Thanks.
I am a big user of VMware, but before paying to upgrade to VMware workstation, I am trying out Virtualbox because of the snapshot feature. If Virtualbox works fine for me, then I will forgo Workstation for VB. Funny thing is, with VMware player, I can simply copy the folder of the VM to my external, plug it into my PC at work, and open the VM right up. With Virtualbox, I have had to “export appliance” to move my VM to my work machine. Is there an easier way to accomplish this or not really?

Another question, should I set the VDI to dynamically allocate space or select a Fixed Size?

Ah,
Thanks Jaymes. My setup was I have both my FOG and the os i am manipulating in vm’s on the same machine, and have both network adapters set to local host only. I have an external fog machine I will try and pull an image to. And thanks for the kernel I will try it!

Greetings all,

I’m playing around with virtualbox because i plan to build some new images for a few clients, and building them in a VM just seems to make sense. Problem I am having is, I can’t get FOG to register the host that is inside a VM on Virtualbox. Does anyone know what specs I should use to setup the OS ie VDI, VDMK, VHD. I try to register and it just blows right threw not allowing me to enter a single bit of info.

Thanks!

[quote=“Chris Sodey, post: 21062, member: 1418”]Tom,

I will try to test your kernel. I finished making my custom kernel and it is working.

[URL=‘https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=971575DDB836155F!175&authkey=!AFmNg5OiH-ViV00&ithint=file%2C’]https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=971575DDB836155F!175&authkey=!AFmNg5OiH-ViV00&ithint=file,[/URL][/quote]

I ran into this issue with some Dell 745 and 755 with ATI cards in them. This kernel worked for me as well. Thanks!

Very nice script!

Good news! There was nothing wrong with the script. It deleted the Drivers folder after they installed collect along with the unattend.xml. Thanks for everyone’s help! it wasn’t until I pushed the image to a different model PC that I noticed it worked correctly. The first one I was using as testing grounds, apparently is missing a driver. Thanks Again!

Thanks so much Tom. I’m going to try it now and will post the results.

ok. i’ve located this in the WSIM. But, what pass do I add this on? Also, because the sizes of the disks vary, inputting a specific size could prove bad. How do I configure this to tell sysprep in the unattend.xml file to just expand the partition to fill the drive no matter what the size?

[quote=“Raff, post: 13178, member: 298”]When you shrink the partitions on the 320GB disk, make sure the free space is at the end of the disk and not in the middle. I prefer using the gparted live CD ([url]http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php[/url]) rather than windows Disk Management to accomplish this

You can use the command <ExtendOSPartition> in your unattended.xml file to expand the volume to use the full disk during sysprep.[/quote]

I am looking for this option, but can’t seem to locate it. Anyone know how to use this? I am referring to the ExtendOSPartion in the unattend.xml file