Hello, On 09.06.19 03:52, Joel Desermeau via users wrote: > I'm thinking about purchasing a new thinkpad for my father as a gift and > virtualizing Windows 10 on Genode/NOVA (he's a Windows sysadmin). > > I've been studying the run scripts in the ports repo for vbox5 and Windows, > but I'm getting no closer to understanding them. I'm usually a RTFM type of > guy but I've really hit a wall here and I seem to be going in circles.
The vbox5*.run scripts become handy, if you have a spare test machine which is setup beforehand the right way. The first paragraphs in repos/ports/run/vbox_share.inc have some pointers about the required partition scheme on the target machine and about the required vdi files and their naming. But please consider the vbox5*.run more or less just as a test vehicle, we just use to see that the zoo of VMs running fine every night. If you rather plan to use WinX interactively, as for your father, I would rather advice to use Sculpt CE and use ontop your Windows VM. In principle you just have to provide the right VM configuration. If you look into <disk>/vm/debian on your Sculpt booted system you will find a machine.vdi and machine.vbox. Without having tested it actually, a short instruction guide looks like that: - create a copy in <disk>/vm/winX. Place your installation iso in this folder. - make a copy of config/launcher/vm_fs, maybe config/launcher/vm_win_fs and adjust the folder to '/vm/winX' Now you can configure your VM the normal way [0], just use as File_system your new vm_win_fs instance during configuration. Hope it helps, Alex. [0] https://genodians.org/m-stein/2019-03-07-vm-with-sculpt-ce-preview > > What should I name the .iso, where should I put it, and what run script > should I use? > > Thank you, > Joel Desermeau > > > _______________________________________________ > Genode users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users > -- Alexander Boettcher Genode Labs https://www.genode-labs.com - https://www.genode.org Genode Labs GmbH - Amtsgericht Dresden - HRB 28424 - Sitz Dresden Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth _______________________________________________ Genode users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.genode.org/listinfo/users
