[Grml] grml virtualbox

[John G. Heim]

Here is a link to the image I captured from the virtual machine:
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/grml/grml1.png

There must be some way to get a better image from a screen shot. That's 
a virtualbox question though.
On 04/16/2015 10:07 PM, John G. Heim wrote:
> I am trying to create a grml virtualbox virtual machine. My problem is 
> that it hangs during the boot from the live iso image. I'm blind so I 
> can't see the screen but I took a screen shot and ran an ocr on it.  
> The last 2 lines say this:
>
> a it ganr sgsten hangs nan, disahie udeu uith buutuptiun "nuudeu .
> a starting the hutplug euents dispatcher: udeud.
>
> When grml is booting, at some point it says something like, "If your 
> system hangs now disable something or other". I am thinking that is 
> what is happening. But the ocr is so bad I don't know what to disable. 
> Can somebody tell me what that whole message says?
>
> I created the vm with vboxmanage at the command line. So there might 
> be something wrong with the vm itself. Here is the output from 
> showvminfo if it helps:
>
> Name:            grml
> Groups:          /
> Guest OS:        Debian (32 bit)
> UUID:            0c3d9b10-476c-4d44-984c-672223bd593d
> Config file:     /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/grml.vbox
> Snapshot folder: /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/Snapshots
> Log folder:      /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/Logs
> Hardware UUID:   0c3d9b10-476c-4d44-984c-672223bd593d
> Memory size:     1024MB
> Page Fusion:     off
> VRAM size:       128MB
> CPU exec cap:    100%
> HPET:            off
> Chipset:         piix3
> Firmware:        BIOS
> Number of CPUs:  1
> PAE:             on
> Long Mode:       off
> Synthetic CPU:   off
> CPUID overrides: None
> Boot menu mode:  message and menu
> Boot Device (1): DVD
> Boot Device (2): HardDisk
> Boot Device (3): Not Assigned
> Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
> ACPI:            on
> IOAPIC:          on
> Time offset:     0ms
> RTC:             local time
> Hardw. virt.ext: on
> Nested Paging:   on
> Large Pages:     off
> VT-x VPID:       on
> VT-x unr. exec.: on
> State:           running (since 2015-04-17T02:38:37.290000000)
> Monitor count:   1
> 3D Acceleration: off
> 2D Video Acceleration: off
> Teleporter Enabled: off
> Teleporter Port: 0
> Teleporter Address:
> Teleporter Password:
> Tracing Enabled: off
> Allow Tracing to Access VM: off
> Tracing Configuration:
> Autostart Enabled: off
> Autostart Delay: 0
> Default Frontend:
> Storage Controller Name (0):            SATA Controller
> Storage Controller Type (0):            IntelAhci
> Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
> Storage Controller Max Port Count (0):  30
> Storage Controller Port Count (0):      30
> Storage Controller Bootable (0):        on
> Storage Controller Name (1):            IDE Controller
> Storage Controller Type (1):            PIIX4
> Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0
> Storage Controller Max Port Count (1):  2
> Storage Controller Port Count (1):      2
> Storage Controller Bootable (1):        on
> SATA Controller (0, 0): /home/john/grml.vdi (UUID: 
> 660b5876-7d75-4c46-93a1-53b448acbfb5)
> IDE Controller (0, 0): /home/john/Downloads/grml32-full_2014.11.iso 
> (UUID: eef9e9b9-0bd1-44c9-b94b-d07b190d09c6)
> NIC 1:           MAC: 0800273EB948, Attachment: Bridged Interface 
> 'eth0', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, 
> Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0, Promisc Policy: deny, 
> Bandwidth group: none
> NIC 2:           disabled
> NIC 3:           disabled
> NIC 4:           disabled
> NIC 5:           disabled
> NIC 6:           disabled
> NIC 7:           disabled
> NIC 8:           disabled
> Pointing Device: PS/2 Mouse
> Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard
> UART 1:          disabled
> UART 2:          disabled
> LPT 1:           disabled
> LPT 2:           disabled
> Audio:           enabled (Driver: ALSA, Controller: SB16)
> Clipboard Mode:  disabled
> Drag'n'drop Mode: disabled
> Session type:    GUI/Qt
> Video mode:      1024x768x16 at 0,0
> VRDE:            disabled
> USB:             disabled
> EHCI:            disabled
>
> USB Device Filters:
>
> <none>
>
> Available remote USB devices:
>
> <none>
>
> Currently Attached USB Devices:
>
> <none>
>
> Bandwidth groups:  <none>
>
> Shared folders:  <none>
>
> VRDE Connection:    not active
> Clients so far:     0
>
> Video capturing:    not active
> Capture screens:    0
> Capture file:       /home/john/VirtualBox VMs/grml/grml.webm
> Capture dimensions: 1024x768
> Capture rate:       512 kbps
> Capture FPS:        25
>
> Guest:
>
> Configured memory balloon size:      0 MB
> OS type:                             Debian
> Additions run level:                 0
>
> Guest Facilities:
>
> No active facilities.
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