Mounting VHD in Gparted?

[Uraki]

I use VIrtualBox and I've noticed I have to do "nonfs nosshd xvesa" to get PM to boot in VB.

The VM I use has 1GB of memory so I don't think it's memory related.

Note: the boot help screen (F1 then F2) shows "nossh" rather than "nosshd".

I just tried pmagic-4.9.iso-21Jan,213733 under VirtualBox 3.1.2 on a Windows 7 machine and it hangs on NFS, SSH. If you give it "nonfs nosshd" as boot parameters, it boots to black screen. Adding "xvesa" gets it to boot to the desktop and then all works as expected.

I just tried 4.6 & 4.7 and they boot with no extra parameters. 4.8 hangs at NFS, SSHD and needs XVESA like 4.9.

VirtualBox VM machine parameters

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[Patrick Verner]

I test Parted Magic almost entirely from VIrtualBox. I don't have ANY issues with Xorg, Xvesa, sound, mice, keyboard, network, etc...

It must be your settings or something on your host system.

[Uraki]

I've thought the same thing, but this machine is a pretty unremarkable Core 2 Duo that started out as a Vista machine and now is a 32-bit Windows 7 machine. This processor does not have VT-x.

It gets regular Windows Updates and the occasional video driver update but other than that, it's pretty stable and is used for VM testing, work & computer-related surfing and my access to work via VPN. It has no email usage and I scan it regularly for malware, etc (never has found anything).

I have several other VM's on it and have never had any problems with them.

I'll keep looking for an answer as to why the later PartedMagic versions have the booting issue...it will be interesting to see if anything changes with the next VirtualBox update.

[Icecube]

It is possible that VirtualBox on Windows 7 has a bug that isn't in the Linux version that I and Patrick use.

Try to disable as much as possible (USB, Audio an Network), just in case...

[Uraki]

Hmmm...you may be onto something there. On Win7, even with USB, audio & network disabled on the VM, 4.8 & 4.9 still hang.

On the other hand, another machine with Ubuntu 9.10 as the host OS and VB 3.12 boots 4.8 & 4.9 with no problems at all.

I think it's time to wait for a VirtualBox update.

I wonder what host OS the guy that started this thread was running....

[Icecube]

If you want it fixed, tell the VirtualBox guys .

[jonas]

Hello,

I am running Win XP as guest in Virtualbox with Ubuntu 9.10 as host.
When I try to start Parted Magic 4.8, I get the same problem:

Parted magic hangs on every boot unless I give nonfs nosshd xvesa as boot options.

[Uraki]

4.10 under VirtualBox 3.1.8 under Windows 7 32-bit now boots without having to supply any kernel parameters.