Hi,
At the Meeting, Tim mentioned that he was having great success using gnome-
boxes and thought that it should work fine as a replacement for hosting Win XP
in
VirtualBox (VirtualBox is a pain because every update breaks USB support).
So I installed it on my machine here (Caveat: this computer is running Kubuntu
14.10 and no Gnome desktop).
It launched OK and I first of all tried importing my VirtualBox image to save a
bit of
time. That seemed to work OK and Windows started to open, but then flagged up
a message saying that there had been a problem, ( I presume because Windows
Activation wants to see the old platform, not the new one that the image is now
sitting on). I therefore assumed that I'd have to reinstall from scratch and
reactivate.
I don't have the original Windows ISO at the moment, so I thought I'd try
grabbing
the Fedora 21 ISO off the latest Linux Format DVD. That seemed to work, but
then
I just got a grey screen, when I tried to launch it. I was never asked to go
though
the Installation process, so presumably, Boxes has laid down the CD image
without
try to boot into it.
I then tried to pick up the installation from a CD in my DVD Drive. The Help
says:
1. At the wizard's Source Selection screen, choose a source to determine
the
type of box you want to create.
<screenshot here>
1. Create a local virtual machine using one of the following:
* select from the list of isos found by /Boxes/.
* insert installation media in your CD/DVD drive or USB port.
* provide a filename or location for an iso file.
* provide a URL to connect locally as you would for a remote
connection[1].
Whatever I do, I can't seem to get the thing to 'see' something on the CD that
it
can load. It just keeps opening the folders on the CD.
What is going on?
--
Terry Coles
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