Virtual Box

[Guest megsani]

Hello, I am megsani and new to Mandriva (and everything linux!). I have installed Mandriva 2008 from Live CD. I have 2 problems that need resolution immediately:

 

- need to activate wifi ( I have broadcom 43xx) (tried ndiswrapper with windows xp driver -bcmwl5.inf/bcmwl5.sys but got error that no device with such driver)

- need to install virtual box ose. I have installed windows, then mandriva. I need to switch between windows/mandriva without rebooting.

 

Hope somebody out there can help me out. Every help is greatly appreciated.

[mindwave]

well for the 1st one. I honestly sis NOT have any problems at all for the FIRST time w/ 2008 and my broadcom wlan in my notebook. HOWEVER, I have always maintained that www.linuxant.com has the best and most seemless solution you will find PERIOD.

 

Even the $20 if you decide to buy it is WELL worth it as you can use it on any pc w/ any linux that you want

 

now, for virtual box, I havent used it inabout a year (that was 2007.1) but as I recall, it was loaded when i loaded 2008 so all I had to do was set it up.

 

I had a posting in the MCNL area about running MDV from WITHIN windows that was REALLY simple.

 

what you have, it sounds like, is a dual boot pc (windows on 1 side and Linux on the other), whereas what you WANT is to load linux, and then (perhaps)click a selecrtion in linux (like V-box) and launch your windows?

 

does that sum it up?

 

If so, I would work w/ V-box and get your Windows virtual machine up and running, then go intio GRUB and take out the windows entry only AFTER your comfprtable w/ you v-box setup.

 

realize, that as good as v-box is, there are still certain things that require WAY too much configuratuion to get setup (again my 2 cts

 

let me know

[viking777]

If you want my advice don't install the OSE version of Virtualbox, it has no USB support and is to all intents and purposes useless.

 

Instead go here and install the full version. They have a binary specially compiled for Mandriva and it works very well.

 

https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfini...G-F@CDS-CDS_SMI

[theYinYeti]

Maybe VMWare would better fit your needs.

Anyway, here are usefull links I gathered:

- https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=51074

- http://oopsilon.com/Running-a-Windows-Partition-in-VMware

- http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=333

- http://mesbalivernes.blogspot.com/2008/01/...m-existing.html

 

Your main problem will be Windows activation. I set up VMWare (almost) as explained in the second link above; unfortunately, the first link below did not work for me: Windows works fine in the virtual machine, but when I boot it with the real hardware, it demands activation again.

- http://w3.cs.jmu.edu/arch/schol/sysadm/hdvm-instl/All.html

- http://communities.vmware.com/message/623365

- http://www.microsoft.com/france/technet/pr...te/xpactiv.mspx

 

By the way:

- The Parted "set 1 boot on" command doesn't work. Instead, you'll have to open MCC, change boot configuration to "text LILO" with windows as default OS; then you can run "dd if=/dev/hda of=WindowsXP.mbr bs=512 count=63" (or similar) as explained. After all is done and working, you can revert to graphic Grub with Linux as the default OS.

- Be extremely carefull ! The Windows partition must not be used twice at the same time, for example both booted (VMWare) and mounted (Linux), else you can destroy your Windows filesystem. The Linux partition must not be used twice at the same time, for example booted both for real and in VMWare by inadvertance, else you can destroy your Linux filesystem.

 

Yves.