I am running a postgresql application under Mandriva 2011 x86_64, and want to explore the problems in porting it to a Mageia 4 x86_64 environment before actually upgrading. I have installed Mageia 4 as a virtual machine under VBox, installed postgresql 9.3 and sorted out a shared folder to get to the existing database from which the application needs to read data. However I cannot start the virtual postgresql with the existing data directory:
$ ./pg_ctl start -D /mnt/post/pgsql/data &
[1] 3692
[postgres@localhost bin]$ pg_ctl: could not open PID file "/mnt/post/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid": Protocol error

[1]+  Exit 1                  ./pg_ctl start -D /mnt/post/pgsql/data
Is there any advice on running postgresql in a virtual machine connecting to host data?
Thanks
Graeme


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