[vbox-users] VBox doesn;t work with 'kvm' loaded

2009-02-04 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hello all, I have got the Linux 'kvm' module loaded. When I start VBox I get this message: VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE). Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component:

Re: [vbox-users] VBox doesn;t work with 'kvm' loaded

2009-02-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
Amit, On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Amit k. Saha wrote: I have got the Linux 'kvm' module loaded. When I start VBox I get this message: VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE). [...]

Re: [vbox-users] Fail to start the xVM created by clonehd

2009-02-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Rilawich Ango wrote: Hi all, host: Linux (CentOS 5.2) guest (a): Linux (fedora 10) I create a new guest (a) without problem. After that I use VBoxMange clonehd to clone that Virtual Hard Disk. Then I create a new guest (b) using that cloned Virtual Hard

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread Robin Green
Any good operating system lets you control the hardware clock. So you can control it within the VM just as you would normally. On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 03:53:21 -0200 fcassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: I have invested a lot of time and effort in getting certain beta software working. :-) I wonder if

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Ondruška
If you have guest additions installed it will synch your guest clock automatically. There is no GUI option to disable this but should work with command line or direct edit to vm config. Peter 2009/2/4, Robin Green gree...@greenrd.org: Any good operating system lets you control the hardware

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Robin Green gree...@greenrd.org wrote: Any good operating system lets you control the hardware clock. So you can control it within the VM just as you would normally. No I meant on a per-application basis. So that the rest of the system can have the correct time

Re: [vbox-users] best method for virus scanning

2009-02-04 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 09:11 +, Peter Ford wrote: I'm currently working on improving my original solution to the problem of viewing VDIs outside of VBox - I ran a Vbox using a lightweight Linux distro on a live disk image (a Damn Small Linux ISO works quite well) and then mounting the

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:04 PM, fcassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2009, fcassia wrote: I have invested a lot of time and effort in getting certain beta software working. :-) I wonder if it'd

Re: [vbox-users] VBox doesn;t work with 'kvm' loaded

2009-02-04 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: Amit, On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Amit k. Saha wrote: I have got the Linux 'kvm' module loaded. When I start VBox I get this message: VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:06 PM, fcassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: Datefudge perhaps? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=429467 This looks better. Sorry for answering myself. Libfaketime - Changing what time a process thinks it is http://www.linux.com/feature/147801 FC

Re: [vbox-users] VBox doesn;t work with 'kvm' loaded

2009-02-04 Thread Alexander Eichner
Hi Amit, Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 19:36 +0530 schrieb Amit k. Saha: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: Amit, On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Amit k. Saha wrote: I have got the Linux 'kvm' module loaded. When I start VBox I get this message:

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Wednesday 04 February 2009, fcassia wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2009, fcassia wrote: I have invested a lot of time and effort in getting certain beta software working. :-) I wonder if it'd be possible to

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Wednesday 04 February 2009, fcassia wrote: I have invested a lot of time and effort in getting certain beta software working. :-) I wonder if it'd be possible to have Virtualbox lie the date (hardware clock) to the VM so it's always operating on the same date? Currently you can only set an

Re: [vbox-users] VBox doesn;t work with 'kvm' loaded

2009-02-04 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Alexander Eichner alexander.eich...@sun.com wrote: Hi Amit, Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 19:36 +0530 schrieb Amit k. Saha: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: Amit, On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Amit k. Saha wrote:

Re: [vbox-users] best method for virus scanning

2009-02-04 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 15:13 +0100, Fabien Meghazi wrote: Heck, I don't know why everyone isn't just using a flat (i.e. dd'able) image. :-) That would mean fixed sized image I guess. Better for performance, but I guess a lot of people need the growable feature. Indeed. It has

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2009, fcassia wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2009, fcassia wrote: I have invested a lot of time and effort in

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 at 12:36 pm, fcassia penned about Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM? How about the same date? ie, on 23:59 the clock turns back to 00:00 of the same date. :-) Just thinking aloud ... perhaps leveraging day light savings time. This

[vbox-users] Error were encountered while processing 2.1_2.1.2

2009-02-04 Thread Victor Vahe Kevorkian
I have been using Innotek Virtualbox version 1.5.6 successfully for a long time, on Ubuntu 8.0.4 Yesterday I decided to upgrade to version 2.1-2.1., since it was in Synaptics. After selecting the download and proceeded to apply, Synaptic asked me to remove vs 1.5.6 first before installing 2.1-2.1,

Re: [vbox-users] VBox doesn;t work with 'kvm' loaded

2009-02-04 Thread David Brown
Alexander Eichner wrote: Hi Amit, Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 19:36 +0530 schrieb Amit k. Saha: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: Amit, On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Amit k. Saha wrote: I have got the Linux 'kvm' module loaded. When I start VBox

Re: [vbox-users] Error were encountered while processing 2.1_2.1.2

2009-02-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Victor Vahe Kevorkian wrote: The download went on and started the installation when mid way it stopped and the following Error poped out:Error were encountered while processing: E: /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-2.1_2.1.2-41885%5fUbuntu%5fhardy_i386.de b:

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Graham Campbell gc1...@optonline.net wrote: Guys, Think about the implications for a file system if system time is not monotonic increasing. Graham In a properly designed OS there shold be no consequence. I can go in XP or Linux and adjust the clock 4500

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 05 February 2009, fcassia wrote: Or are you telling me that people whom travel to a different time zone do not roll back their system clock? Not if they're using a proper OS like Linux... ;-) ___ vbox-users mailing list

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009, fcassia wrote: Or are you telling me that people whom travel to a different time zone do not roll back their system clock? Not if they're using a proper OS like Linux... ;-) My system clock does not even change for things like daylight

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009, fcassia wrote: Or are you telling me that people whom travel to a different time zone do not roll back their system clock? Not if they're using a proper OS like