How to I swap CDs when installing a guest OS using the Virtual Machine Manager?
Hi. I looked at the forums and this looks like the best place to post this problem.
I'm currently trying to learn about virtual machines in fedora 9 and I appear to have all of the required VM packages installed. I have figured out how to use the Virtual Machine Manager to create a virtual machine for a Guest OS. It would not let me connect to Xen for some reason, but it let me connect to Qemu. As an experiment, I tried to install Fedora 9 from the CDs in this new virtual machine. All went well until it asked me to insert disk 2. I did not see a way to eject the CD from the virtual machine window. I tried to manually insert disk 2, but the virtual machine would not recognize it. My questions: 1. How to I eject the CD from the virtual machine so that I can proceed with the installation of my guest OS? 2. Why can't I connect to Xen in the Virtual Machine Manager window? 3. Are there any alternative software packages that I can try if these problems can't be fixed? Thanks in advance for any help. |
Try "VirtualBox-2.0.2_36488_fedora9-1.i386.rpm" from
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads ( If it is not already installed ) There are no problems making OS installs with cd sets, except you will have to let the cd spin up before "hitting 'Enter' for next cd" Regards |
Thank you very much for the reply, but I seem to have run into a problem with the installation. My steps are listed below. It says that I need to install my kernel sources. What Fedora package do I need to install to get these files? Thanks in advance.
I did the following to try to install it as root: rpm -ivh VirtualBox-2.0.2_36488_fedora9-1.i386.rpm I got the following output: Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:VirtualBox ########################################### [100%] chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file `/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox' chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file `/usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSDL' chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file `/usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxHeadless' chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file `/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv' Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group! No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log. Compilation of the kernel module FAILED! VirtualBox will not start until this problem is fixed. Please consult /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out why the kernel module does not compile. Most probably the kernel sources are not found. Install them and execute /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup as root. The contents of /var/log/vbox-install.log: Makefile:142: *** Error: unable to find the sources of your current Linux kernel. Specify KERN_DIR=<directory> and run Make again. Stop. |
The packages I have installed are :
kernel-headers kernel-devel You can actually see some of the result from my install here http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ght=virtualbox ( # 10 ) Regards |
Thanks a lot for your help. That's exactly what I needed. :) Yum couldn't find kernel-headers, but it found kernel-devel. After I installed this, I removed/reinstalled VirtualBox successfully and successfully created a Debian virtual machine.
I noticed a couple of things about VirtualBox: 1. It appears to be a little smoother than the VM software that came with Fedora. 2. The layout reminds me of VMWare. |
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