Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:15:39 +0800, ernest wrote: > This may not be the correct place for me to post this question but i > couldn't find anywhere that i can. Please direct me to the correct forum > if it is the wrong place. This is a good place for me :-) > I have two partitions created on my Laptop, one for Win XP and the other > for Debian Squeeze. > > I read about this article and tried the suggestions. Booted from Win XP > (as Host)and created a .VMDK file to boot Debian VM guest from the > "REAL" Debian partition. It works and able to logon into the linux > system. Note that VirtualBox does not recommend using this kind of "raw¹" images as this is an expert feature and can badly crash, you've been warned. > However, I encountered problem with networking. I'm unable to ping > anyone else except local host. When check on IFCONFIG, there is no eth0 > configured. >From the guest, run: dmesg | grep -i eth lspci | grep -i ether > To confirm if my ethernet card is ok, i booted up Linux from Linux > partition. It came up perfectly ok and I can ping my gateway and i can > see eth0 in IFCONIG. > > Did i missed anything or the networking would not work in this kind of > setup? The first thing to get is having the network card detected in the guest, while kernel sees no adapter, no networking facility will be available. Also, as an aside note, remember that to have the guest working as another computer in the network, you have to configure the network card device from the VM setup in bridge² mode, this way the guest will act independently because a NATed device will only be able to see itself and reach the gateway (for web browsing). ¹https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk ² https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k0jamf$svs$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
Hi On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:15:39AM +0100, ernest wrote: > Hi > > This may not be the correct place for me to post this question but i > couldn't find anywhere that i can. Please direct me to the correct forum > if it is the wrong place. Not sure this is the correct place, but it _is_ debian related, so I'll bite... > I have two partitions created on my Laptop, one for Win XP and the other > for Debian Squeeze. > > I read about this article and tried the suggestions. Booted from Win XP > (as Host)and created a .VMDK file to boot Debian VM guest from the > "REAL" Debian partition. It works and able to logon into the linux system. Ouwh... Running Debian inside a virtual machine on an XP box?? Sounds like a bad idea, for both performance and stability. You'll probably find that the preference around here is the other way around (if you really insist on running XP at all!). But then again, this is a debian mailing list... > However, I encountered problem with networking. I'm unable to ping > anyone else except local host. When check on IFCONFIG, there is no eth0 > configured. I assume that you have networking set up in virtualbox. Is there _any_ eth* device? Perhaps you have an eth1? Debian will remember the MAC address of the network cards in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (so that eth0/eth1/eth* dont swap around depending on the order the kernel detects them). Since you probably have a different MAC address inside virtualbox, the "new" one will be eth1 (or eth2 if you already had an eth1 etc). If you remove /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, it will be re-created on the next boot. > To confirm if my ethernet card is ok, i booted up Linux from Linux > partition. It came up perfectly ok and I can ping my gateway and i can > see eth0 in IFCONIG. I assume that the network card works OK in Win XP ? if not, then all bets are off: If the underlying machine does not have networking, the virtual machines will be "isolated" too... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120816115815.GC10144@hawking
Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
Hi This may not be the correct place for me to post this question but i couldn't find anywhere that i can. Please direct me to the correct forum if it is the wrong place. I have two partitions created on my Laptop, one for Win XP and the other for Debian Squeeze. I read about this article and tried the suggestions. Booted from Win XP (as Host)and created a .VMDK file to boot Debian VM guest from the "REAL" Debian partition. It works and able to logon into the linux system. However, I encountered problem with networking. I'm unable to ping anyone else except local host. When check on IFCONFIG, there is no eth0 configured. To confirm if my ethernet card is ok, i booted up Linux from Linux partition. It came up perfectly ok and I can ping my gateway and i can see eth0 in IFCONIG. Did i missed anything or the networking would not work in this kind of setup? Appreciate your input & advise. -- Regards, Ernest -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/502cc84b.1050...@cse.com.my
Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
Wackojacko wrote: Is this a typo in the e-mail or the command? Was me fat fingering it. Sure enough, put the h in and it worked. Thanks much for a second application of the clue-by-four. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
Steve Lamb wrote: Hrm, not sure, I'm getting the dreaded VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND error. Will have to twiddle with this tomorrow night. C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmd k -filename test.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PysicalDrive0 ^ Is this a typo in the e-mail or the command? VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.2 (C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Error opening the raw disk: VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND I did get this initially but the latest versions seem to work OK. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
Wackojacko wrote: The command is the same except the device section is as follows (from user manual section 9.9) *On a Windows host, instead of the above device specification, use e.g. \\.\PhysicalDrive0.* Cripes, good catch. I can see how I missed it being one line and not in the same format as all the other command lines. *sigh* Thanks for the clue-by-four. ;) May need full path to VBoxManage to work. Hrm, not sure, I'm getting the dreaded VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND error. Will have to twiddle with this tomorrow night. C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmd k -filename test.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PysicalDrive0 VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.2 (C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Error opening the raw disk: VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND Tried the fakembr package but as I have grub in the MBR of the physical disk it wouldn't work for me. I eventually used a grub floppy image mounted at boot time pointing to the menu.lst on the linux partition which works! Ha, cute! Will have to remember that. Thanks again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:27:53PM -0400, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > Nope. What I want to do is have my Windows host boot a Linux guest from a > *real* hard drive partition, not an image. The VirtualBox help gives a method > to do the reverse, IE, a Linux host booting a real Windows partition. > However, the command to do so references the partition from the /dev tree; > something that obviously will not work for a Windows host. I'm looking for > the Windows version of that command. Risky. The Linux kernel won't be seeing the real hardware, because VirtualBox virtualizes everything. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
Steve C. Lamb wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:08:30PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: Hi. I'm not quite sure what you want to do, but it sounds to me like you want a windows host to boot a linux guest. Correct. So, you need to download the correct windows binary, install it and then create the linux guest in the windows host. This is where I am now. A Windows host is booting a Linux guest from a hard drive image. Did that answer your question? Nope. What I want to do is have my Windows host boot a Linux guest from a *real* hard drive partition, not an image. The VirtualBox help gives a method to do the reverse, IE, a Linux host booting a real Windows partition. However, the command to do so references the partition from the /dev tree; something that obviously will not work for a Windows host. I'm looking for the Windows version of that command. The command is the same except the device section is as follows (from user manual section 9.9) *On a Windows host, instead of the above device specification, use e.g. \\.\PhysicalDrive0.* May need full path to VBoxManage to work. The only problem I had was getting an mbr to boot the linux partition. Tried the fakembr package but as I have grub in the MBR of the physical disk it wouldn't work for me. I eventually used a grub floppy image mounted at boot time pointing to the menu.lst on the linux partition which works! HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:08:30PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > Hi. I'm not quite sure what you want to do, but it sounds to me like you > want a windows host to boot a linux guest. Correct. > So, you need to download the correct windows binary, install it and then > create the linux guest in the windows host. This is where I am now. A Windows host is booting a Linux guest from a hard drive image. > Did that answer your question? Nope. What I want to do is have my Windows host boot a Linux guest from a *real* hard drive partition, not an image. The VirtualBox help gives a method to do the reverse, IE, a Linux host booting a real Windows partition. However, the command to do so references the partition from the /dev tree; something that obviously will not work for a Windows host. I'm looking for the Windows version of that command. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
On Tuesday 15 July 2008 08:51 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hello, > Anyone know how to get VirtualBox to make a definition to book a Linux > host from a partition? The instructions I have found thus far reference > the partition as /dev/sda...blah.blah.blah That's great for when I > want to boot Windows from my Linux partition (might try that tonight) but I > want to do the opposite. :( Hi. I'm not quite sure what you want to do, but it sounds to me like you want a windows host to boot a linux guest. So, you need to download the correct windows binary, install it and then create the linux guest in the windows host. Did that answer your question? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
Hello, Anyone know how to get VirtualBox to make a definition to book a Linux host from a partition? The instructions I have found thus far reference the partition as /dev/sda...blah.blah.blah That's great for when I want to boot Windows from my Linux partition (might try that tonight) but I want to do the opposite. :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
