On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > I've never yet managed to build a booting vm with gentoo. Probably my > own fault, but I don't want to wrangle and study and diddle around > endlessly. Which appears to be what it takes for me anyway. > > This is a i7 64 bit system using semi newish and common sata disks (WD > 500GB [black]), and I don't need trick raid modules or the like, so > should be easy enough to build a kernel for. > > ( Setup: QuadCore Intel i7 820QM, 2648 MHz (20 x 132) - 8GB ram) > > I've found that even a genkernel built kernel including the kitchen > sink will fail to boot. > > Debian and Opensolaris installed in vbox vms with ease > > I don't want to keep wasting time building the basic OS, only to have > it not boot. > > I'm not speaking from real recent experience so it probably wouldn't > be much help to ask what error I'm having or such like. I just know > from oft repeated attempts from time to time, that it will be a pita > so would sooner just try a known working appliance ready made. > > In case you are thinking, I'm lazy... well yeah, somewhat... but I > have put in extensive effort over time... Just want the easy route > this time. (I'm also older than dirt .. hehe) >
Uh, OK, frustration is evident. But what are you asking for, other than my sympathy which I give now? (sympathy going out...) As you haven't done this recently (I do remember you having troubles a while back) I'm not sure what action you are asking me to take here. I've built a couple of Gentoo VMs on Virtualbox in the past and they both worked fine for me. I've since deleted them as I wasn't using them for anything other than seeing if I could make them work, etc. How can we help? - Mark
