[Grml] grml virtualbox

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Fri Apr 17 20:26:58 CEST 2015 

Neither boot option, noudev or that longer one you mentioned, made any 
difference. I can try the daily image but I think the problem is 
probably with my virtual machine. I created it at the command line with 
vboxmanage commands and it probably just isn't quite right.

I might go back to vmware player. At least I had a working vm with 
vmware player. But I don't like that there's no debian package for it. 
And even with it's limitations, I do really like this screenshot feature 
in virtualbox. I've been able to tell that my vm is hung by taking a 
screen shot and running tesseract on the image.

On 04/17/2015 03:36 AM, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the message says: 'If your system hangs now, disable udev with
> bootoption "noudev"'
>
> Does adding boot option mgag200.modeset=0 help?
>
> If this doesn't help either can you please test with a daily ISO
> (from http://daily.grml.org/)?
>
> As a last resort you can use the noudev boot option, but then plenty
> of drivers won't be available in the running system. So it would be
> interesting to identify why it fails for you.
>
> regards,
> -mika-
>
> * John G. Heim [Thu Apr 16, 2015 at 10:46:26PM -0500]:
>> 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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