{"id":277,"date":"2010-05-18T21:58:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T01:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2021-07-14T22:59:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T22:59:32","slug":"im-going-virtual-and-hitting-a-real-brick-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/18\/im-going-virtual-and-hitting-a-real-brick-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going virtual, and hitting a real brick wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week after reading the June 2010 issue of Linux Format I decided to do what the cover article was about, which was &#8220;Try any Distro!&#8221;  &#8220;Luckily enough&#8221; I use the base distro that they recommend, Fedora, &#8220;because it has the best implementation of Virt-Manager&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly the setup of Virt Manager was easy (yum install kvm virt-manager libvirt).  And the next part was as easy:  I downloaded the PC-BSD net install ISO.  PC-BSD because I&#8217;ve been wanting to try BSD for a while, and PC-BSD because the same issue of Linux Format happened to review it.<\/p>\n<p>After that things went well:  I follow the setup &#8212; 10 gigs virtual hard drive, &#8220;1&#8221; processor of two (my machine only has one, but I guess the hyperthreading is up and running, so the system identifies two processors) 512 megs of ram, etc.  And I go through the easy setup.  The whole things takes about 3 hours to download all the packages and do the setup.  Bedtime comes around, and it&#8217;s ready to reboot.  Darn, I have to go to bed on an error message:  &#8220;No \/boot\/kernel\/kernel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So the next evening, I decide to try OpenSolaris and OpenSuSE, the latter in the netinstall option.  Things fare worse:  OpenSolaris says that there&#8217;s &#8220;No bootable device&#8221;.  Huh?  Isn&#8217;t it supposed to boot off of the ISO so that I can go through either the install process or see the live-CD?  OpenSuSE gives me the same result.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to look into this &#8230; the second two experiences make me wonder if the PC-BSD problem is not coincidence, but I think that it coincidentally tells me that there is a problem with reading the virtual hard drives, but the problem with the second and third cases is just getting them to properly boot the ISOs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week after reading the June 2010 issue of Linux Format I decided to do what the cover article was about, which was &#8220;Try any Distro!&#8221; &#8220;Luckily enough&#8221; I use the base distro that they recommend, Fedora, &#8220;because it has the best implementation of Virt-Manager&#8221;. Certainly the setup of Virt Manager was easy (yum install &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/18\/im-going-virtual-and-hitting-a-real-brick-wall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m going virtual, and hitting a real brick wall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,33,195],"tags":[62,197,198,196],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora-linux","category-linux","category-virtualization","tag-fedora","tag-pc-bsd","tag-suse","tag-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}