Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:39:06 +0200 From: jdd <j...@dodin.org> Subject: Re: [VBox-users] software virtualization on older 32 bit systems To: vbox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <515f1a4a.50...@dodin.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
Le 05/04/2013 19:53, Jeffrey Malewski a ?crit : > Hello everyone, > My main interest in Virtualbox is for testing iso images without the > need to burn to disk. *why don't you open them with "mount -o loop?" #Please correct me if I'm wrong, but won't that just mount the file system and give me access to the files in the iso? > I am working from a base install of Ubuntu > Server 12.04 on an older 32 bit system. what is important is the ram. With 2Gb ram, I run easily several virtualbox sessions #I allocated 1gb in my script. Should be plenty for my testing. >Having already tried to build > a VM using qemu-kvm I've found that my system doesn't support hardware > virtualization, only slow down the result a bit #Slowing of the system in the VM isn't a concern. The iso's I'm testing are a modification of the Ubuntu debian installer incorporating Speakup. All I need to do is demonstrate that Speakup starts when the installer starts. > bash script to create my VMs from iso images. creating a vbox with vbowmanage is possible but unfriendly. If you have any X system on the host, using the gui just to crate the vm is pretty easy #I had more than a few errors while developing the script. The last was bridging the nic to the host nic. It sure would have been easier from gui. I'm saving that as last resort. If vbox-headless doesn't work out I'll probably install Gnome. and it's not necessary to have an X system on the guest this (http://www.culte.org/) web site run on a virtual machine on a host like yours #I'll keep that in mind. I greatly appreciate your help. Jeff jdd -- http://www.dodin.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
