Virtual machine installation issue.

[Joel Sherrill]

On 05/07/2010 06:48 AM, Alin Rus wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Joel Sherrill<joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 05/06/2010 09:21 PM, Kim George wrote:
>>      
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm having some trouble installing the Fedora virtual machine through
>>> Virtualbox on my Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) system.
>>>
>>> When I try to boot the virtual machine the system freezes on the cursor.
>>>
>>> I've never used Virtualbox before so I may have done something wrong. I
>>> created a new fedora linux machine and then when selecting the boot hard
>>> disk I've selected the use existing hard disk option and pointed to the
>>>   c++.vmdk file which I downloaded via torrent.
>>>
>>> Has anyone experienced something similar that can suggest a workaround?
>>>
>>>        
>> I created the image on Windows using whatever what the
>> current VirtualBox version at the time.  I was using 3.1.4 but
>> after hearing complaints (from you?) on irc yesterday that it
>> didn't work in 3.1.6, I upgraded.  It did not restore the
>> state and I had to reset the virtual machine.
>>
>> After the virtual machine rebooted, it was fine.
>>
>> I know some people tried it on Ubuntu and ran into some issue
>> but I think they resolved it.  Maybe one of them will speak up.
>>
>> --joel
>>      
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Kim George
>>> Mechanical Engineer
>>> Montreal Canada
>>>        
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> I tried the image on Ubuntu (10.04), didn't work for me. I used the
> virtualbox-ose package from the repo and the virtualbox package from
> sun's repo.
>
>    
Did we confirm the md5sum on the image was the same?

Did you configure it to use Intel NIC?

I know we bounced back and forth a lot but I don't remember
what all we tried.
> The solution was to download a fedora image for vmware player from
> thoughtpolice or install fedora on your hard drive.
>
> Cheers
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