virtualbox: do you have a working installation under porteus?

[francois]

Its been some time since I worked with virtual box. With the vbox builder, I am unable to achieve a functional installation. Is this your case?

Summary of the tips to run vbox:
Shared folders
Virtualbox Shared Folder Help

[francois]

Hum! A little rusty on my side it seems:
1) vboxadditions would not download completely as I just forgot to click ok at the appearance of dialog box
2) vbox would not run the guest within the host with an error message asking to run:
/sbin/vboxconfig
Tried:

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root@porteus:~# /sbin/vboxconfig
bash: /sbin/vboxconfig: No such file or directory
root@porteus:~# 

Found /sbin/vboxconfig in my changes directory with midnight commander find file utility under /changes/sbin/vboxconfig, and issued the command. How did it got there?? vbox would start my porteus guest.

3) I did install guest additions and shared folders between guest and host according to Virtualbox Shared Folder Help

It seems that old threads could still be good.

Ready to tackle nemesis update from ncmprhnsbl.

[francois]

Small problem here:
At bootup there is a long halt before getting into the X environment. The message is:
... entering level 4 ...
... vbox additions ...

and this even though vbox and vbox-guest are in my optional folder.

Any interpretation of this behavior would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[fulalas]

^ Probably some saved data or script is running. I also have VBox inside my optional folder and it doesn't auto load Try a clean boot.

[francois]

I am aiming a final installation for porteus or a porteus variant dual booting with debian on vbox.

Still rusty, are my vbox skills. It needs some sanding and some metal paint.

After setting up vbox and installed debian from iso live to get a grub2 installation, trying to boot I get:

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vesamenu.c32: not a COM32R image

At bootup.

Advices appreciated.

[francois]

Realising that I might induce some in the wrong direction. Porteus 4.0 boots well in vbox.

To install vbox additions which provide with fullscreen definition of the virtual machine (VM)
-download vbox addition from porteus > system > oracle vm (this is in the host)
-boot vbox with porteus cd, install porteus on the vdi vm drive
-add: devel.xzm, cripple_sources.xzm to the modules, make sure to activate them.
-get out of vm with the right Ctrl key, click on the devices tab of the vbox vm window, choose insert guest addition cd iso


Then in root mode:
-open thunar
-select /mnt/sr0 to mount the guest addition iso
-in xfce-terminal

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root@porteus:/# cd /mnt/sr0
ls
./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

reboot.

Note: maybe will be needed after reboot in cli mode:
vboxadd-service.sh
This was not my case.

[fulalas]

@francois, you don't need to install Porteus in the Vbox in order to use guest additions. Just need to boot Porteus from ISO with devel and crippled and then run Vbox builder app (from inside Vbox). It will generate a xzm module of the guest additions that you can then save (cloud, ssh or via shared folder) and now boot including this new module. Not that hard

[francois]

@fulalas:
Glad to hear from you. I hope you are doing fine.
Happy to learn that there some other way to install guest additions in vbox.
Thanks so much.