[Live-demo] Problems with 10.5 and VirtualBox 5.1

[Nicolas Roelandt]

Hi Stephen,

For the first part, I can't help you. I don't a Windows computer for the
moment.

But for the shared folder, I might have an easier work around. Especially
for a workshop.

Just go to user and groups, and add user to the vboxsf group. Then logout
and log in again but without reboot ! And you should have access to your
shared folder from /media/

Best regards,

Nicolas

Le 8 juin 2017 19:52, "Stephen Woodbridge" <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> a
écrit :

Hi all,

I just tried to install OSGeo Live 10.5 on Windows using VirtualBox 5.1 and
ran into a bunch of problems. I will allow for that fact that this is my
first attempt to do this, but want to document the issues.

1. Follow the link to get VirtualBox and installed it on Windows 10 64-bit
machine.

2. tried to install vmdk following the instruction, I could not get this to
work. Issues are:
* VirtualBox Dialogs are different on 5.1, but could basically follow the
intent.
* when I tried to start the VM it launches and I get black screen with _
cursor and nothing more. Powered off VM, restarted it, same result. Could
not find a work-a-round to this issue

3. Created a new VM using the 32-bit iso. For some reason, VirtualBox would
not allow me to create 64-bit VM, so its a good thing you supplied a 32-bit
iso also.
* Launching this VM, fails with No boot disk error.
* Launching this VM and quickly hiting F12 key, brings up boot options and
selecting "c" to boot from CD-ROM, boots into Linux installation Menu
* If you select "Try Linux without installing" from the menu, it brings up
OSGeo Live, but no where are these steps documented and I tried menu
options before discovering this.

4. Once in OSGeo Live, I could not access my shared folder. It took me some
time to work around this but eventually this worked:

sudo umount /media/sf_SharedFolder
sudo chmod 777 /media/sf_SharedFolder
sudo mount -t vboxsf -o rw,nodev,uid=0,gid=120  SharedFolder
/media/sf_SharedFolder

I noticed the rc.local adds vboxsf group to user, but it does not appear in
the user account:

user at osgeolive:/media/sf_SharedFolder$ id
uid=999(user) gid=999(user) groups=999(user),4(adm),20(dia
lout),24(cdrom),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),33(www-data),
46(plugdev),50(staff),100(users),121(tomcat8),125(lpadmin),126(sambashare)

I'll be using OSQeo Live at FOSS4G Boston to present the pgRouting Workshop.

-Steve

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