Impossible to start Virtualbox image

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello everybody,

we factored in the instructions and tips from Ben and Co. Let us know if
it's better now.

Thanks everyone!

Have a great day,
 Daniel



On 22.04.2015 19:31, Alexander Sack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Nick McCloud <nick at descartes.co.uk> wrote:
>> This link https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/#ova on this page
>> https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start appears to imply we can run a
>> virtual local image legitimately. I’ve offered to go over the Snappy pages
>> prior to their formal release so I’ll alert your colleagues about this.
>>
> 
> Thanks a bunch! I have CCed Daniel and David who are bringing the docs
> together. If you have concrete things you suggest we should change
> either reach out to us in private or do it here!
> 
>> My main desktop is Mac OS, most of the rest of the computers in my office
>> are virtual as there is a limit to how much hardware I can cram
>> on/under/over my desk and I’m not keen on running Ubuntu Desktop on VMware
>> Fusion to have it run VirtualBox to run the OVA. Giving us the freedom to
>> run a virtual Snappy Core against VMware Workstation/Fusion/ESXi or
>> VirtualBox or Hyper-V would be very useful.
>>
>> That said, I’ll see if I can quintuple boot my MacBook and slip an Ubuntu
>> partition on it. I’ll also try the blog instructions out.
>>
>> Ta
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>> On 22 Apr 2015, at 17:31, Ben Howard <ben.howard at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> I fixed the Vagrant images, so they now work.
>>
>> I think there is some confusion about the OVA images; they are meant to
>> run within a Cloud fabric. The Vagrant images are the developer laptop
>> story. If you want to use the OVA images, please see [2].
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/snappy/15.04/core/edge/20150422.1/core-edge-amd64-vagrant.box
>> [2]
>> http://blog.utlemming.org/2015/04/using-snappy-ova-images-when-you-dont.html
>>
>> On 04/22/2015 09:34 AM, Nick McCloud wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I can login on latest VirtualBox on Mac OS after disabling PAE and
>> waiting for rapl line to timeout.
>>
>> After a similar wait, get to the login on VMware Fusion & ESXi 5.5 U2, but
>> can’t login on either.
>>
>> As I’m using the same OVA, this is weird!
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> On 22 Apr 2015, at 13:36, Ben Howard <ben.howard at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> Confirmed. I'm taking a look at what's going here.
>> ~Ben
>>
>>
>> On 04/21/2015 02:22 PM, mauro at freedomotic.com wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> after 10 minutes it starts.
>> Now I can't login with ubuntu/ubuntu. The login is incorrect for it.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mauro
>>
>> On Tue, April 21, 2015 7:44 am, Nick McCloud wrote:
>>
>> You have to wait about 10 minutes.
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> On 21 Apr 2015, at 13:09, mauro at freedomotic.com wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi Nick
>> I disabled PAE/NX but the issue is still present.
>>
>>
>> Mauro
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, April 21, 2015 6:28 am, Nick McCloud wrote:
>>
>> I have it working on Virtual Box 4.3.26 on my MacBook running Mac OS
>> X
>> 10.10.3
>>
>>
>>
>> Had to turn off the PAE before it worked: Settings -> System ->
>> Processor
>> -> Enable PAE/NX checkbox - turn it off.
>>
>>
>>
>> It gets stuck at the ‘rapl domains’  line but then eventually
>> times out and you can login.
>>
>>
>> However VMware Fusion and ESXi 5.5 also get stuck on the same line,
>> Fusion eventually times out but then won’t let you login - you can
>> type the user and then the password but it reverts to the login. I
>> tried briefly with ESXi but ran out of time. This uses the same OVA so
>> rather bizarre!
>>
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to test your Virtualbox image but at startup I receive
>> the following error
>>
>> Failed to start Load/Save Random Seed
>> Unit systemd-random-seed.service entered failed state
>> piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.0: SMBus base address unitialized - upgrade
>> BIOS
>> or use force_addr=0xaddr intel_rapl: no valid rapl domains found in
>> package 0
>>
>> I'm using Virtualbox 4.3.8 on Windows 8 64 bit.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Mauro
>>
>>
>>
>> www.freedomotic.com
>>
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