On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:07:48 -0500 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) You described your frustration but never mentioned what it is you want. Is it a download source for a working appliance? Google will find one of those for you. Booting a Gentoo VM is easy, just like any other distro (well, apart from the fact that binary distros ship scripts that disciver your hardware and load the correct modules at boot time). More than likely you are running into the usual issues: - chipset modules not compiled into kernel - Filesystem type on / not compiled into kernel - You selected the wrong modules for disks and NIC. Remember that a VM guest does not necessarily present the same hardware to it's kernel as the host! In the VirtualBox config dialog, look at the hardware settings for your guest - it usually emulates common hardware types, which is highly likely to not be the same as your real hardware (there's a software in between that abstracts these things) Hope this help -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
