cc4 virtual box

[mjs_mjs]

Just build my first cc4 machine within a virtual box and i'm a lil pleased. Very pleased in fact. It would appear that it's faster that an equilivent hardware PC. May be a silly thing but yeah. I'm just a little impresed with Suns' Virtualbox.

Anyone else done the same thing? Are there any issues with this?

[russdev]

Just doing this myself but got to try and get network adapter to be seen by install (think driver issue).

[jamesfed]

Hi,

I can't seem to get my virtual box VM to work - I get as far as 'Installing RM Comms and Security' then the install fails.
I don't surpose you could let me know what VM settings/drivers/host PC you are using?

Thanks,
James

[sparkeh]

Problems here too, when mini setup starts it BSODs.

[russdev]

I could only get it to work by building the machine as a Vista client (XP BSOD)...

Russ

[jamesfed]

I could only get it to work by building the machine as a Vista client (XP BSOD)...

Russ

Try enabling IO APIC in VM settings

[sparkeh]

Try enabling IO APIC in VM settings

Tried that but no cigar

Do you have to enable that an rebuild or just reboot?

[jamesfed]

Tried that but no cigar

Do you have to enable that an rebuild or just reboot?

I only only boot into Windows PE if its enabled so it may not apply to you.
All the same give it a go and do a compleate rebuild.

[mjs_mjs]

When i made my machine i built it using vista as the Windows PE that CC4 uses is VISTA and uses vista drivers. Once it's finished and trys to reboot it'sself you need to shut it down and change that to xp. that should work. I also made a clean location called VM's within my main site and this is where i put all my VM's. My boss also had issues so i'll try building another VM next week and see if i have just fluked the correct settings first time.

[ChrisS]

Interested in this myself.

You could try to P2V an existing physical machine see virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows

I've not tried it yet!

[jamesfed]

Phew you've found an old thread there!
I think P2V was the best way to go at the time but who knows CC4 might have moved on since then.

[mjs_mjs]

I build my virtual boxes as CC4 boxes using PXE booting which we have set up here. It's alot easier to build from fresh than to move a box.

[ChrisS]

We had some problem with PXE boot - Missing driver? - not much effort has gone into overcoming the prob yet!

Mind you, that was vmware rather than virtualbox!

[sparkeh]

Oh I got this working but I can't for the life of me tell you what I did different.
Edit: sorry not a helpful post.

[webman]

I couldn't get VirtualBox to boot from the network card, so I just built a Windows 7 VM using a build disk ISO. Built, installed and works fine