Ubuntu Servers :: Create The Smallest Installation Of 10.04 X64 As A VirtualBox OSE VM
Aug 23, 2010
I'd like to create the smallest-possible installation of Ubuntu 10.04 Server x64 as a VirtualBox OSE VM. I want to run just one service -- a Bitcoin client. The standard installation is about 800 MB. By whatever approach, what's the smallest possible installation? I find various procedures for removing unnecessary packages. However, I suspect that there's a simpler approach that I'm missing. By simpler, BTW, I don't mean compiling it myself. That's far above my current comfort level.
what I mean is which one has the least minimum requirements?I have a friend that has an older acer laptop and he says its running very slow. he's running windows XP , but he only has 256MB of RAM as far as I know , XP requires a minimum of 1GB RAM to run smoothly and this is what I've told him.I've been looking around for some DDR RAM for him but its still kinda expensive. $20-30 and he'd probably do it , but some of the prices I've been seeing makes me think its not worth it. might as well just buy a newer laptop instead.
this is for Ubuntu 10.4 i cant create a VDI or anything else beyond that point without root access, however if i open virtualbox with sudo privileges from the terminal(which ive already went through), once i go to open it normally from the launcher in the Applications list those changes arent there. here is the error i get
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Failed to create the hard disk storage test.vdi. Could not create the directory '/home/marcus/.VirtualBox/HardDisks' (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).
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in 8.04 we use to have an option in the System tab for applying access to non root users, but in 10.4 the only similar option is User Groups, an the only options that seem similar to this issue is "mount user space file systems" and "use virtualbox virtualization solutions" neither of which have any effect. is there a new way to apply non root users with root access in 10.4?
I'm wondering what the least err unit/ units are for a working Linux. For instance. Is a kernel + a window manager enough? Then let's say you install one app on top of that - now you have one app you can use, right? But is that right (kernel + window manager)? Do you even need a window manager for a functioning system? Do you need more than the window manager?I'm asking because I'm fixing to build something from the ground up but it isn't a regular Linux thing and I want to approach if from the direction of adding just what I need not taking away what I don't.
I'd like to have a virtual system for one purpose only.I need preferably chromium browser (or Firefox) installed with java run time so that I can have jre running in chromium.What are the simplest (less resource hungry) distros you can recommend?
OK I need a Linux OS that will have as small memory foot print as possible to host VMware. I thought about DSL or Puppy Linux but they aren't exactly know for running server class stuff.
I'm mounting a shared folder in an arch linux guest on a windows 7 host in Virtual Box. The shared folder's filesystem is ext3 and is mounted in windows 7 with Ext2Fsd. I mount the shared folder at boot with this fstab:
I have installed ubuntu server in virtual box. Everything works smooth. But when setting it up with my dyndns free domain and forwarding the ports in my router I cant seem to find my internal ip. i have tried ifconfig but dont really understand, which of them is the internal ip I dont even know if it works like that.
I'm trying to install 10.04 server into a virtual machine using virtualbox. When I start the virtual machine and try to install using the server ISO, I get the following error:
Code: This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. Unable to boot Here is my cpuinfo from lshw: Code: *-cpu:0 description: CPU product: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
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The host OS is 32bit Lucid Lynx desktop, and virtualbox works fine with a Win7 guest. Does anyone know why this might be happening?
Every time my kernel is upgraded (happens often), I reboot and forget to reinstall the VirtualBox guest additions, so my partitions in fstab that use vboxsf (for shared folders) are hosed.
I am trying to set up Vista on my Lucid within VirtualBox so I can run 3CX IP PBX. I have installed the virtualBox and set up a virtual space called "Vista", but when I start it (Power on) I get an error message - see screenshot enclosed. If I run the command
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'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
as instructed in terminal I get.
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root@server:/home/server# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/dahdi, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/dahdi.blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
I'm running the host server on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (64bit) . I'm using virtual box. I want to automatically for one of the guest vritualboxes to start on reboot. Following is already done without a success. Please help me in solving this.
1. I have created the following shell script #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/nohup /usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm "VMNAME" 2> /dev/null &
2.From the current logged on user I did a crontab -e and did the following
crontab -e @reboot /bin/sh /home/myaccount/shellscript.sh note that I do not encrypt the home directory and sufficient permissions are there.
What will be the easiest way to ssh connect a VM on VirtualBox, exporting its desktop to host, while it is already running ? I found; Howto Access via ssh a Virtualbox Guest machine.
Can anyone help me with how to create an init.d script that will startup a vm machine in virtualbox at boot? I found this script:[URL]..But it is for ubuntu. I am running fedora 12 x386 and using it as an Amahi server. Very cool, but it would be extra cool if I had a virtual windows machine startup when I booted up this server. Then I could just rdp into it when I needed something in windows.
I'm installing Sun Virtualbox and get the following error message. The install does not stop or crash, but just don't know what to do about this message:
Code: An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for frontend. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
my error when trying to run a VB (Virtualbox). Error as copied from error box. install the virtualbox-ose-modules package for your kernel and execute 'modprobe vboxdrv' as root. VBox status code: -1908 (VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED).
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I get this when trying to launch a VB after making one with wizzard.
ubuntu 9.10 64 biti try to install XAMPP and i want to create new database by use phpMyAdmin at MySQL localhost create new database it show No Privileges how to create new database from terminal
3 new 1.5TB HD. 1 used 1.5TB hd with 980MB of data. I want to set up a raid 5 with a hot spare. I have music, pictures, videos, and movies (About 2.8TB worth). I have had a mismatch of drives previously, 250GB, 2 320GB, 500GB, 2 1TB and now a 1.5TB all with data. I have removed the one 250 and 2 320s and put the data on the 1.5TB that is currently installed.
What I would like to do is create a raid5 with the three new 1.5TB HD's, copy the data over from the currently installed 1.5TB and then grow or add that drive as a hot spare. Or just add it and then add another 1.5TB down the road as a hot spare don't know for sure.
In addition since I have 2 1 TB drives, I could add 2 more (Good deals on 1 TB drives right now) and have a total of 4 1TB drives. Could I have 2 raid5's (4-1TB's and 4-1.5TB's)in two separate arrays? I really do not know if that makes sense or not but here comes LVM. I am tired of managing my HD space and since i have multiple folders (Movies, music, pictures, videos) and within the movies folder I have R, G & PG folders for the ratings of the movies. (Pwd protect the R so the kids can't get to it) So with LVM installed with the Raid5 I should be able to create my folders and just keep adding data and not worry about moving folders around when I grow the storage by adding new drives. Is that correct? Maybe someone could point me to a how to.
Also, if I create 2 arrays (And I need to know so I can order the 2 additional 1TB drives), then I could put all the music, G and PG content on the one array and all the R and spicy stuff on the other and password protect it.
Running VirtualBox 3.2.6 under some host OS (should be irrelevant which one, right?), I created a machine, intending to install Fedora 13 on it. Got the Fedora 13 Live CD iso image, and an 8.6 GB virtual hard drive, completely blank. I set the machine to boot off the Live CD image. The Live CD boots nicely and I get to its desktop. I open "Install to Hard Drive"...and nothing happens. No error message, zip, nada. Inspection of the system shows a series of odd file systems, but I have no clue what they are for and whether they're usable or not.
The sticky [URL] mentions that the blank virtual hard disk should be partitioned and formatted beforehand...So I did, using the Live CD's Disk Utility (Applications: System Tools: Disk Utility). Although the sticky states the small /boot partition should be ext2 or ext3, the Live CD installer proposes to reformat it as ext4. Shouldn't we have formatted it as ext4 right away, then? Also, the installer set the /boot partition's size to 524 MB, not 200 MB as recommended by the sticky.
OBSERVATION: This was not easy because VirtualBox sets the display to 800x600 at most, and the Disk Utility spills beyond those confines WITHOUT PROVIDING SLIDERS. It was sheer luck that the required buttons (create partition, format partition) were barely reachable (at the bottom edge of the screen). This is a serious problem, because increasing the VirtualBox display size can only be done *after* installation (see for instance[URL] - since this guest addition requires rebooting the guest OS, it probably won't stick to the Live CD).
Once those two partitions are prepared and the virtual machine rebooted, "Install to Hard Drive" works as expected.
OBSERVATION: It is absolutely inexcusable that the Live CD installer (Anaconda?) does not propose to do this partitioning and formatting for the user. It is even more inexcusable that it should fail without giving any feedback whatsoever to the user.
Aside: VirtualBox's guest additions does not work correctly (for 3.2.6 anyway). The Devices: Install Guest Additions menu merely mounts a CD image VBOXADDITIONS_3.2.6_63112) without any feedback (expected feedback because the menu ends with an ellipsis). The CD, once opened, has an Open Autorun Prompt button...which fails to do anything. Manually running autorun.sh also fails. I had to manually invoke VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run from a terminal to get anywhere. Even then I was unable to go higher than 1024x768.
I am using apache web server for my website. I have the main page up and I want to create another page. For example, I want to have "thisiswhatiwant" being the page I want to add
I'm tunneling VNC over SSH, which I manage to get working. What I want to do is this: Load into GDM as soon as Ubuntu finishes loading (I think I got this to work via the login screen config). As soon as it loads, I want it to run the command: x11vnc -safer -localhost -nopw -once -display :0 This way I don't need to issue that command over SSH anymore. Can I do this? Or is there a 'better way' to access the GUI. The machine is being stored well away from monitor/keyboard, so accessing it remotely is the way I want to do it. I'm not entirely comfortable working from the commandline so GUI it is.
