[CLOSED] Re: [gentoo-user] inaccessible virtual machine

[Valmor de Almeida]

On 03/29/2011 09:16 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> On 03/29/2011 09:07 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
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>> A couple of questions:
>>
>> 1) Is the machine on a RAID partition or some other form of storage
>> which, for whatever reason, isn't mounted? I have that problem now and
>> again on my compute server. The Linux kernel guys haven't made my
>> drive D & E disk interfaces 100% reliable as of yet so in my case I
>> might have to reboot once or twice to get the drives recognized.
>>
>> 2) What kernel are you using. I saw a few messages this week on
>> Virtualbox problems when running the 2.6.38 series kernel. I'm running
>> 2.6.38 and haven't seen them myself though.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Mark
>
> I am running VB on a gentoo laptop; everything is mounted. I have not
> had any problems for a long time. I sync'ed portage a couple of weeks
> ago and the VB worked with my virtual win7 machine without problems.
>
> I am using 2.6.36-gentoo-r5. I have been searching the web and the VB
> forum pages but no luck yet. In the meantime I re-emerged VB without the
> pulseaudio USE flag and copied a working backup of .VirtualBox/ to my
> home directory; still get the same message (inaccessible). I will try an
> older backup later.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Valmor
>

I went back to a previous windows 7 VM backup and re-emerged VB without
the pulseaudio flag. All worked. I also installed AC'97 codecs driver in
the windows 7 VM and got sound working. Interesting that the VM got
corrupted when VB was emerged with the pulseaudio USE flag.

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Valmor

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