[Live-demo] Problems with 10.5 and VirtualBox 5.1

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Cool, I tried this and it worked. Thanks!

On 6/8/2017 3:04 PM, Nicolas Roelandt wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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(dialout),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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