Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-06-01 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 01 June 2011 11:52:25 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 03:35, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21:02:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: I see. In my head it is as if we're going against the udev principle of populating required device nodes. If udev

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-06-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:35 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: Considering that ~250 devices consumes a teeny-weeny bit of disk space and they are hidden from view normally, I say it's worth it leaving them in. Which is what vapier also says. I see. In my head it

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-06-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 15:10, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Wednesday 01 June 2011 11:52:25 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 03:35, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21:02:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: I see.  In my head it is as if we're going

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast. *My* suggested solution: Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is using genkernel's 'only create an initramfs' switch (sorry I forgot what exactly). good god

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast. *My* suggested solution: Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is using genkernel's

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-31 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast. *My* suggested solution: Generate an initramfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:27 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-31 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Considering that ~250 devices consumes a teeny-weeny bit of disk space and they are hidden from view normally, I say it's worth it leaving them in. Which is what vapier also says. +1 They are tiny plus when devfs mounts, they aren't visible anymore if I recall

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:12 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Considering that ~250 devices consumes a teeny-weeny bit of disk space and they are hidden from view normally, I say it's worth it leaving them in. Which is what vapier also says.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-31 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21:02:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:27 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-31 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:12 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Considering that ~250 devices consumes a teeny-weeny bit of disk space and they are hidden from view normally, I say it's worth it leaving them in. Which is

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 03:35, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21:02:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:27 on Tuesday 31 May 2011, Mick did opine thusly: On Tuesday 31 May 2011 08:07:24 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 13:56,

[gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-30 Thread walt
In preparation for the upcoming upgrade to gnome3, I've installed the latest gentoo snapshot to a new virtualbox machine. (So I can trash my virtual gentoo machine instead of my real gentoo machine :) The virtual install went perfectly AFAICT, except for building a new customized kernel for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
Are you using a recent stage3 tarball? If so, I suspect your booting problem has got something to do with this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368597 Rgds, On 2011-05-31, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: In preparation for the upcoming upgrade to gnome3, I've installed the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?

2011-05-30 Thread Pandu Poluan
Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast. *My* suggested solution: Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is using genkernel's 'only create an initramfs' switch (sorry I forgot what exactly). This needs to be done exactly once throughout the life of your VM. (To the herd of