Embedded Vmware image problem
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Problem: I cannot get embedded to boot within VMWare
Version: embedded BETA 2.0 (BETA5-4g-i386-20110221-1948-nanobsd.img.gz)I created a vmware image with an 8gb hard disk. I used dd to copy the vmware image to the virtual disk as described in the install wiki (wiki).
When the vmware image boots I get "BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02" and just freezes there. Any ideas?
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Your sure its no0t because it doesnt generate any output to the screen?
You cant ping it af a while?
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It looks like this. Is that normal?
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Embedded has all output via serial console. Why are you trying to run it on VMWare?
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It works on VMware fine, you can setup the serial port on the VM to use a named pipe and connect to putty.
I use it for testing/debugging nanobsd issues, but in practical terms it probably isn't worth doing in a VM for most people.
If you really want to do it, here's how:
- Edit the VM
- Add a serial port if one doesn't exist
- Check connect at power on
- Select Use Named Pipe
- Name: \.\pipe\vmname
- This end is the server
- The other end is an application
- click OK, start the VM
Then fire up PuTTY, select serial, and enter \.\pipe\vmname for the port.
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Thank you very much!
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I need to make a doc wiki entry for that I suppose. It's handy to have. The same tactic should work on VirtualBox as well.