[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread walt
On 09/10/2009 03:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 10 September 2009 02:31:20 walt wrote: I'm attaching a screen capture of the dialog window I see when mounting an ISO file on the vm's virtual CD player. If you are seeing something very different, then that's where we need to start deb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 10 September 2009 12:04:52 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2009 09:45:46 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > In addition to the screenshot, using Linux it's very easy to create an > > ISO-file from an existing CD/DVD. > > I always do it with: > > # cp /dev/cdrom /bladiebla.iso > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 10 September 2009 02:31:20 walt wrote: > I'm attaching a screen capture of the dialog window I see when mounting > an ISO file on the vm's virtual CD player. If you are seeing something > very different, then that's where we need to start debugging. Ah! Are you telling me I have to i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 10 September 2009 09:45:46 J. Roeleveld wrote: > In addition to the screenshot, using Linux it's very easy to create an > ISO-file from an existing CD/DVD. > I always do it with: > # cp /dev/cdrom /bladiebla.iso > (change paths / names as appropriate) > > No need to install additional

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:35:41 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 18:56:50 walt wrote: > > Are you seeing something very different at your end? > > Yes. I've created just one VM (this is on my KDE-4 test system). On the > Details tab I get a list of configuration variable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 08 September 2009 18:56:50 walt wrote: > Are you seeing something very different at your end? Yes. I've created just one VM (this is on my KDE-4 test system). On the Details tab I get a list of configuration variables with their values. Under CD/DVD ROM I have "Mount CD/DVD drive" se

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-08 Thread walt
On 09/08/2009 08:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 07 September 2009 22:29:31 walt wrote: On 09/07/2009 02:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I tried it, but on my box it can't detect either of the DVD drives, so I can't install a client. Hm, never tried that. The reason is that I've always j

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 07 September 2009 22:29:31 walt wrote: > On 09/07/2009 02:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I tried it, but on my box it can't detect either of the DVD drives, so > > I can't install a client. > > Hm, never tried that. The reason is that I've always just used an iso > file 'mounted' on th

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-07 Thread walt
On 09/07/2009 02:02 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 05 September 2009 23:06:37 walt wrote: I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. I suggest y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 05 September 2009 23:06:37 walt wrote: > I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. > It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest > machine with hardware virtualization support. > > I suggest you fetch the latest stable binary packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 1:14 PM, walt wrote: > On 09/06/2009 09:38 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: >> >> walt wrote: >> [] >> >>> >>> I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. >>> It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my >>> newest machine with hardware virt

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread walt
On 09/06/2009 09:38 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: walt wrote: [] I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my newest machine with hardware virtualization support. Some questions, please: 1. How would you cont

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread Nick Khamis
1) Security is for exploiting 2) If they are well versed on the drivers that virtualization technologies use, then yes they can tell they are on a virtual machine and not on dedicated server. 3) You can bridge network connection "physically on the network" minus the nic of course 4) Virtualization

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-06 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
walt wrote: [] > > I don't use vmware but I do use virtualbox every day and I love it. > It's extremely fast even compared to kvm, which I also use on my > newest machine with hardware virtualization support. > Some questions, please: 1. How would you contrast these two packages for "security

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-05 Thread walt
On 09/05/2009 01:59 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hey Neil, I tried to compile virtualbox using intructions here "http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/VirtualBox";. And it was unsuccesful, I have attached the build.log As I said in a different thread, that version of virtualbox-modules will build successfu