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VirtualBox VMs don't fall through to local disk

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    RuralIT
    last edited by May 15, 2013, 3:10 PM

    We ran into this [URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_looping_and_Chainloading’]link[/URL] on chain-loading in the FOG documentation. We’re looking into this now.

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      Jaymes Driver Developer
      last edited by May 17, 2013, 6:37 PM

      Sorry I never got around to looking at my Virtual box I’ve spent all week in the attic running networking cable!!! did you get this resolved? I can try to get a look at the box Monday.

      WARNING TO USERS: My comments are written completely devoid of emotion, do not mistake my concise to the point manner as a personal insult or attack.

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        RuralIT
        last edited by May 17, 2013, 8:13 PM

        Our summer student has kept pushing on this, and looked into an alternative to pxelinux. I think I’ll set up a FOG test environment myself in a VBox test network sometime soon…but I’m on vacation at the moment. It will have to wait at least until Tuesday.

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          Jaymes Driver Developer
          last edited by May 24, 2013, 2:54 PM

          If you are still having issues I recommend using a custom built kernel, I had to do so to use VMWare, and I take back what I said before about VMWare, Stay on Virtual box, it’s a much easier program to use!!!

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            RuralIT
            last edited by May 24, 2013, 3:29 PM

            We never figured out how to get a FOG server and client up and running in VirtualBox. I’m sure I initially tested FOG under VirtualBox successfully, but that was more than three years ago. I think it was just a case of choosing the right virtual network hardware and/or chipset.

            And I never got time to look at it myself, which happens at this time of year.

            We ended up setting up FOG on an old workstation (this is just to get the summer student acquainted with FOG) and tried imaging some new Acer desktops. It works, but there BIOS is a little funny. You can PXE boot or HDD boot, but you can’t PXE boot and then fall through to the HDD. So we have to change the boot settings in BIOS, image, then change the boot settings back. We won’t be buying any more of this model of computer.

            [quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 12372, member: 3582”]If you are still having issues I recommend using a custom built kernel, I had to do so to use VMWare, and I take back what I said before about VMWare, Stay on Virtual box, it’s a much easier program to use!!![/quote]

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            • J
              Jaymes Driver Developer
              last edited by May 24, 2013, 3:59 PM

              yeah that sounds to me like it is something to do with the ACER hardware or the way it handles the hard drives, I don’t recommend them, but all of our Tangent computers work well with FOG 🙂

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                falko Moderator
                last edited by May 26, 2013, 12:39 PM

                I would just like to add that Virtualbox is great tool and I have had it working with for for a very long time as both servers and images

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                  eddieduce
                  last edited by Jul 25, 2013, 8:23 PM

                  falko, how do you boot the client to PXI? My machine hangs with a static place holder (underscore).

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                    fmslick
                    last edited by Feb 16, 2015, 4:38 AM

                    I know this is a old thread but I have found out if the VM has no OS on the hard drive it will just loop over and over on the countdown.

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                      Berend de Boer
                      last edited by Feb 16, 2015, 6:27 AM

                      Nothing to do with the VM, physical hardware with no partition on the disk will do the same. You need to restore from a full disk image.

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                        fmslick
                        last edited by Feb 16, 2015, 11:43 PM

                        I didn’t test this with physical hardware it was just something I seen when I was testing FOG in VM’s before moving to physical hardware and thanks for the addon there that now I know it will do the same on physical hardware.

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