[indiana-discuss] VirtualBox-2.2.4 and OSOL-2009.06

[Chris Ridd]

On 1 Jun 2009, at 19:17, Sean Sprague wrote:

> Dick,
>
>> VirtualBox-2.2.4 and OSOL-2009.06 do not get along. I installed  
>> OSOL in
>> a virtual machine, but when I boot off the harddrive I get some
>> glitches on the console (something gpx is trying to start I guess),  
>> but
>> htat stops and I get a console login prompt. So, osol does not  
>> start to
>> gdm in VritualBox-2.2.4 Is this a known issue w/ indiana or should I
>> blame VirtualBox?
>
> I had some funny behavior with this combination, including non-boot  
> and console login only. Also had a strange realloccg: / filesystem  
> full at one point when booting the VM off the live CD. Basically I  
> have the pair working now with the VM having 896MB memory, and the  
> video card with 64MB. I did also notice that there were strange  
> pauses at various times. I can't pin reasons down for these, and  
> cannot reliably reproduce them. But eventually the combination does  
> work.

Yep, here vbox fails to start the X server reliably, at least when the  
vbox guest additions are installed.

Cheers,

Chris