Re: [SOLVED] Re: Virtual machine - booting from USB?

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 18:30, Hans a écrit : [...] Well, now as I know, that qemu is working, I will check if I can use also the commandline with qemu. Should be possible! [...] That, too, is explained in the link I indicated previously, ("3. Boot From the Command Line"): https://www.baeldung.com/linu

[SOLVED] Re: Virtual machine - booting from USB?

2024-08-21 Thread Hans
> yes > https://www.baeldung.com/linux/qemu-boot-physical-drive > (minimal answer ;-) ) Hi Didier, thanks for the quick response! This is working perfectly. However, fanca thing is: virtual-manager is working great, but Aqumu got not this option. Obviously both are based on qemu. Well, now as

Re: Virtual machine - booting from USB?

2024-08-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/08/2024 à 13:27, Hans a écrit : [...] does one know, if it is possible to boot from an USB-stick within a virtual machine? [...] Short answer like "yes, it wqill wor with" or "no, this is not possible..." will be fine for me. [...] yes https://www.baeldung

Virtual machine - booting from USB?

2024-08-21 Thread Hans
Hi folks, does one know, if it is possible to boot from an USB-stick within a virtual machine? I want to boot a multiboot usb stick with YUMI within a virtual machine. Tried Virtualbox (here you can only make a *.vdk from the USB-stick and boot it), as well as virtual-manager (seem also only

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-25 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Friday 24 February 2023 10:03:31 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > On 25/02/2023 00:55, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > >> On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > >>> So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal tha

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/02/2023 00:55, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote: On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails,

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 22 February 2023 09:24:17 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote: > >> echo "$DISPLAY" > > > > So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's > > running inside of

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-22 Thread Max Nikulin
On 19/02/2023 01:01, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote: echo "$DISPLAY" So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails, it comes back with: :0 Have

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-22 Thread Albert S.
: Running “xrandr --size 800x600” on a virtual machine affected both monitors on my workstation. That was completely unexpected and I am wondering how to explain that. Below you will find the detailed description. [ … ] But my real concern is how a xrandr command issued on a VM which is

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-18 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Saturday 18 February 2023 12:17:20 am Max Nikulin wrote: > echo "$DISPLAY" So this got me curious, and I tried it out. In the terminal that's running inside of the virtualbox instance where I'm doing emails, it comes back with: :0 But in a terminal which is running on the host Debian syst

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/02/2023 08:57, Albert S. wrote: If you think I issued the xrandr command on the wrong machine, that was not the case: history makes it clear. Behavior depends on the DISPLAY environment value at the moment when xrandr was executed. Likely it was pointed not to vnc Xserver, but to the

Re: Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Fri 17 Feb 2023 at 20:57:38 (-0500), Albert S. wrote: > Running “xrandr --size 800x600” on a virtual machine affected both > monitors on my workstation. That was completely unexpected and I am > wondering how to explain that. > > Below you will find the detailed description.

Virtual machine affects client screen resolution

2023-02-17 Thread Albert S.
Running “xrandr --size 800x600” on a virtual machine affected both monitors on my workstation. That was completely unexpected and I am wondering how to explain that. Below you will find the detailed description. I run KVM on a Debian 11 server, which has no monitor or keyboard attached to it

Re: loging into virtual machine

2022-08-17 Thread David Christensen
D ISO file. What is the URL of the page that contained the download? What is the name of the ISO file you downloaded? I created virtual machine for the FreeBSD. When I start it it boots to a login prompt. This is how I created a FreeBSD VM on May 18, 2020, using VirtualBox on Deb

Re: loging into virtual machine

2022-08-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Haines Brown wrote: > I've installed virutalBox and downloaded a FreeBSD ISO file. I > created virtual machine for the FreeBSD. When I start it it boots to a > login prompt. > > My impression is that since the Virtual Machine boots an ISO it > has not been configured

loging into virtual machine

2022-08-17 Thread Haines Brown
I've installed virutalBox and downloaded a FreeBSD ISO file. I created virtual machine for the FreeBSD. When I start it it boots to a login prompt. My impression is that since the Virtual Machine boots an ISO it has not been configured with a user account and password. How then can I l

Re: Help - How to paste from host (Debian) to Virtual machine (Win10)

2020-09-08 Thread Dennis Wicks
Kushal Kumaran wrote on 9/7/20 7:31 PM: Dennis Wicks writes: Greetings! Is there any way that I can copy and paste from Deb host to VM Win10 and vice versa? Assuming you are using qemu-kvm to run your VM, the search keyword would be SPICE. You need to have the appropriate devices attached

Re: Help - How to paste from host (Debian) to Virtual machine (Win10)

2020-09-07 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Dennis Wicks writes: > Greetings! > > Is there any way that I can copy and paste from Deb host to VM Win10 > and vice versa? > Assuming you are using qemu-kvm to run your VM, the search keyword would be SPICE. You need to have the appropriate devices attached to the VM (a spice channel at the m

Help - How to paste from host (Debian) to Virtual machine (Win10)

2020-09-07 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings! Is there any way that I can copy and paste from Deb host to VM Win10 and vice versa? Many TIA! Dennis

Re: Need help -- Virtual Machine Manager

2020-09-05 Thread Fabien Roucaute
Le 05/09/2020 à 19:27, Dennis Wicks a écrit : > Yes, everything is in the same box/host. I need to know how to mount a > physical CD! > TNX! > You go in the menu View-> details-> CD-ROM, and then you select the physical drive in the list (usually /dev/sr0)

Re: Need help -- Virtual Machine Manager

2020-09-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
Fabien Roucaute wrote on 9/5/20 1:40 AM: Le 05/09/2020 à 01:57, Dennis Wicks a écrit : I'm running Win10 with Virtual Machine Manager on Deb 10.4. How to I attach my CD drive to Win10 so I can install some software? Many TIA! Dennis Either the ISO or the CD-ROM need to be on the hos

Re: Need help -- Virtual Machine Manager

2020-09-04 Thread Fabien Roucaute
Le 05/09/2020 à 01:57, Dennis Wicks a écrit : > I'm running Win10 with Virtual Machine Manager on Deb 10.4. How to I > attach my CD drive to Win10 so I can install some software? > > Many TIA! > Dennis > Either the ISO or the CD-ROM need to be on the host. If KVM/lib

Need help -- Virtual Machine Manager

2020-09-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
I'm running Win10 with Virtual Machine Manager on Deb 10.4. How to I attach my CD drive to Win10 so I can install some software? Many TIA! Dennis

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

2020-06-27 Thread manish tripathi
Thank you Nate. That is quite informative. In my case there is no need to share files over a network, though some data may be required to be stored in the local machine. Trips On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 6:27 PM Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2020 27 Jun 05:48 -0500, manish tripathi wrote: > > Thank y

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

2020-06-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 27 Jun 05:48 -0500, manish tripathi wrote: > Thank you for the responses. I was looking for a general purpose > solution...I can safely assume that VM soln may mostly work, while the same > may not be guaranteed with use of WINE. IME, Qemu has various issues with Windows guests, such thi

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

2020-06-27 Thread manish tripathi
Thank you for the responses. I was looking for a general purpose solution...I can safely assume that VM soln may mostly work, while the same may not be guaranteed with use of WINE. Can one also explain about the malware that may impact my Linux/Buster, in case I use a VM for running my Windows app

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

2020-06-27 Thread l0f4r0
27 juin 2020 à 11:55 de l0f...@tuta.io: > You won't have any guarantee of success because it depends on a lot of > factors and on your expectations/tolerance about your experience. > Of course I was speaking about Wine here ;) I don't think you could possibly have any issue on a VM as most (all

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

2020-06-27 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 27 juin 2020 à 10:58 de manishtr...@gmail.com: > Can someone advise if a VM is a better option than using WINE, to run a > application built on Windows OS on Debian/Buster. Open to other suggestions > as well.  > Nate's already given the gist but I think you should clarify whether your que

Re: WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

2020-06-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 27 Jun 03:59 -0500, manish tripathi wrote: > Can someone advise if a VM is a better option than using WINE, to run a > application built on Windows OS on Debian/Buster. Open to other suggestions > as well. My experience is that it depends on the application and what Windows calls it make

WINE vs Virtual Machine for Windows app on Buster

2020-06-27 Thread manish tripathi
Can someone advise if a VM is a better option than using WINE, to run a application built on Windows OS on Debian/Buster. Open to other suggestions as well. Thanks Trips

[Resolved] Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
Well, I think this is resolved and it turns out to be self-inflicted. Yesterday I did a clean Stretch installation in a Qemu VM and did the minimum to get it up so I could do an sshfs mount from it and it too would disconnect the mount after five minutes or so. On a whim I copied it to my laptop

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
Here is where I am at now. Inspired by em's posts I went back and looked back at the Arch Wiki and decided to start from basics and try getting the mount working from /etc/fstab and that succeeded. Doing so led me to read the systemd.automount(5) and systemd.mount(5) pages a bit more carefully ag

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 24 Apr 11:06 -0500, emetib wrote: > nate, > > my instructions are for system wide for kvm(qemu) not vbox. Right, that is what I am working on too. > when i look at your config file that you posted there is > "ServerAliveCountMax=5". i've had looked at all the man files that i > can thi

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-24 Thread emetib
nate, my instructions are for system wide for kvm(qemu) not vbox. when i look at your config file that you posted there is "ServerAliveCountMax=5". i've had looked at all the man files that i can think of and can't find anything like that. don't know if it's a vbox command or what. yet it se

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 apr 20, 19:56:15, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > So I tried the next set of commands: > > $ sudo systemctl start home-nate-share.mount > [sudo] password for nate: > Failed to start home-nate-share.mount: Unit home-nate-share.mount not found. This looks for units in /etc/systemd/system, but

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-23 Thread emetib
nate, to your question. no. i have a couple of different logins to my vms for some reason that's why i have $USER in the bottom of my first reply, so bear with me. what i did was to mkdir $whatever on the host machine. and then on the vm's i made the same dir $whatever, on the vm i then put t

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
I guess I can't make this work as a user. Here is the status: $ systemctl --user status home-nate-share.mount ● home-nate-share.mount - Mount vbox-shr with sshfs Loaded: loaded (/home/nate/.config/systemd/user/home-nate-share.mount; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result:

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-23 Thread emetib
nate, i did not log in as root. just used root to call $USER@hostname thought that i would make that clear. take care, good luck em

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 23 Apr 18:27 -0500, emetib wrote: > hello nate. > > i had a problem with setting this up in the first place and now it's > working great for me. i have 4 vm's, debian: stable, testing, centos > and opensuse. i think that suse was the worst to get it going. Thanks so much, em. If I re

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-23 Thread emetib
hello nate. i had a problem with setting this up in the first place and now it's working great for me. i have 4 vm's, debian: stable, testing, centos and opensuse. i think that suse was the worst to get it going. here is mine from testing(bullseye/sid) [Unit] Description=sshfs_mount share #Re

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 23 Apr 01:24 -0500, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Maybe you need to 'enable-linger' with loginctl. Looking through the command history in that VM, I did try that. A couple of times. I made sure enable-linger is enabled for my user and the mount is still dumped after five minutes or so. -

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 apr 20, 18:42:05, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > This started after I attempted to use systemd to create the mount first > as a system service and then I scrapped that and chose to create the > mount as a user service. That is when I ran into the five minute > timeout. Even after disabling a

Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
I've on-again/off-again approached a project to move away from VirtualBox for some daily software builds to a VM run from Qemu. The issue I am having is maintaining a persistent sshfs mount from inside of the guest. This particular VM will mount the shared directories via sshfs at system start bu

Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?)

2018-12-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 06:50:49PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Hey, that's not fair -- you answered my question before I even asked it! ;-) > But I included my findings below > It is totally fair, as it was part of your original problem statement: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018

Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?)

2018-12-07 Thread rhkramer
Hey, that's not fair -- you answered my question before I even asked it! ;-) But I included my findings below On Friday, December 07, 2018 02:32:13 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:47:44PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Thursday, December 06, 2018 10:42:48 PM Ro

Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?)

2018-12-07 Thread tomas
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:47:44PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, December 06, 2018 10:42:48 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > As far as what you do next, it should be sufficient to have him swap > > '-lstdc++' for '-static-libstdc++' and then rebuild. That should get > > you a wor

Re: Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?)

2018-12-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:47:44PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, December 06, 2018 10:42:48 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > As far as what you do next, it should be sufficient to have him swap > > '-lstdc++' for '-static-libstdc++' and then rebuild. That should get > > you a wor

Progress (was: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?)

2018-12-07 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, December 06, 2018 10:42:48 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > As far as what you do next, it should be sufficient to have him swap > '-lstdc++' for '-static-libstdc++' and then rebuild. That should get > you a working binary. Thanks! The programmer did what you suggested and that binary

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 07:12:29AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > > Or, your developer should deliver only portable source to you, and > you compile that yourself. > Which he already said was not a workable solution, as he needs to run on jessie and/or wheezy while the code in question requires a new

OT(?) question {Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?}

2018-12-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/06/2018 09:42 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [snip] In my experience, the weakest area for nearly every programmer I meet is build systems. Interestingly enough, I lectured in class today and build systems and their importance. This is a case where understanding some of the "extras" that

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-07 Thread Joe
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 22:37:51 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Of course, looking at what you did, maybe I should get the source of > his changes and then try compiling it myself (in a sid chroot). If you're on sid, you may need to be a little more careful, particularly with kernels. Years ago

Re: Fwd: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-07 Thread deloptes
Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I have always found virtualbox surprisingly easy to set up and use — a lot > of things that as a noob I expected to be hard just weren’t. There’s a > good visual setup screen for creating new VMs and the documentation is > quite good as I recall. > The headless feature

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:37:51PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > just for the record, the programmer did fine -- he modified the > program and got it working on his Ubuntu system, and created a > binary for me. The problem now is to get the binary to work on my > Wheezy or Jessie system.

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:37:51PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I'll probably try some of this starting tomorrow afternoon, but, just for the > record, the programmer did fine -- he modified the program and got it working > on > his Ubuntu system, and created a binary for me. The probl

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, December 06, 2018 10:11:44 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 08:01:31PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Thursday, December 06, 2018 12:59:19 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:11:56AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Backg

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 08:01:31PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, December 06, 2018 12:59:19 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:11:56AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Background: > > > > > > I'm involved with having some software written and then t

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, December 06, 2018 12:59:19 PM Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 11:11:56AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Background: > > > > I'm involved with having some software written and then testing it. > > > > The software won't run on either my Wheezy or Jessie syste

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, December 06, 2018 12:39:22 PM Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:12 AM wrote: > > Background: > > > > I'm involved with having some software written and then testing it. > > > > The software won't run on either my Wheezy or Jessie systems -- it > > appears to be an outda

Fwd: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
Darn it, forgot to monkey with the headers when replying from gmail... please see intended list reply below. -- Forwarded message - From: Mark Fletcher Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:19 Subject: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? To: On Fri

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread deloptes
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > What would you recommend for the software to run a VM under Jessie (that > would probably run Ubuntu), and can you recommend a fairly simple set of > instructions to first set up the VM, and then at least begin the install > process to that VM. Recently I am using head

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
> > I suppose I could as some more questions related to that, but, for now, the > next suggestion (aside from upgrading one of my machines to stretch (or > whatever the current stable is) is to do something like create a virtual > machine and install Ubuntu on it (because t

Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 10:12 AM wrote: > > Background: > > I'm involved with having some software written and then testing it. > > The software won't run on either my Wheezy or Jessie systems -- it appears to > be an outdated libstdc++ that is the problem. Before I go the VM route, I would try in

Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread rhkramer
, for now, the next suggestion (aside from upgrading one of my machines to stretch (or whatever the current stable is) is to do something like create a virtual machine and install Ubuntu on it (because the programmer also uses Ubuntu and it works there for him) -- I suppose I might also (eventu

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Reco wrote: > $ qemu-system-mips -m 2048 -nographic > -cdrom /tmp/debian-7.4.0-mips-netinst.iso -boot d > qemu-system-mips: Could not load MIPS bios 'mips_bios.bin', and no -kernel > argument was specified Oops. I did not expect it to die so early. > Also, that 'iso' is no way a conventiona

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:58:13PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > Shouldn't there be a bootloader installed in debian_mips32b.img ? > > Reco wrote: > > No. One of the oddities of QEMU's malta that nobody was able to > > write a > > working bootloader for it. OP i

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Reco
Hi. In-Reply-To: <3824776101913512...@scdbackup.webframe.org> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:58:13PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > Shouldn't there be a bootloader installed in debian_mips32b.img ? > > Reco wrote: > > No. One of the oddities of QEMU's malta that nobod

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Shouldn't there be a bootloader installed in debian_mips32b.img ? Reco wrote: > No. One of the oddities of QEMU's malta that nobody was able to write a > working bootloader for it. OP is doing it the only way that's possible. And he has luck to already have found somebody who ha

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Alan Tu
Thanks Reco. The concept I missed is, I need to grab the initrd and kernel from the installed system, specifically from the /boot directory. I know that now for all future architectures I mess with! There are lots of ways to do the same thing, I'm just sharing. To mount a partition inside raw disk

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 06:30:32PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > # qemu-system-mips -m 2048 -rtc base=localtime -boot order=c > > -nographic -hda debian_mips32b.img -kernel vmlinux-4.9.0-6-4kc-malta > > -append "root=/dev/sda1" > > Shouldn't there be a bootloader installed in debia

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 07:54:56AM -0700, Alan Tu wrote: > Hi, I'm having trouble bootting Debian 9.4 on a QEMU-emulated MIPS > malta virtual machine. I know QEMU introduces some complexity, but I > think my problem is more of a misunderstanding of Linux boot concepts

Re: can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Alan Tu wrote: > I installed Debian inside a virtual disk image. >From outside qemu ? That could be tricky because being unusual. Last time i installed a virtual Debian, i did something like this: # Create virtual disk as data file qemu-img create debian_vm_disk.qemu 32G # Start qem

can't boot a Debian on QEMU-mips virtual machine, could be initrd or root device problems

2018-04-30 Thread Alan Tu
Hi, I'm having trouble bootting Debian 9.4 on a QEMU-emulated MIPS malta virtual machine. I know QEMU introduces some complexity, but I think my problem is more of a misunderstanding of Linux boot concepts. I've tried different permutations, and reading, but am stuck. I installed Debia

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives (Solved)

2017-08-20 Thread Gary Roach
9 (Stretch) system KDE Desktop MSI970A-G43 motherboard AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into problems with both virtualbox and kvm/qemu packages. I have a very messy project (Elmer fem) and want things completely walled off from

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/18/17 4:08 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > I really appreciate all of you quick responses. > > For some unknown reason, when I searched the  Debian database virt came up > empty. This time it didn't. So, at this point, its go RTFM. > > The manual will probably clear it up but When trying to run virt-m

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 18-08-17, Gary Roach wrote: > I really appreciate all of you quick responses. > > For some unknown reason, when I searched the Debian database virt came up > empty. This time it didn't. So, at this point, its go RTFM. > > The manual will probably clear it up but When trying to run virt-manage

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Gary Roach
I really appreciate all of you quick responses. For some unknown reason, when I searched the Debian database virt came up empty. This time it didn't. So, at this point, its go RTFM. The manual will probably clear it up but When trying to run virt-manager, I did get the following error: una

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-18 Thread Dejan Jocic
libvirt do not care about your hard drives, it cares about storages and storage volumes. Default storage volume is at /var/lib/libvirt/images. But I guess that you do not want your image there, most people do not. Creating image with virt-manager is as easy as following 5 steps, after you launch it,

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/17/17, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: >> >> Most debian installs work easily with a 20 or 20 GB virtual drive. You >> create >> the file necessary with a command like this: >> >> qemu-img create -f qcow2 /home/img/Mymachine/drive.img 30G >> >> This assumes that

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Richard Hector
On 18/08/17 13:12, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: >> Looks like the packages >> to get you started are libvirt-daemon-system and virt-manager. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> ...bob >> >> >> > Sorry bob but the debian 9 archives doesn't include libvirtd or > anything equ

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Phil Wyett
On Thu, 2017-08-17 at 18:12 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: > > On 8/17/17 1:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > > Usually the qemu vm runs from a file (created by qemu-img) set up as a disk > > drive by qemu.  I use Virtual Machine Manager (along

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/17/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Weber wrote: On 8/17/17 1:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Usually the qemu vm runs from a file (created by qemu-img) set up as a disk drive by qemu. I use Virtual Machine Manager (along with libvirtd) which can do all the hard stuff for you. I usually make my own

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
wrote: > Hi all, > > Debian 9 (Stretch) system > KDE Desktop > MSI970A-G43 motherboard > AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked > > Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into > problems with both virtualbox and kvm/qemu packages. I have a very mess

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Bob Weber
On 8/17/17 1:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > Debian 9 (Stretch) system > KDE Desktop > MSI970A-G43 motherboard > AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked > > Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into problems > with both virtualbox and kvm/q

Re: kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 17-08-17, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all, > > Debian 9 (Stretch) system > KDE Desktop > MSI970A-G43 motherboard > AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked > > Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into problems > with both virtualbox and kvm/q

kvm/qemu virtual machine can't find hard drives

2017-08-17 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, Debian 9 (Stretch) system KDE Desktop MSI970A-G43 motherboard AMD FX 4350 processor - not overclocked Ive been trying to get a virtual machine set up and have run into problems with both virtualbox and kvm/qemu packages. I have a very messy project (Elmer fem) and want things

Re: TTL expired in transit to qemu virtual machine.

2017-03-24 Thread Mimiko
On 23.03.2017 14:14, Greg Wooledge wrote: Run "uname -a" (and also "uptime") and post the results. You a right. I didn't do a restart after last kernel update. After a restart, TTL problem didn't occur anymore. Also I've noted that the particular vm had INPUT default policy to DROP and no ic

Re: TTL expired in transit to qemu virtual machine.

2017-03-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 08:36:38AM +0200, Mimiko wrote: > Well, doing regulat apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, I fought that kernel > is also upgraded. I've seen this several times. How comes it wasn't updated > to 3.2.86-1. Run "uname -a" (and also "uptime") and post the results. After a ker

Re: TTL expired in transit to qemu virtual machine.

2017-03-22 Thread Mimiko
On 21.03.2017 02:25, david...@freevolt.org wrote: It is not clear to me whether your question I regularly do apt-get upgrade, but not to next Debian version. So, how this kernel be old for Debian 7? is a request for information, or merely rhetorical (ie, an assertion that your kernel is in f

Re: TTL expired in transit to qemu virtual machine.

2017-03-20 Thread davidson
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Mimiko wrote: On 18.03.2017 07:22, Igor Cicimov wrote: >uname -a Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.84-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux That's an really old kernel, I don't start anything virtual these days without at least 3.13.x kernel. I regularly do apt-get upgrade, but

Re: TTL expired in transit to qemu virtual machine.

2017-03-19 Thread Mimiko
On 18.03.2017 07:22, Igor Cicimov wrote: >uname -a Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.84-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux That's an really old kernel, I don't start anything virtual these days without at least 3.13.x kernel. I regularly do apt-get upgrade, but not to next Debian version. So, how

Re: TTL expired in transit to qemu virtual machine.

2017-03-19 Thread Mimiko
On 17.03.2017 13:21, Dominik George wrote: iptables -L FORWARD -nv Chain FORWARD (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination XX ACCEPT all -- br0br0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 What is that supposed to do? Forwarding on the IP

Re: TTL expired in transit to qemu virtual machine.

2017-03-17 Thread Igor Cicimov
prot opt in out source > destination > XX ACCEPT all -- br0br0 0.0.0.0/0 > 0.0.0.0/0 > > Most virtuals does not have networking problems, but some times they can't > be reached. For now only one virtual machines have this problem: > From

Re: TTL expired in transit to qemu virtual machine.

2017-03-17 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > >iptables -L FORWARD -nv >Chain FORWARD (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes) >pkts bytes target prot opt in out source >destination >XX ACCEPT all -- br0br0 0.0.0.0/0 >0.0.0.0/0 What is that supposed to do? Forwarding on the IP layer,

TTL expired in transit to qemu virtual machine.

2017-03-17 Thread Mimiko
prot opt in out source destination XX ACCEPT all -- br0br0 0.0.0.0/00.0.0.0/0 Most virtuals does not have networking problems, but some times they can't be reached. For now only one virtual machines have this problem: From windows mac

Re: Components non-free and contrib are not enabled after installing to virtualbox virtual machine.

2016-02-21 Thread Adam Wilson
d > non-free. > > Installing to a virtualbox virtual machine only enables the main > component, not contrib nor non-free. > > Why is that? > > Is it intended behaviour? If so, what is the reasoning behind it? > > Is it a bug? > > I did some debugging and the prob

Re: Components non-free and contrib are not enabled after installing to virtualbox virtual machine.

2016-02-21 Thread Tixy
and non-free. > > Installing to a virtualbox virtual machine only enables the main component, > not contrib nor non-free. > > Why is that? > > Is it intended behaviour? If so, what is the reasoning behind it? > > Is it a bug? If contrib and non-free are enabled by default in off

Re: Components non-free and contrib are not enabled after installing to virtualbox virtual machine.

2016-02-20 Thread Anders Andersson
ng to a virtualbox virtual machine only enables the main component, > not contrib nor non-free. > > Why is that? Maybe your hardware requires (or can benefit from) non-free drivers, while the virtual machine can only emulate hardware with free drivers and firmware.

Components non-free and contrib are not enabled after installing to virtualbox virtual machine.

2016-02-20 Thread jds1307
I downloaded and installed the latest Debian CD image (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-CD-1.iso) Installing to bare metal enables the components main contrib and non-free. Installing to a virtualbox virtual machine only enables the main component, not

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

2015-12-12 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 09/11/15 22:01, Alan Chandler wrote: [cut] > Up until last April, I ran Windows 7 under virtual Box on my Debian > machine for my daily work almost every day for about 2 years. I > have cut down now to one day a week, and generally do that on a > Macbook Air, also running Virtual Box. It wor

Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

2015-11-10 Thread Stuart Longland
On 10/11/15 04:58, D&P Dimov wrote: > I need to install MS Windows 7 as a Virtual Machine on a computer that > is running Debian 8. To do that, I'd like to use software that is not > proprietory (I know, I know - this may sounds a bit ridiculous...). This > Debian page: ht

  1   2   3   >