From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Pribyl Subject: Re: using guix in virtualbox Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:54:23 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <54D99226.50801@videotron.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58591) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLAKi-0005Vh-Ro for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:54:29 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLAKd-0000wR-Sn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:54:28 -0500 Received: from sandbox.cz ([87.236.197.188]:45566 helo=mx.sandbox.cz) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YLAKd-0000wF-Mk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:54:23 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sandbox.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2DE38166 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:54:23 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <54D99226.50801@videotron.ca> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, westlake wrote: > Hi, I've noticed that people have been using virtualbox with guix, but over > here with 0.8.1 (64-linux), i'm noticing a bootup issue upon post-install > > The setup is informative enough from the guix install page, on top of which I > create two empty .vdi disks, and can use qemu-nbd to transfer the raw image > of the usb-install. > > It's actually pretty easy to set this up, and it took under 20 minutes. > However after rebooting and then "unplugging" the installer drive from > Virtualbox. The grub boot menu shows up, it appears the init starts but soon > there is a freezing issue. > > Not sure what to do from this point, I understand more details would be > needed to see why this is happening so I added an attachment. > > thanks This is how I did it with 0.8 convertfromraw gnu-usb-install-version-linux-i686 gnu.vdi --format vdi Attach it as a new SATA storage to new VB machine, enable PAE in System/Processor tab, otherwise it may crash. Add another disk image to install to and after a boot continue with install. Adam Pribyl