mjs_mjs Posted November 4, 2009 Posted November 4, 2009 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 Posted November 5, 2009 Posted November 5, 2009 Just doing this myself but got to try and get network adapter to be seen by install (think driver issue).
jamesfed Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 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 Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 Problems here too, when mini setup starts it BSODs.
russdev Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 I could only get it to work by building the machine as a Vista client (XP BSOD)... Russ
jamesfed Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 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 Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 Try enabling IO APIC in VM settings Tried that but no cigar Do you have to enable that an rebuild or just reboot?
jamesfed Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 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 Posted December 10, 2009 Author Posted December 10, 2009 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 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 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 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 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 Posted March 8, 2011 Author Posted March 8, 2011 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 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 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 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 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 Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 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
Chris_ Posted March 8, 2011 Posted March 8, 2011 I was trying to build one in an a VM on an ESXi server. I kept getting an error (can't remember exactly), but it wasn't the network driver as it was already in Win PE.. tried using the build disk ISO also and had the same error.
tj2419 Posted September 19, 2011 Posted September 19, 2011 Hi guys, Did anyone get this working? If you did could you let me know how? What settings? Whether you used p2v or pie booted etc. Thanks
jamesfed Posted September 19, 2011 Posted September 19, 2011 Long left my CC4 school but when I got it working I just did a P2V - things may have changed though!
tj2419 Posted September 19, 2011 Posted September 19, 2011 Long left my CC4 school but when I got it working I just did a P2V - things may have changed though! Sorry new to p2v. Which one did you use? Cheers
jamesfed Posted September 19, 2011 Posted September 19, 2011 Sorry new to p2v. Which one did you use? Cheers I used the VMWare one at the time - now adays we are all Hyper-V at my new place however I would instead go with XenConvert instead.
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