PXE booting inside VirtualBox and KVM virtual machines stopwatched (1/2)
During the past days at FOSDEM, I wanted to do some work on automatic OS installs via PXE servers. Therefore, I set up a virtual machine in VirtualBox and enabled network booting. VirtualBox has a...
View ArticlePXE booting inside VirtualBox and KVM virtual machines stopwatched (2/2)
As a followup to my earlier post, I also did some tests with iPXE‘s bin/undionly.kpxe and bin/undionly.kkpxe targets. In some of my test scenarios, I let ipxe.pxe chain-load pxelinux.0 and observed...
View ArticleFixing VirtualBox Guest Additions’ vboxvideo_drm.c for SUSE Linux Enterprise...
Trying to install VirtualBox‘s Linux Guest Additions under SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP3 currently fails even with the newest VirtualBox version (4.2.16): sles11sp3:/tmp/vbox.0.orig # make...
View ArticleHow to recreate / build VirtualBox guest additions ISO image...
As Linux kernel development progresses, so do interfaces change from time to time and kernel modules outside of the Linux kernel such as VirtualBox’s guest additions need more or less updating. Having...
View ArticlePatching VirtualBox guest additions for SLES12/RHEL7 guests
This may not be relevant to most of you, yet, as the SLES12 and RHEL7 beta programs are not quite open to the public, but similar problems may happen to you with other distributions that do backports...
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