source... >>>> Checking device /dev/sdb for installation source... >>>> Checking device /dev/sdc for installation source... >>>> Checking device /dev/sdd for installation source... >>>> sleeping 5 seconds >>>> . >>>> . >>>> I filed bug 135 in bugzilla.moblin.org on this. >>>> >>>> I have 4Gigs of RAM and a dual-core Pentium to try and get as much >>>> horsepower for running VMs. Also, I just read doing the following for >>>> /dev/shm to try and get VMs to run faster (though I have not tried it >>>> yet): >>>> >>>> Nevertheless, where can I use /dev/shm? >>>> >>>> You can use /dev/shm to improve the performance of application software >>>> or >>>> overall Linux system performance. On heavily loaded system, it can make >>>> tons of difference. For example VMware workstation/server can be >>>> optimized >>>> to improve your Linux host's performance (i.e. improve the performance >>>> of >>>> your virtual machines). >>>> >>>> For example, if you have 8GB RAM then remount /dev/shm as follows: >>>> # mount -o remount,size=8G /dev/shm >>>> >>>> To be frank, if you have more than 2GB RAM + multiple Virtual machines, >>>> this hack always improves performance. >>>> >>>> # mount -t tmpfs -o size=5G,nr_inodes=5k,mode=700 tmpfs /disk2/tmpfs >>>> >>>> Above will give you tmpfs instance on /disk2/tmpfs which can allocate >>>> 5GB >>>> RAM/SWAP in 5K inodes and it is only accessible by root. >>>> >>>> Whole article is here: >>>> >>>> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/what-is-devshm-and-its-practical-usage.html >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> All, >>>>> I've installed a VMWare virtual machine with Fedora core 9 and >>>>> image-creator on it. >>>>> Now I'd like to create and test an application using an >>>>> >>>>> >>>> emulator >>>> >>>> >>>>> (as Xephyr in Moblin1) but I think that doesn't works anymore. >>>>> I've tried lunching a VM using MIC, but that configuration runs >>>>> extremely slowly -the same configuration using moblin 1 works fine >>>>> -, and I can't execute applications in desktop like firefox. >>>>> Does anybody tested Moblin2 running on a Fedora 9 VM? >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> Cristian >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Moblin dev Mailing List >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: >>>>> https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on >>>>> http://moblin.org once logged in. >>>>> >>>>> For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: >>>>> http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Moblin dev Mailing List >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: >>>> https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on >>>> http://moblin.org once logged in. >>>> >>>> For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: >>>> http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Moblin dev Mailing List >> [email protected] >> >> To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: >> https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on >> http://moblin.org once logged in. >> >> For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: >> http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists >> >> > > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. 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