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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nio,

try installing testdrive, it is the updated version in 13.04 and provides a
GUI to both VirtualBox and virtual-manager,

Jackson did run a classroom session in 13.04 testing series and it has been
updated to work with the new VBox. Do please let us know how you get on, as
any lessons learned can be incorporated into the upcomming classroom
sessions.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom/Raring

Regards,

Phill.

On 1 June 2013 20:18, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Phill,
>
> I can use the vbox extension pack to connect to devices via USB, but I
> have not been able to *boot* from USB. I did not know of a way to to that.
>
> I have emulated boot from USB with a second virtual disk and copied my
> 'boot-n-iso-n-swap' image to it, to boot the fake-PAE and get the
> screen-shot of the grub menu.
>
> As we all know it is very easy to boot from an iso file mounted as CD/DVD.
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
> On 2013-06-01 20:57, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> > Hi Jonathan,
> >
> > please excuse my attitude in the last email (It was late and I was on my
> > 2nd bottle of wine!). With respect to using the extras package in VBox,
> > it is my understanding that the extra package is needed to access usb
> > devices in order to boot from. It is roughly the equivalent of
> > restricted-extras. If you are willing to hold the classroom session for
> > VBox that would be really helpful. I'm capable of running VBox, but as
> > you know I use virt-manager / KVM on my server for the virtual machines.
> > Please feel free to edit what were my rough notes for what to include on
> > the VBox session. We are hoping to hold the sessions in June. As a bit
> > of further background, the VBox instance in the 12.10 repos was
> > considerably out dated. Getting the more recent one then caused
> > testdrive application to fail owing to to the version level of VBox
> > being hard-coded into that application (Yup, not a really smart idea, I
> > know). Unit193 provided a fix and with the updates to it and VBox we can
> > now use both. As testing is fast moving, it was decided not to SRU the
> > fix into 12.10 but concentrate on the 13.04 and 13.10 repos. I've also
> > been made aware of another virtualisation system, but have not delved
> > too far into it yet!
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Phill.
> >
> > On 1 June 2013 14:50, Jose Lopez <josewendy1@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:josewendy1@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Jonathan, I'm very interested in learning CLI from Grub, never
> >     done it before and I,m pretty new to (advance CLI) as I would look
> >     at it. is there a link or a tut that you can point me to.
> >     Thanks
> >     Jose Lopez
> >
> >
> >     On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Jonathan Marsden
> >     <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >         On 05/31/2013 09:10 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> >
> >         > you can also utilise the abilities built into the linux kernel.
> >
> >         Those kernel parameters *are* "abilities built into the Linux
> >         kernel",
> >         aren't they? :)
> >
> >         > I know at times I seem like a fan boi of virt-manager, but it
> is a
> >         > GUI that uses the kvm abilities that are in built to the linux
> >         > kernel. I'm sure the purists will prefer using virsh exactly,
> >         but I
> >         > do ask why we need to learn so much command line stuff :)
> >
> >         (1) When your machine doesn't boot, knowing enough to play with
> >         Grub a
> >         little is something that suddenly seems well worth knowing :)
> >          Grub is
> >         command based and text-file-configured, so unless you can point
> >         me to a
> >         100% GUI-configured boot manager to use instead of Grub, I think
> >         that
> >         means learning a few keystrokes and config items, in order to
> >         understand
> >         and manage how your PC boots.
> >
> >         (2) Creating a test VM and installing a fresh Lubuntu OS into
> >         it, then
> >         booting the VM and testing, and then (if you have limited disk
> >         space)
> >         deleting the VM afterwards, takes *way* more time and effort than
> >         rebooting a PC with an existing Lubuntu installation on it and
> >         typing
> >
> >           mem=512M nosmp
> >
> >         into one line of boot info and pressing Ctrl-X.
> >
> >         I was responding to someone who said they "couldn't" test a
> >         Lubuntu in a
> >         low RAM low-CPU environment because they had a dual-core CPU and
> >         1GB...
> >         my point was and remains that they absolutely *can* do such
> >         testing on
> >         that hardware, with minimal time investment and in a way that
> leaves
> >         their PC "just like it was before" once they are done testing
> >         and reboot
> >         normally.
> >
> >         Are you *sure* "use KVM to create a VM to test in" is an
> appropriate
> >         response to a user with a Pentium D and 1 GB RAM?  I think it's
> >         possibly
> >         more appropriate for users with later CPUs and 4GB or more.
> >
> >         Finally, even *if* the Pentium D the user concerned has supports
> >         VT-x
> >         (which is needed for KVM, and the Smithfield Pentium D CPUs
> >         don't have
> >         it, only the later Presler ones do!),
> >         https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM says that KVM in Ubuntu is
> >         intended for server, not GUI workstation virtualization, for
> which
> >         Virtualbox is better suited... that info may be out of date now,
> >         but it
> >         used to be valid...
> >
> >         Jonathan
> >
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