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Dobrica Pavlinušić's random unstructured stuff
VirtualBox: Revision 4
Seems to be best supported right now (package in Debian, optional drivers for Windows, starting unmodified VMWare machines -- after you guess right settings that is!)
^ Links * "Windows ACPI problem"<http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/995> - `agp440.sys` problem * "How to migrate existing Windows installations to VirtualBox"<http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows> - it's applicable to other emulators as well! * "Creating and Configuring Headless VMs in VirtualBox"<http://vmetc.com/2008/07/12/creating-and-configuring-headless-vms-in-virtualbox/> * "vbox-tools"<http://svn.rot13.org/index.cgi/vbox-tools> set of shell scripts to manage VirtualBox ^ Debian Install OSE version (no USB!) comes in Debian, compile `vboxdrv` with: .pre root@llin:~# module-assistant a-i virtualbox-ose .pre ^ Command line VM creation .pre VBoxManage createvm -name "VirtWorkshop" -register VBoxManage modifyvm VirtWorkshop -memory 512Mb -acpi on -boot1 dvd -nic1 nat -dvd /rest/iso/ScummVM\ Launcher\ 2.iso VBoxManage createvdi -filename hda-8Gb.vdi -size 8Mb -register VBoxManage modifyvm VirtWorkshop -hda hda-8Gb.vdi VBoxHeadless -startvm VirtWorkshop .pre ^ Convert .vdi disk to raw image *sic* this requires more than reading -h output: .pre dpavlin@x200:/virtual/win$ vboxmanage internalcommands converttoraw hda-winxp.vdi hda.img VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.1.4_OSE (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Converting image "hda-winxp.vdi" with size 8589934592 bytes (8192MB) to raw... .pre |