Re: VM Ware Player under Debian Lenny AMD64 on laptop
C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Fri 24 July 2009 04:34:05 pm James Brown wrote:
>
>> C M Reinehr wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri 24 July 2009 02:45:31 pm James Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> C M Reinehr wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri 24 July 2009 12:45:18 pm James Brown wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:10:49PM +0400, James Brown wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I intend to install on my laptop under Debian Lenny AMD 64 the VM
>>>>>>>> Ware Player 2.5.2 from
>>>>>>>> http://www.vmware.com/download/player/download.html (becouse there
>>>>>>>> is no VMWare Player in the official repositories of the Debian).
>>>>>>>> Which of the packege do I need - rpm or bundle? How do install it on
>>>>>>>> Debian? And what of libraries and etc. do I need install for
>>>>>>>> succesfull using VMWare Player?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You do not want the rpm.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't like the current bundles either. I keep nagging vmware to
>>>>>>> provide the tar files that worked with make-vmpkg again, but they are
>>>>>>> too clueless to understand why real admins won't run GUI installer
>>>>>>> crap in X as root on their systems rather than something the package
>>>>>>> manager can deal with.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fortunately we now have kvm (on machines with virtualization hardware
>>>>>>> support) which is in my opinion much better than vmware, free, open
>>>>>>> source, and maintained and part of stock kernels. I have no need for
>>>>>>> vmware anymore.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could the kvm boot the Windows from physical disk? (I want to make the
>>>>>> virtual machine boot my old Windows from my laptop becouse some
>>>>>> programes from my working space don't want to run under Linux).
>>>>>> Earlier I tried the Virtualbox but it cannot do it and the Virtualbox
>>>>>> from the Debian's repositories don't maintain USB.
>>>>>>
>>>>> James,
>>>>>
>>>>> Download VirtualBox from the Sun repository, rather than the Debian
>>>>> repository. You'll get a more current version and USB will work:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
>>>>>
>>>>> There are some features of VB that are not available in the open source
>>>>> edition (ose) available from a Debian repository which are available in
>>>>> the version from Sun.
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH
>>>>>
>>>>> cmr
>>>>>
>>>> I did this installation but now I have something strange: when I gave
>>>> command "virtualbox" the bash answered me that this command didn't
>>>> found.
>>>>
>>> The binary is VirtualBox (/usr/bin/VirtualBox) -- mind the
>>> capitalization.
>>>
>>> cmr
>>>
>> Very thanks. It is enough write VirtualBox in the terminal (but when I
>> used virtualvox-ose I wrote virtualbox, not VirtualBox).
>> Now I have a very strange problem: after booting the Windows under my
>> new VirtualBox my system (either Windows under VirtualBox or Debian on
>> my phisical machine, I cannot use Ctl-Alt-Del, Ctl-Alt-Shift, Ctl-Alt-Fn
>> and I cannot do any more than to press poweroff button on my laptop.
>> In the 3rd time after booting Windows under VirtualBox my system (on
>> physical machine) was crash, power was off without any my doing and my
>> phisical machine rebooted.
>> Now I am afraid maybe it was a virus of the BIOS I cached through
>> VirtualBox?
>> Or maybe it is simply becouse I boot my Windows from vmi-disk created on
>> my old virtualbox-ose 1.6?
>> But if is the last why so strange and awful behavior of my computer?!
>>
>
> OK, James, please take a deep breath and start over. Are you saying that the
> Ctl-Alt-whatever key sequences do not work in your virtual Windows
> environment or that they do not work in your Debian host system? If you are
> having problems within the virtual Windows environment, have you read the
> user manual chapter on Typing Special Characters (3.4.1.2)?
>
> If you are having problems with your Debian host system, I would think that
> these are unrelated to VirtualBox and indicative of problems in your Debian
> system. Is your virtual Windows system crashing & rebooting (not unheard of
> with Windows) or is your Debian host system crashing & rebooting?
>
> With regard to running a vmi-disk created by virtualbox-ose 1.6 under
> VirtualBox 3.0, I seriously doubt that it will work. While VBox 3.0 may well
> be able to work with the vmi-disk, but I doubt that the virtual Windows
> system will be able to handle the changes in virtual hardware. That is to
> say, that the new VBox 3.0 will present newer/different hardware devices to
> the Windows O/S which will not have the correct drivers to run. (I think this
> was mentione elsewhere in this thread.) I would suggest creating a new
> virtual Windows system from scratch.
>
> Cheers!
>
> cmr
>
>
>
>
I probably found what was the couse of my problem.
I tried to install into my guest Windows system the skype for Windows
version 4.1.
It didn't want to work under virtualbox-1.6.6-ose and always closed
itself with the reporting about error.
But when it tried to run under VirtualBox 3.0.2 of the Sun, that process
gave such effect.
When I created my new vdi-disk under the VirtualBox 3.0.2 it ran good.
But when I had installed the skype into the guest system and have tried
to run it, the adove-mentioned problem came again.
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