[VBox-users] VirtualBox 5.1 on Omnios (Illumos)
Hi. Anyone have any luck installing VBox 5.1 on Omnios? I am missing: IPS : system/library/gcc/gcc-c++-runtime or system/library/gcc-45-runtime system/library/gcc/gcc-c-runtime or system/library/gcc-45-runtime /usr/sbin/pkgadd -d VirtualBox\-5.1.18\-SunOS\-amd64\-r114002.pkg The following packages are available: 1 SUNWvbox Oracle VM VirtualBox (i386) 5.1.18,REV=2017.03.15.16.41.114002 Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: Processing package instance from Oracle VM VirtualBox(i386) 5.1.18,REV=2017.03.15.16.41.114002 Oracle Corporation ## Executing checkinstall script. Checking package dependencies... ## Missing packages: ## IPS : system/library/gcc/gcc-c++-runtime or system/library/gcc-45-runtime system/library/gcc/gcc-c-runtime or system/library/gcc-45-runtime ## SVr4: SUNWPython SUNWPython-devel ## ## Please install either the IPS or SVr4 packages before installing VirtualBox. pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully Installation of failed. No changes were made to the system. thanks, Geoff -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] moving multiple vms to fresh install of OS same hardware
On 2017-03-21 07:09 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: VBox running several vms on solaris (offshoot) openindiana host > Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5460 @ 3.33GHz - 32 GB ram > > I have several VBox vms running on an openindiana HOST (Solaris 11) > > Need to reinstall on this same host with newer version of same OS. > > What is the best way to move the vms > > Is a simple tarring+bzip2 up of them all and mving them off the > subject host until re-install has been completed. The same filesystem > structure setup ... then: > > Installing VBox for that newly installed OS and openning the > tarred+bzip2'ed file on the new fresh install a viable way to do this? > > Will the VBox install find the unpacked vms ok? > > And finally is it neccessary to include anything but the vms home > files? That is, something like /vb/vm/vm1 /vb/vm/vm2 .. etc where > /vb/vm/vm[0-9] has all disks and other related files in each directory. > > Something like: ls /vb/vm/d0 > Logs d0-0.vdi d0-1.vdi d0-2.vdi d0-3.vdi d0-4.vdi d0.vbox d0.vbox-prev > > Oh yes, and finally would it matter if I installed the newest VBox > release as apposed to the 5.0.28 that the vms are currently running under? > > Hi Harry. Yes, that will work fine. One thing to note, you probably want to separate out your VM storage onto a separate zfs dataset. You can then snapshot and zfs send it to another location. I use zvols and iscsi targets and connect using the vbox built-in iscsi initiator. Another note, make sure the VMs are powered off. Upgrading vbox with saved states is not a good idea. Geoff -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Backup suggestions
On 2017-02-09 08:55 AM, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 19:08:41 -0800 > Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> wrote: > >> On 2017-02-08 06:11 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: >>> On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 12:02:24 -0800 >>> Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Mario. >>>> >>>> I use the pause quite a bit to backup virtual machines. Pausing the >>>> machine will flush the cache and complete all outstanding async IO. >>>> >>>> https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-June/009810.html >>>> >>>> Look for the ignoreflush property and set that. >>>> >>>> VBoxManage setextradata "name" >>>> \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/LUN#[x]/Config/IgnoreFlush" >>>> >>>> As a note, I use iscsi targetsand zfs/solaris to host the data as >>>> zvols. >>>> >>>> Snapshots aren't 100% guaranteed. If you have applications like >>>> Exchangeconsider using something like VSS on Windows. For example, >>>> with Exchange I use VSS and then snapshot the disks from inside the >>>> the VM using putty/plink. Then I know I am getting a good copy of >>>> the data. >>>> >>>> Other applications may havereplication options. >>>> >>>> For things like SQL, I use a separate backup application to >>>> explicitly backup the database, just to make sure. >>>> >>>> >>>> Geoff >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2017-02-06 03:36 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: >>>>> Hi to all. >>>>> >>>>> Currently, my backup routine consists of shutting down all VMs, >>>>> copy all their .VDI files to the standby server, and restart the >>>>> VMs. >>>>> >>>>> The obvious reason is for the standby server to be ready to run >>>>> the VMs in case the primary server fails. >>>>> >>>>> A few questions comes to mind: >>>>> >>>>> 1) Shutting down and restarting the VMs is always a lot of work, >>>>> no to mention the loss of counters, system statistics, etc ... >>>>> so, is it safe just to pause the VMs to copy the .VDIs over? >>>>> Would a paused state .VDI start ok on the standby server if I >>>>> need to fire it up? >>>>> >>>>> 2) What is the proper procedure to backup via snapshots to a >>>>> standby machine that needs to be fully independent of the primary >>>>> server? >>>>> >>>>> Any experiences or recommendations are gratefully welcomed. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> >>> Thanks for replying, Geoff! >>> >>> It made sense to me that pausing would be ok but I needed to confirm >>> this. >>> >>> One last question. >>> >>> Sounds wierd to me to set an IgnoreFlush property if pausing the >>> machine will flush the cache and complete all outstanding async IO. >>> >>> Is this setting telling the VM not to flush? >>> >>> Is this IgnoreFlush a per VM stting or general? >>> >>> Thanks again. >>> >> Here is some more information on the ignoreflush property: >> >> https://unixsherpa.com/solution/honor-guest-idesata-flush-requests/ >> >> It is based on the device and it just tells vbox to not lie to the OS >> that data is has been saved to improve performance. >> >> I also disable caching in vbox on the controller. >> >> I do all my caching in zfs where I know the data is safe. >> >> Geoff >> > Do you mean to uncheck the box "Use Host I/O cache" on each controller? > > Yes, I make sure that it is off. I actually think it is off by default because it was causing VMs to hang if it couldn't keep up with IO. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Backup suggestions
On 2017-02-08 06:11 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 12:02:24 -0800 > Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> wrote: > >> Hi Mario. >> >> I use the pause quite a bit to backup virtual machines. Pausing the >> machine will flush the cache and complete all outstanding async IO. >> >> https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-June/009810.html >> >> Look for the ignoreflush property and set that. >> >> VBoxManage setextradata "name" >> \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/LUN#[x]/Config/IgnoreFlush" >> >> As a note, I use iscsi targetsand zfs/solaris to host the data as >> zvols. >> >> Snapshots aren't 100% guaranteed. If you have applications like >> Exchangeconsider using something like VSS on Windows. For example, >> with Exchange I use VSS and then snapshot the disks from inside the >> the VM using putty/plink. Then I know I am getting a good copy of >> the data. >> >> Other applications may havereplication options. >> >> For things like SQL, I use a separate backup application to >> explicitly backup the database, just to make sure. >> >> >> Geoff >> >> >> >> On 2017-02-06 03:36 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: >>> Hi to all. >>> >>> Currently, my backup routine consists of shutting down all VMs, >>> copy all their .VDI files to the standby server, and restart the >>> VMs. >>> >>> The obvious reason is for the standby server to be ready to run the >>> VMs in case the primary server fails. >>> >>> A few questions comes to mind: >>> >>> 1) Shutting down and restarting the VMs is always a lot of work, no >>> to mention the loss of counters, system statistics, etc ... so, is >>> it safe just to pause the VMs to copy the .VDIs over? Would a >>> paused state .VDI start ok on the standby server if I need to fire >>> it up? >>> >>> 2) What is the proper procedure to backup via snapshots to a standby >>> machine that needs to be fully independent of the primary server? >>> >>> Any experiences or recommendations are gratefully welcomed. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> > Thanks for replying, Geoff! > > It made sense to me that pausing would be ok but I needed to confirm > this. > > One last question. > > Sounds wierd to me to set an IgnoreFlush property if pausing the > machine will flush the cache and complete all outstanding async IO. > > Is this setting telling the VM not to flush? > > Is this IgnoreFlush a per VM stting or general? > > Thanks again. > Here is some more information on the ignoreflush property: https://unixsherpa.com/solution/honor-guest-idesata-flush-requests/ It is based on the device and it just tells vbox to not lie to the OS that data is has been saved to improve performance. I also disable caching in vbox on the controller. I do all my caching in zfs where I know the data is safe. Geoff -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Backup suggestions
Hi Mario. I use the pause quite a bit to backup virtual machines. Pausing the machine will flush the cache and complete all outstanding async IO. https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-June/009810.html Look for the ignoreflush property and set that. VBoxManage setextradata "name" \ "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/LUN#[x]/Config/IgnoreFlush" As a note, I use iscsi targetsand zfs/solaris to host the data as zvols. Snapshots aren't 100% guaranteed. If you have applications like Exchangeconsider using something like VSS on Windows. For example, with Exchange I use VSS and then snapshot the disks from inside the the VM using putty/plink. Then I know I am getting a good copy of the data. Other applications may havereplication options. For things like SQL, I use a separate backup application to explicitly backup the database, just to make sure. Geoff On 2017-02-06 03:36 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: Hi to all. Currently, my backup routine consists of shutting down all VMs, copy all their .VDI files to the standby server, and restart the VMs. The obvious reason is for the standby server to be ready to run the VMs in case the primary server fails. A few questions comes to mind: 1) Shutting down and restarting the VMs is always a lot of work, no to mention the loss of counters, system statistics, etc ... so, is it safe just to pause the VMs to copy the .VDIs over? Would a paused state .VDI start ok on the standby server if I need to fire it up? 2) What is the proper procedure to backup via snapshots to a standby machine that needs to be fully independent of the primary server? Any experiences or recommendations are gratefully welcomed. Thanks, -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Virtualbox version comparison
On 2016-11-30 03:44 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > You can read the change logs. > IMO performance in general doesn't improve very much, except for > specific use-cases. What improves is better support for newer > operating systems (esp new Linuxes), and some nice-to-have features > like file Drag-n-Drop. > > Read "Changelog" so you will see. > > Also, Keep in mind, that official support only exists for v5.0.x and > v5.1.x code trees. > > -Alexey "Technologov" > If you have anything that is network constrained, there was a pretty significant bump in network throughput between 4.x and 5.x. Geoff -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
[VBox-users] network performance with iperf on vbox 5 --outbound is slower
Doing some testing with vbox and iperf on vbox 5. iperf Client on physical Windows --> iperf server on virtualized Windows (across a real network with 1Gbs switch). A pretty impressive: 903Mbps iperf Server on physical Windows --> iperf client on virtualized windows (across a real network with 1Gbps switch) 572 Mbps. BTW, the virtualized machine is running on Omnios, downloading files from SMB, I am pretty much hitting wire speed. Any thoughts on why outbound network traffic significantly slower than inbound? thanks, Geoff -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Paravirtualization in Windows -- how to enable
On 16-05-06 08:53 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: I think it belongs only to timer/clock (not network card), and only Windows 7+ (not XP). The good news, is that I have VirtIO network drivers for Windows (XP...7). The bad news, is that VirtIO itself in VirtualBox is not optimized and gives lower performance than Intel E1000 network emulation. (but I tested it years ago.) -Technologov 6 Май 2016 г. 18:35 пользователь "Geoff Nordli" <geo...@gnaa.net <mailto:geo...@gnaa.net>> написал: Starting to use vbox 5 for the first time and I wondering how we know if the paravirt drivers are actually being used in Windows. When I did the original install, I didn't know there was a paravirtprovider switch, so I guess it did the default, which supposedly picks the appropriate interface when starting the VM. When I switched it to paravirtprovider=hyperv and booted the guest again, it didn't prompt saying there was any hardware changes. Do I need to do anything in the Windows guest to make it work? How do I know it is working? thanks, Geoff Hi Alexey. Is it only Windows 7, or does Windows 2012 Server also work? I assume that it works on any Windows that is 7 or greater. Do you think there should be something obvious in the guest os so we know it is working? The guest seems pretty responsive. That reminds me I need to do some testing on the network performance side for vbox 5 to see what driver performs best and how it compares to vbox 4. thanks, Geoff -- Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
[VBox-users] Paravirtualization in Windows -- how to enable
Starting to use vbox 5 for the first time and I wondering how we know if the paravirt drivers are actually being used in Windows. When I did the original install, I didn't know there was a paravirtprovider switch, so I guess it did the default, which supposedly picks the appropriate interface when starting the VM. When I switched it to paravirtprovider=hyperv and booted the guest again, it didn't prompt saying there was any hardware changes. Do I need to do anything in the Windows guest to make it work? How do I know it is working? thanks, Geoff -- Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] how to use an overlay filesystem?
On 14-09-19 12:55 AM, Buday Gergely wrote: HI Gergely. Not sure if this is really the best way to go about it. Why not run the VMs from the local Windows 7 classroom machines? Geoff --- Geoff, I do want to run the virtual machines on the Windows machines. The problem lies at that students do not necessarily take seat at the same machine from class to class. So I want to serve their virtual disks from the network. - Gergely I see, that makes sense. You mentioned all of the disks are going to be the same except for some configuration changes. How are you planning on deploying these changes?Why do those changes need to be different? Are students going to snapshot the disk at any point? As Jason was pointing out, I think the solution is more around content synchronization than running stuff from the server. Maybe you use the main image as a base and then you create snapshots from that for each individual student. The base image would already be on every student computer. Therefore when they sit down you only need to copy in the snapshot portion of each student. If you do this will may want to put swap and temp on a different disks to keep change set small; discarding those changes at the end of the session. Their changes would be on their home directory. When they login, they run a script that copies all of that data from their home to the local machine. When they are finished, run the script that saves their data to the server. If you do it this way, they can also do snapshots, since all of that data would get synced to their home dir. Geoff -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] how to use an overlay filesystem?
On 14-09-19 07:46 AM, Peter Ondruška wrote: OK, if you had ZFS (Solaris, and others) you could use ZFS snapshot for this purpose. Search the Internet, Oracle definitely have whitepaper on this use and VirtualBox. On Monday, 15 September 2014, Buday Gergely gbu...@karolyrobert.hu mailto:gbu...@karolyrobert.hu wrote: Hi there, my scenario is the following: I have a classroom with two dozens of Windows 7 machines. I would like to create a read-only virtual disk that is placed on a network drive. That disk would contain a standard install of Fedora 20. Now I would like to have an overlay filesystem that is based on the virtual disk above, and, per user we would have the difference. Since I would not encourage the installation of large packages, that overlay filesystems would contain only configuration modifications mostly. I would share these diffs through Samba to have password protection. Is this doable with Virtualbox? How? Would it make acceptable speeds for running basic services like httpd and mysqld? Cheers - Gergely Peter, that is exactly how we use it, but we scale to 1000s of VMs. We use zfs snapshot/clone, expose as an iscsi lun and then use the vbox built-in iscsi initiator to remotely connect to the LUN on the SAN. VBox + ZFS + Illumos rocks!! Geoff -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] how to use an overlay filesystem?
On 14-09-15 06:44 AM, Buday Gergely wrote: Hi there, my scenario is the following: I have a classroom with two dozens of Windows 7 machines. I would like to create a read-only virtual disk that is placed on a network drive. That disk would contain a standard install of Fedora 20. Now I would like to have an overlay filesystem that is based on the virtual disk above, and, per user we would have the difference. Since I would not encourage the installation of large packages, that overlay filesystems would contain only configuration modifications mostly. I would share these diffs through Samba to have password protection. Is this doable with Virtualbox? How? Would it make acceptable speeds for running basic services like httpd and mysqld? Cheers - Gergely HI Gergely. Not sure if this is really the best way to go about it. Why not run the VMs from the local Windows 7 classroom machines? Geoff -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
[VBox-users] Does the clipboard work with vrdp?
Can anyone tell me if they have the clipboard working with a VRDP session using the Windows RDP client? thanks, Geoff -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
[VBox-users] clipboard via vrdp
Is there a trick to getting the clipboard working with vrdp? I am running 4.3.6 In the log it shows the clipboard being enabled. 00:01:03.238130 VRDP: New connection: 00:01:03.238198 VRDP: Connection opened (IPv4): 2 00:01:03.239049 VRDP: Negotiating security method with the client. 00:01:03.250794 VRDP: Methods 0x001b 00:01:03.250818 VRDP: Channel: [rdpdr] [1004]. Accepted. 00:01:03.250832 VRDP: Channel: [rdpsnd] [1005]. Accepted. 00:01:03.250845 VRDP: Channel: [cliprdr] [1006]. Accepted. 00:01:03.250867 VRDP: Channel: [drdynvc] [1007]. Accepted. 00:01:03.250880 VRDP: Unsupported SEC_TAG: 0xC006/8. Skipping. 00:01:03.250893 VRDP: Unsupported SEC_TAG: 0xC00A/8. Skipping. 00:01:03.464763 VRDP: Client seems to be MSFT. 00:01:03.464810 VRDP: Logon: (10.0.2.15) build 9600. User: [] Domain: [] Screen: 0 00:01:03.465793 AUTH: User: []. Domain: []. Authentication type: [Null] 00:01:03.465813 AUTH: Access granted. 00:01:03.470516 VRDP: Enabling upstream audio. 00:01:03.470586 VBVA: VRDP acceleration has been requested. 00:01:03.795703 VRDP: SunFlsh disabled. thanks, Geoff -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] iSCSI errors
On 14-05-20 12:12 PM, Marco Patzer wrote: On 2014–05–12 Marco wrote: I use VirtualBox to access a few iSCSI targets. Everything is working fine and the performance is acceptable. But the log file on the iSCSI server is filled with errors. The errors are reproducible using FreeBSDs istgt target and Debians iscsi_trgt which makes me assume the issue is related to VirtualBox rather than the target software. […] Why do I get those errors and how to get rid of them? I'm happy to provide further information. Any thoughts on this one? Can anybody reproduce the issue or is iSCSI working fine for everybody except me? Marco, I use iscsi with comstar (illumos) with no problems. What about the new iscsi target stack in Freebsd 10? Geoff -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] upgrade to version 4.3.4 gone wrong
On 13-12-16 12:48 PM, David Clark wrote: I did a install of the upgrade over the prior version like I had done many times before with each release and the install hung at 100% and didn't make any future progress but didn't complete. I tried to uninstall and could not find it in the program list to uninstall. And I tried to reinstall and I could not get past the hang at 100%. When I run it it now giv es this message: failed to create the virtualBox COM object callee RC:REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG (0x80040154) Any idea how to do a manual uninstall of this version so I can do a clean working install? Hi David. What OS and vbox version are you running? Geoff -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] teleporting...
On 13-11-06 01:39 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 06 November 2013 01:45:42 Fernando Cassia wrote: On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Eric S. Johansson e...@harvee.org wrote: Is there any way to create a small template/configuration file etc. to use to create the receiving VM? I'd suggest you use the export to ovf option to export the vm as an appliance, then re-import the base vm into a new vm for the target ... I havent tried it myself, but I cant imagine a reason for it not to work... also be sure that the source machine and the target machine share the VM disk image, that is, the VM on both boxes should access the disk images through some network, for example located on an NFS partition. Hi Frank. Since we don't have the synthcpu option anymore, how does that work now across systems with different chipsets/cpus types? thanks, Geoff -- November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] teleporting...
On 13-11-06 11:32 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net mailto:geo...@gnaa.net wrote: Since we don't have the synthcpu option anymore, how does that work now across systems with different chipsets/cpus types? First time I hear about this. When did this change occur and why? FC It was dropped because Windows 2008 R2 refused to boot on an unknown processor type. https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-March/009399.html -- November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] PCI passthrough
On 13-08-16 07:03 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: Hello all, since vbox has troubles with network latency we want to try pci passthrough of a network card. The docs say we need to VBoxManage modifyvm VM name --pciattach 02:00.0@01:05.0, which means attaching the pci device in question to the guest. But what about de-taching it from the host? The docs do not mention this at all. Has anybody real experience with this? Do we need to detach the device from the host or does vbox do that automagically in the background when attaching it to a guest? Hi Stephan. I am really interested,, and I am sure I am not alone, in following what you are doing with the networking performance side of things. Please keep us posted on what you find. thanks, Geoff -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] VMs are freezing...
On 13-06-05 02:54 AM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Le 04/06/13 19:31, Geoff Nordli a écrit : On 13-06-04 02:01 AM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hello all, I use VBOX 4.2.12 on Fedora 18 64 bits. Several VMs don't run anymore after a while. I find this erreor in the logs 'Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'GURU_MEDITATION'' What can I do to prevent this meditation and let my machine run ? You should post your vbox.log somewhere and provide a link so people can see it. I have had lots of problems with guru in the past, but that was on the 4.1.x series. Geoff Unfortunaly, I don't have Guru meditation, so I have NOTHING in the log. But after a while, my vms aren't pingable any more and I have to kill them... An idea ? What are you using for a network adapter? What is the Guest OS? Is the actual guest frozen or just the network? -- How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] VMs are freezing...
On 13-06-04 02:01 AM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hello all, I use VBOX 4.2.12 on Fedora 18 64 bits. Several VMs don't run anymore after a while. I find this erreor in the logs 'Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'GURU_MEDITATION'' What can I do to prevent this meditation and let my machine run ? You should post your vbox.log somewhere and provide a link so people can see it. I have had lots of problems with guru in the past, but that was on the 4.1.x series. Geoff -- How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Latency on virtio-net
On 13-05-04 02:35 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: Sorry guys, but I cannot let go this topic. Maybe it helps to understand the reason why I am very interested in a solution: Imagine you have two guests, one server of some network file system and one client for it. If the client file-stats some 10.000 files (which creates small single packets for every file) there is a big difference between having latencies around 0.100 ms and 10-100 ms (which is quite a normal value while using virtio-net). So bandwidth does not help you a lot here. If anybody has an idea what to patch on the OSE virtio-net driver feel free to make suggestions. If even the devs are not interested in this topic I'll probably end up with qemu, because this question is a real show-stopper. there is definitely something not right there. Have you tried other network drivers? How about the Intel drivers? As well, are you doing host-only or bridged network configuration? For example, I just spun up two Ubuntu 12.04 guests using the Intel 1000 MT (82540EM) driver on the host-only network with this output. --- 10.10.64.101 ping statistics --- 82 packets transmitted, 82 received, 0% packet loss, time 81110ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.294/0.921/1.562/0.176 ms Geoff -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Live migration?
On 13-04-08 04:15 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 12:07:11 +0100 Alexey Eromenko al4...@gmail.com wrote: Live migration already part of VirtualBox. (just not in GUI, available from command-line only) -- -Alexey Eromenko Technologov Thanks Alexey, great to hear. Can you point to some doc about that? I cannot find the keywords in the online end user docs... Probably named differently. http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#teleporting -- Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Live migration?
On 13-04-08 07:25 AM, jdd wrote: Le 08/04/2013 15:14, Voelker, Bernhard a écrit : Imagine you have 20 VMs on 3 identical physical machines. If a few VMs continue to need more CPU or RAM than others, you may want to move them for a better balance. yes, but configuring them is a matter of seconds... jdd If you can afford downtime, then something like teleporting doesn't really matter because you are right, you can power them down and create new ones on the new host in seconds. Another benefit is it allows you to move your VMs off a host in order to do maintenance or add new VM hosts. The main use of this is to minimize your downtime. -- Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Consistent vdi image during guest runtime?
On 13-04-07 03:00 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:32:34 -0700 Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: On 13-04-06 01:46 PM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:50:13 -0700 Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: I would say that the vbox snapshots are not the path you want to take for backups. VBox snapshots are great when experimenting with software, or creating a library using a base images. If you do a VBox snapshot online, then you also have a .sav file, and you have to wait for the save/resume to complete before it can come back online. If you can afford downtime, then I would power off the VM to get a consistent state of your data. Other people may be able to chime in here, but if you looking at using it for backups, then pausing the machine, and using LVM may be something that works, because after you take the backup, you delete the lvm snapshot. You will need to delete the backup though because LVM doesn't scale well for snapshots. In the past I used LVM and raw disks to do this. Geoff Hm, but your script does suspend/resume the vm, too. I cannot see a big difference to a vm snapshot ... ? The script uses the virsh suspend command which just pauses the VM temporarily until it is resumed, which is pretty much instant. http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-Managing_guests_with_virsh.html Whereas the vbox savestate when doing a snapshot takes a lot longer, because it writes out the active memory to a saved state file. Well, if you only suspend the guest, then take a backup from the vdi (with whatever method) you will not end up in a consistent backup. Think of a mysql database where you just suspended the guest right in between some write action. your database file has a good chance to be corrupted that way. On the other hand, if you take a snapshot of the guest and backup this chances are better you'll be able to resume the guest later on during restore, not? Yes, with LVM, I would prepare any hot applications for backup just to make sure. Note, pausing the disk will flush vbox cache: https://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-June/004207.html For my MySQL maybe something like this: http://www.lenzg.net/mylvmbackup/ where they put a read lock on all the tables, and flush the cache. For windows you want to use VSS. You can execute scripts inside a guest os using guestcontrol, or use SSH before you pause the host. I am worried less about corruption with ZFS because it writes data in transaction groups and uses a COW format so data is never overwritten. Another note, you want to make sure you disable the ignoreflush: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch12.html#idp20230944 -- Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Consistent vdi image during guest runtime?
On 13-04-06 08:36 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: Hi all, I feel a need to be more precise on the true nature of the question. My intention is not only to have a consistent vdi image, but also to have a consistent backup of the virtual guest. I talked to a friend using VM*are and how he is taking working backups. Basically he does this: 1. take a snapshot of the guest 2. Backup the snapshot and the virtual drive files 3. delete the snapshot I checked that with the vbox docs, and to me it looks like that should work out here, too. Sure you get a partially broken differential vdi image. But since you go back to the snapshot on restore where the differential image should be thrown away anyway there should be no negative effect. And the guest snapshot (machine state) does not change which means it should be no problem to backup during runtime. Am I missing something? I would say that the vbox snapshots are not the path you want to take for backups. VBox snapshots are great when experimenting with software, or creating a library using a base images. If you do a VBox snapshot online, then you also have a .sav file, and you have to wait for the save/resume to complete before it can come back online. If you can afford downtime, then I would power off the VM to get a consistent state of your data. Other people may be able to chime in here, but if you looking at using it for backups, then pausing the machine, and using LVM may be something that works, because after you take the backup, you delete the lvm snapshot. You will need to delete the backup though because LVM doesn't scale well for snapshots. In the past I used LVM and raw disks to do this. Geoff -- Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Consistent vdi image during guest runtime?
On 13-04-06 10:50 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote: On 13-04-06 08:36 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: Hi all, I feel a need to be more precise on the true nature of the question. My intention is not only to have a consistent vdi image, but also to have a consistent backup of the virtual guest. I talked to a friend using VM*are and how he is taking working backups. Basically he does this: 1. take a snapshot of the guest 2. Backup the snapshot and the virtual drive files 3. delete the snapshot I checked that with the vbox docs, and to me it looks like that should work out here, too. Sure you get a partially broken differential vdi image. But since you go back to the snapshot on restore where the differential image should be thrown away anyway there should be no negative effect. And the guest snapshot (machine state) does not change which means it should be no problem to backup during runtime. Am I missing something? I would say that the vbox snapshots are not the path you want to take for backups. VBox snapshots are great when experimenting with software, or creating a library using a base images. If you do a VBox snapshot online, then you also have a .sav file, and you have to wait for the save/resume to complete before it can come back online. If you can afford downtime, then I would power off the VM to get a consistent state of your data. Other people may be able to chime in here, but if you looking at using it for backups, then pausing the machine, and using LVM may be something that works, because after you take the backup, you delete the lvm snapshot. You will need to delete the backup though because LVM doesn't scale well for snapshots. In the past I used LVM and raw disks to do this. Geoff BTW, here is a script that I have used in the past for backing up vbox with LVM. It is pretty quick and dirty, but I am sure you can borrow some parts of it. http://pastebin.com/vDuAXmzE Geoff -- Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Consistent vdi image during guest runtime?
On 13-04-06 01:46 PM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:50:13 -0700 Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: I would say that the vbox snapshots are not the path you want to take for backups. VBox snapshots are great when experimenting with software, or creating a library using a base images. If you do a VBox snapshot online, then you also have a .sav file, and you have to wait for the save/resume to complete before it can come back online. If you can afford downtime, then I would power off the VM to get a consistent state of your data. Other people may be able to chime in here, but if you looking at using it for backups, then pausing the machine, and using LVM may be something that works, because after you take the backup, you delete the lvm snapshot. You will need to delete the backup though because LVM doesn't scale well for snapshots. In the past I used LVM and raw disks to do this. Geoff Hm, but your script does suspend/resume the vm, too. I cannot see a big difference to a vm snapshot ... ? The script uses the virsh suspend command which just pauses the VM temporarily until it is resumed, which is pretty much instant. http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-Managing_guests_with_virsh.html Whereas the vbox savestate when doing a snapshot takes a lot longer, because it writes out the active memory to a saved state file. -- Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Consistent vdi image during guest runtime?
On 13-04-05 07:02 AM, vbox-users wrote: From: Stephan von Krawczynski [mailto:sk...@ithnet.com] I use zfs (or btrfs) storage, which handles the storage snapshots. If I ever need to rollback to a point in time snapshot, the guest machine will boot up, think it's rebooting after an unexpected power loss. That is no real option under linux host. zfs is non-existent. btrfs is like roulette and cannot seriously be used in production. The OP didn't say you use linux. Switch to openindiana so you can use zfs until btrfs is more stable. I hear that btrfs is stable now - but I haven't tried it myself recently. Or you could build a new OI machine that shares NFS or iscsi to the linux guest, so the OI / ZFS machine only handles the storage. If you don't use one of these things, the answer to your question, is sorry, your only option is LVM snapshot. We are using Vbox+OI and it is working well. We are using iscsi zvols. Make sure you don't use any host caching, pause the VM, take a snapshot, and you will have a consistent image of your data. It takes a second or two to do it and doesn't cause any interruption for active applications. The OI/Illumos/SmartOS/OmniOS is a very, very slick storage+virtualization stack. My only complaint, the crossbow network driver which is available on Solaris, can't be enabled on OI. Geoff -- Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Poor networking performance
On 13-01-26 10:58 AM, Daniel L. Miller wrote: I have a Linux (Ubuntu Precise 64) host with both Windows and Linux guests. I've been noticing some poor network performance from the Linux guests - I just did a quick test. The guests are configured with bridged networking, using the paravirtualized network adapter. Guest additions are running. Pinging the host adapater on the host is an average 0.066 ms Pinging a Windows guest from the host is an average 0.380 ms Pinging a Linux guest from the host is an average 7.526 ms I get the same results from two different Linux guests, one 32-bit and one 64-bit. The 32-bit is a fresh install, so unless something is broken in the Ubuntu Precise defaults I didn't do it. Why am I getting such poor networking performance from the Linux guests? This doesn't fit the profile exactly, but it may have something to do with the tcp offloading issues. What happens if you ping an ip address not on the host from the linux guest? Like a remote gateway or something. Geoff -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Verification running on VBox
On 12-06-20 06:58 AM, jinho hwang wrote: Thanks, but I was talking about inside of virtual machine. Let's say I do not have control of hosting machine. Hi Jinho. If you don't have control of the host machine, then treat it like a normal machine and use an external monitoring tool. have a great day!! Geoff -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ___ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [VBox-users] Urgent Please: VM's Don't start!
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Matías Adés arctic...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning, I have a big issue. Today I updated my ubuntu 64 bit 10.04 to kernel 2.6.32-40- and it seems the cause of the problem. After restarting When i want to open a virtual machine it blocks on Starting virtual machine (0%) and nothing happens. Please if you have the solution for the issue i will be very pleased!! Maybe the vboxdrv didn't get setup properly. See if they are loaded properly: #/etc/init.d/vboxdrv status VirtualBox kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) are loaded. If they aren't then you can set them up again, run the command: #/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup have a great day! Geoff -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
[VBox-users] converting from KVM to Virtualbox
I have a couple of different VMs that I need to convert across from KVM to VirtualBox. The KVM vms are running the virtIO drivers. The guest OS are Windows Server 2008R2, Debian and CentOS. Any ideas on how to convert those to vbox? Are you installing the scsi driver? If so, what driver are you installing and where did you find it for Windows? My thought was to add a 2nd drive on the KVM VM with the scsi controller, then copy the VM over to vbox, and configure with scsi. Then add a 2nd disk with the SATA controller, and remove the scsi one. thanks, Geoff -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
Re: [VBox-users] iSCSI problems
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Turbo Fredriksson tu...@bayour.com wrote: I've been running VBox with VM's on iSCSI for a couple of weeks now, and have had problems with VM's being paused automatically. Today, I took some time to check a log of one of them and got this: 00:25:02.234 iSCSI: disconnect from initiator iqn.2009-08.com.sun.virtualbox.initiator:01:192.168.69.3 with source port 35951 00:25:02.234 iSCSI: connect from initiator iqn.2009-08.com.sun.virtualbox.initiator:01:192.168.69.3 with source port 35953 00:25:12.284 iSCSI: disconnect from initiator iqn.2009-08.com.sun.virtualbox.initiator:01:192.168.69.3 with source port 35953 00:25:12.285 iSCSI: login to target iqn.2012-02.com.bayour:share.VirtualMachines.Squeeze64 failed 00:25:12.285 AHCI#0: Read at offset 7994322944 (24576 bytes left) returned rc=VERR_BROKEN_PIPE 00:25:12.285 AHCI: iSCSI target unavailable 00:25:12.285 VM: Raising runtime error 'DevAHCI_ISCSIDOWN' (fFlags=0x6) 00:25:12.285 Changing the VM state from 'RUNNING' to 'SUSPENDING'. 00:25:12.285 PDMR3Suspend: 75 171 ns run time 00:25:12.285 Changing the VM state from 'SUSPENDING' to 'SUSPENDED'. 00:25:12.288 Console: VM runtime error: fatal=false, errorID=DevAHCI_ISCSIDOWN message=The iSCSI target has stopped responding. VM execution is suspended. You can resume when it is available again This keep happening with a few minutes intervals (I'm copying a lot of data inside my VM). Anyone got an idea where I should start looking? I.e., is this a iSCSI or VBox problem? What's this 'broken pipe' mentioned? Running resume directly after this happens works. For a while, until it happens again... Hi. We run lots of different iscsi guests without any of these issues. Have you tried to disable the host caching: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch12.html#idp12762752 I set the value to 0 to disable the host caching. Geoff -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
Re: [VBox-users] VBox 4.04 hosted on Windows 7, Solaris 10 VBox
-Original Message- From: Bob Wyatt [mailto:bwyatt_...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:01 PM To: 'Community mailing list of VirtualBox users' Subject: Re: [VBox-users] VBox 4.04 hosted on Windows 7, Solaris 10 VBox Thanks for the information. Alexey and Fernando... I need to run software that is not supported on OpenSolaris, but is on Solaris... Does anyone know of an Intel emulator for Sparc? I hate to tell the boss we have to buy an Oracle Sun system to do this... It is for test and development, not production, so I was hoping to be the hero here... Regards, Bob Hi Bob. I am not sure if it will work, but you can try QEMU (http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page), which is a machine emulator. Thanks, Geoff -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
Re: [VBox-users] [4.0.2 64bit]-Ubuntu(Host)/XP(Guest)-Nothing is working now?
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From: Jesse Palser
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:07 AM
On 01/19/2011 08:54 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Jesse Palserslnth...@aol.com wrote:
[4.0.2 64bit]-Ubuntu(Host)/XP(Guest)-Nothing is working now?
Hi,
Having major problems using the newest VirtualBox.
Before I upgraded to 4.0.2 64bit, everything was fine.
What u had before upgrade ? 4.0.0 or 3.2.x ?
Hi,
I upgraded from 4.0.0
Seems to be a problem with the Windows Guest Additions.
If I uninstall guest additions, the VM runs fine.
But when I install the guest addition, doing anything crashes the VM.
(Blue Screen Of Death)
Anyone have any idea how to fix this?
I am having problems with the vm additions after I upgraded to 4.0.2 as
well.The VM works ok running older 3.x series additions.
If I run a GUI on the VM, I can see it, but the display is very, very small
(something
like 20x20) and trying to expand the window doesn't work.
In headless mode, I can't connect via RDP.
In the log I see a bunch of these error messages.
00:00:31.617 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005)
aIID={09eed313-cd56-4d06-bd56-fac0f716b5dd} aComponent={Display}
aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false
00:00:31.658 ERROR [COM]: aRC=VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80bb0005)
aIID={09eed313-cd56-4d06-bd56-fac0f716b5dd} aComponent={Display}
aText={Could not take a screenshot (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED)}, preserve=false
So my guess it is something with the video driver.
Geoff
I created a new ticket for it: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8133
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