Hello developer community,
I had an old LilyDev system, I got errors when running ./configure. So I decided to download a new image. During this process I discovered a lot of issues in both documentation and the product itself. I am not sure if this is the right place to share my observations, but I do it anyway: Below I mention a lot of issues in the lilydev image and the documentation, however this image is still far better, as installing all products by hand, and find out why a configuration is not working! At least for 4 years we can download only one flavor of the image: Debian. In the documentation the image mentioned is lilydev-vm-fedora-VERSION.raw * Issue 1: bad file name in documentation The real name is lilydev-debian-vm-0.3.img This is minor, but especially the different file extension can be confusing. The version is already 0.3 for years although the image is changed several times. * Issue 2: no version number change According to the documentation we should select as version 'Fedora (64 bit)', however since we use an Debian image I think we better choose "Debian 64 bits" * Issue 3: bad choice in documentation After booting, according to the documentation, we should change some settings on the menu * Issue 4 menu is not bottom left, but top left * Issue 5 Preference is now called Settings * Issue 6 Documentation says default is US keyboard, however it is an Italian keyboard !! According to the documentation I should disable the screensaver, however, I can not found that setting * Issue 7 QTerminal is not in System tools (is not installed at all), but we can use Xfce terminal from System menu Now installing the virtual box guest additions: * Issue 8 CD is not automounted, we have to mount it using sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt And then the guest additions will not install. It needs the kernel headers for 4.9.0.8-amd. Those are not installed, and are not available from Debian. * Suggestion: in the next release of lilydev include the kernel headers So I have to install a new kernel Sudo apt-get lnstall apt-get linux-image-amd64 And for the kernel headers Sudo apt-get lnstall apt-get linux-headers-amd64 Reboot and: still in 4.9.0.8 Now comes the tricky part, before doing this shut down your machine, and make a copy of your image!! Sudo rm /boot/efi/55aa6561f8d74f2baf7279c3b099bc55/4.9.0-8-amd64/* Sudo cp initrd.img-4.9.0-11-amd64 /boot/efi/55aa6561f8d74f2baf7279c3b099bc55/4.9.0-8-amd64/initrd Sudo cp vmlinuz-4.9.0-11-amd64 /boot/efi/55aa6561f8d74f2baf7279c3b099bc55/4.9.0-8-amd64/linux Reboot, and it works. I am sure there is a more elegant way, but after 8 hours of trying I decided to use this way Now we are booted in 4.9.0.11, we can mount the guest additions iso. Sudo ./autorun.sh does not work, but sudo ./ VBoxLinuxAdditions.run does. Jaap de Wolff
