[OSGeoLive] [SeasonOfDocs] Help needed to setup VM

Fri Jun 14 00:10:13 PDT 2019

Huzzah - I emerge from the BIOS triumphant!

I needed to enable virtualization technology and make a few other tweaks.
This page helped a lot:
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=62339

Thanks all for your help.

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 8:12 AM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Felicity, I suspect it is something much simpler than all those things
> you tried (although non-intuitive and frustratingly difficult to identify).
> So it sounds like you have made it to my screenshot 2 below?
> Maybe your newly opened VM window is not capturing the keyboard and/or
> mouse keys.
>
> Theoretically, if you don't click on the window, it should automatically
> start up after ~ 5 secs from screen 2.
> If you click on the ubuntu startup page (screen 2), are you then able to
> use the arrow keys to move up/down from the list of options? (That would
> indicate the keyboard is capturing key presses. If you can do that, you
> should then be able to press Enter on the top "Ubuntu" option and the
> startup sequence should start.)
>
> Angelos, Brian, others, you might have some more suggestions for Felicity
> to try?
>
> If you remain stuck, it might help to do a video conference either tonight
> or over the weekend and we can screen share to try and debug. SMS me some
> suggested times that work for you.
>
> Good luck, Cameron
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 07:10, Felicity Brand <felicitybrand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Cameron.
>> Yep, I get to that initial screen where I press Enter to boot the Ubuntu
>> disk. And then nothing happens - I suspect it's not booting.
>> I thought at first it's because I didn't wait long enough... so I was
>> very patient this time (20 minutes) and still nothing.
>> What I've tried so far:
>> - Uninstalling VirtualBox and reinstalling
>> - Installing an earlier version of VirtualBox
>> - Deleting the vmdk, re-downloading and following the whole procedure
>> again.
>>
>> Do I need to play around with the memory size settings or some other
>> setting maybe? I'm pretty sure my laptop meets the specs..
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 8:49 PM Cameron Shorter <
>> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Felicity,
>>>
>>> I'm switching you across to the OSGeoLive email list, where you will
>>> find people who can help with these OSGeoLive issues.
>>>
>>> I suspect you are seeing a screen similar to the following? (I have 2
>>> virtual machines, you probably only have 1, without snapshots.)
>>>
>>> Click on following 1, 2, 3 sequence.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This should take you to the following screen. If you don't click on the
>>> following screen, it will automatically boot the Ubuntu disk (which is
>>> actually our OSGeoLive disk). Otherwise just press enter
>>>
>>>
>>> If you haven't got this far, it is possible you haven't mounted your
>>> virtual machine correctly yet.
>>>
>>> The boot process will go through a couple of screens, then you will get
>>> to:
>>>
>>>
>>> Ignore the popup (press Cancel).
>>>
>>> Click "OK" on the other popup, and then you will have the virtual
>>> machine set up.
>>>
>>>
>>> Based on your error report, I suspect you might have been tripped up
>>> somewhere else, and we will need to help you with your debugging a bit more.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13/6/19 7:13 pm, Jo Cook wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Felicity,
>>>
>>> I can't edit the OSGeo Live docs, or post any screenshots right now, but
>>> hopefully I can give you some pointers to proceed, and I agree that this
>>> section in the documentation needs expanding.
>>>
>>> The OSGeo system is fully "up" when the Welcome window appears. Once
>>> you've read as much or as little of the welcome information as you would
>>> like, dismiss it with the OK button. To start a terminal session, click the
>>> terminal icon on the start bar (to the right of the firefox icon, called
>>> LXTerminal). You can then type the commands provided in the quickstart docs
>>> (as they appear after the user at osgeolive:~$ prompt).
>>>
>>> Hope that helps
>>>
>>> Jo
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 9:00 AM Felicity Brand <felicitybrand at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> I can't for the life of me get up and running.
>>>>
>>>> On this page
>>>> https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/virtualization_quickstart.html, I
>>>> need a screenshot in the "Running the Virtual Machine" section after the
>>>> text "Once the OSGeo system comes up". What should I expect to see here?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Felicity
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>>>>
>>>
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>
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>
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