Re: kvm disk read error
On Mon, 24 May 2010 02:06:36 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun,23.May.10, 13:43:53, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Yes, install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package ;) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done virtualbox-ose-dkms is already the newest version. During the (first) install did it mention something about building the module? If so you might need to modprobe it first (it should be loaded automatically on reboot though). If not, just dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-ose-dkms to force the (re)build of the module. virtual-box works very well. xp installed without a hitch. Thanks for your help. Brian -- 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/20100524190717.1ddcb...@windy.deldotd.com
Re: kvm disk read error
On Sat,22.May.10, 17:16:22, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: trying to install windows xp pro the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get For what purpose do you want to run Windows? Maybe we can suggest better alternatives (like VirtualBox, package virtualbox-ose). Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: kvm disk read error
On Sun, 23 May 2010 10:46:52 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat,22.May.10, 17:16:22, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: trying to install windows xp pro the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get For what purpose do you want to run Windows? Maybe we can suggest better alternatives (like VirtualBox, package virtualbox-ose). Unfortunately there are a couple of windows-only apps that I have to be able to run. Right now I'm dual booting, and would like to avoid that obviously. I will look at virtualbox. Thanks for the suggestion. I just installed kvm under centos and it worked flawlessly, I guess I'm wondering why it's flat-busted broken under debian ?? I could understand if it booted and there was some problem with winblows having issues, but it can't even boot. That seems rather serious. Brian -- 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/20100523113209.517b3...@windy.deldotd.com
Re: kvm disk read error
On Sun, 23 May 2010 10:46:52 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat,22.May.10, 17:16:22, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: trying to install windows xp pro the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get For what purpose do you want to run Windows? Maybe we can suggest better alternatives (like VirtualBox, package virtualbox-ose). Regards, Andrei WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64. after spending a lot of time with the (incorrect) wiki page and package search, I can't make it work. any advice ? Brian p.s. vboxdrv doesn't show up in the unstable package search ! -- 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/20100523124502.05c84...@windy.deldotd.com
Re: kvm disk read error
On Sun,23.May.10, 12:45:02, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64. after spending a lot of time with the (incorrect) wiki page and package search, I can't make it work. any advice ? Yes, install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package ;) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: kvm disk read error
On Sun,23.May.10, 11:32:09, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010 10:46:52 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat,22.May.10, 17:16:22, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: trying to install windows xp pro the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get For what purpose do you want to run Windows? Maybe we can suggest better alternatives (like VirtualBox, package virtualbox-ose). Unfortunately there are a couple of windows-only apps that I have to be able to run. Right now I'm dual booting, and would like to avoid that obviously. More details? Depending on the specific application(s) there might be alternatives that you didn't think of. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: kvm disk read error
On Sun, 23 May 2010 23:25:19 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun,23.May.10, 12:45:02, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64. after spending a lot of time with the (incorrect) wiki page and package search, I can't make it work. any advice ? Yes, install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package ;) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done virtualbox-ose-dkms is already the newest version. :-( Brian -- 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/20100523134353.67a1b...@windy.deldotd.com
Re: kvm disk read error
On 05/23/2010 09:45 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010 10:46:52 +0300 Andrei Popescuandreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat,22.May.10, 17:16:22, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: trying to install windows xp pro the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get For what purpose do you want to run Windows? Maybe we can suggest better alternatives (like VirtualBox, package virtualbox-ose). Regards, Andrei WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64. after spending a lot of time with the (incorrect) wiki page and package search, I can't make it work. any advice ? Brian p.s. vboxdrv doesn't show up in the unstable package search ! Do you have linux-headers? Virtualbox think that you have amd64, so you will need linux-headers-2.6.32-3-amd64. Change the number version with your kernel version. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414 -- 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/4bf99921.4030...@dobosevic.com
Re: kvm disk read error
On Sun,23.May.10, 13:43:53, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Yes, install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package ;) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done virtualbox-ose-dkms is already the newest version. During the (first) install did it mention something about building the module? If so you might need to modprobe it first (it should be loaded automatically on reboot though). If not, just dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-ose-dkms to force the (re)build of the module. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: kvm disk read error
On 2010-05-23, bri...@aracnet.com bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2010 23:25:19 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun,23.May.10, 12:45:02, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist. Please install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package and the appropriate headers, most likely linux-headers-amd64. after spending a lot of time with the (incorrect) wiki page and package search, I can't make it work. any advice ? Yes, install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package ;) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done virtualbox-ose-dkms is already the newest version. From the output of 'apt-cache show virtualbox-ose-dkms': This package provides the source code for the virtualbox kernel module to be build with dkms. The virtualbox-ose package is also required in order to make use of these modules. Kernel sources or headers are required to compile this module. Have you met those requirements? -- Liam O'Toole Birmingham, United Kingdom -- 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/slrnhvjebk.b3s.liam.p.oto...@dipsy.selfip.org
Re: kvm disk read error
On Mon, 24 May 2010 02:06:36 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun,23.May.10, 13:43:53, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: Yes, install the virtualbox-ose-dkms package ;) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done virtualbox-ose-dkms is already the newest version. During the (first) install did it mention something about building the module? If so you might need to modprobe it first (it should be loaded automatically on reboot though). If not, just dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-ose-dkms to force the (re)build of the module. That was the problem ! As soon as I ran the reconfigure it began building the modules. Everything else was installed as the build ran smoothly. I'm not sure why they didn't get built in the first place. Now I understand why it's not showing up when I search packages, the module is no longer installed as part of a package but is built when the package is installed (or is supposed to be). Thank you very much for your help. Now we'll see if I can get XP installed :-) Brian -- 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/20100523164810.3800e...@windy.deldotd.com
kvm disk read error
trying to install windows xp pro the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get Booting from hard disk a disk read error occurred I started with virt-manager, and got the above error messages. then I found some potential fixes using the command line: Here's the command lines I tried: sudo kvm -m 512 -cdrom /dev/cdrom1 -boot d /var/lib/libvirt/images/windoze.img sudo kvm -m 512 -cdrom /dev/cdrom1 -boot c /var/lib/libvirt/images/windoze.img That didn't work either. There's a bug filed against this problem with the EXCEEDINGLY UNHELPFUL advice to use the qemu command line to run things, without any sort of example of what those commands should look like. Help ? Thanks, Brian -- 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/20100522171622.479d0...@windy.deldotd.com
Re: kvm disk read error
On 05/23/2010 02:16 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: trying to install windows xp pro the installation goes just fine but when I try to run the vm I get Booting from hard disk a disk read error occurred I started with virt-manager, and got the above error messages. then I found some potential fixes using the command line: Here's the command lines I tried: sudo kvm -m 512 -cdrom /dev/cdrom1 -boot d /var/lib/libvirt/images/windoze.img sudo kvm -m 512 -cdrom /dev/cdrom1 -boot c /var/lib/libvirt/images/windoze.img That didn't work either. There's a bug filed against this problem with the EXCEEDINGLY UNHELPFUL advice to use the qemu command line to run things, without any sort of example of what those commands should look like. Help ? Thanks, Brian Hi, There is aqemu. It is gui for qemu and it is really user friendly. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414 -- 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/4bf87e0c.2060...@dobosevic.com
