Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

claude · Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 153 Location: Saint-Jérôme, Qc

Question for Playdayz..... would it be possible to give us a simple tutorial to produce ovf and vmdk files for Puppy 5.2 (or any other version): I tried the one you did for puppy 4.3.1 and it works very well: I am trying to get VirtualBox guest additions to work for Puppy 5.2 and I do not succeed to get the shared file working..... the host is a Windows (XP or Seven).

Thank you very much for your help.

Claude

gronos04 · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 54 Location: Radfordia QLD

@gcmartin
I have been running an access control system on a xp guest from puppy using Virtual Box for a number of years now.
It is like an elephant riding around on a mouse.
Previously I ran Parallels on puppy and Parallels on Centos4
I was able to move to VBox when they finally got that network bridging business sorted out
This access control application running on xp uses 45% of the total CPU so it is a dedicated box.
I am just about ready to test this setup using FATDOG and am interested to see how much of the CPU will be used.
I am using AMD2 CPU so will see what FATDOG can do, my gut feeling is that it will drop it below 20%.
I tried to remaster Fatdog with virtual box installed but it didn't go so well as VBox wasn't happy. This isn't a problem and as it only takes 10 mins to set it up again from scratch once you have all of the files.
I use virtual machine in this way so thas that I can have a very good backup system without setting up 2 identical boxes and having raid. I had a failure the other day so I hauled the disk out plugged it into a spare box running the same puppy derivative transferred the pupsave, virtual hardisk and settings Rebooted and off it all went again happy as a clam.

Using the cli program vboxmange it is possible to start your virtual machine as x starts so it appears that you are booting into xp or another guest natively. It is also possible to run the vbox headless with having to start x and then vnc into it from the same machine or any other on the network.
If you have a powerful enough box you can run multiples OSs.
I did try to install a virtual machine inside a virtual machine but this went beyond the laws of physics.
I have also tried to install disk cloning inside the virtual machine hard disk but the cloning program didn't like the disk.

@claude
if you want to share your root folder on your puppy host.
Open vbox then go to settings for the guest machine that you want to use > shared folders - share root.
Fire up the guest xp and when it is running right click on 'my computer' > map network drive. this should take you to 'My network places' and there you should see 'VirtualBox Shared Folders' and there should be \\Vboxsvr and your shared root folder should be under that.
Going the other way you can share share you folder in windows and pick it up with Pnethood. You can share folders between virtual machines as well.

good luck
thanks to all

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 4816 Location: Earth

@Gronos04
Would you mind re-posting this post here, please? I think you'll get much better answers there.

Hope this helps

Frank Cox · Joined: 01 Nov 2009 Posts: 381

Has anyone played around with using Puppy as host?

konaexpress · Joined: 13 Oct 2011 Posts: 73

Hi, is 4.3.1 the newest VB Puppy? If it is, I will download this and let you know how it runs on a Mac.

Thanks -John

konaexpress · Joined: 13 Oct 2011 Posts: 73

Well, I downloaded it and it is running! This is so cool. Now if I could just get the internet up and running.......hmmm.

konaexpress · Joined: 13 Oct 2011 Posts: 73

Never mind, got it.

Jonesy · Joined: 13 Dec 2011 Posts: 5

I have looked all over the web and can find nothing that tells you how to manage the size of the Puppy desktop in Virtualbox. Can anyone here help? I see that the posts are very old but thanks if you still monitor this thread... Shocked

maik.murks

SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1217

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SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1217

Pelo

It's much easier to run puppy under Windows Virtual machine than the opposite. Acces code for Windows is requested, anyway.

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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10557 Location: SwedenEurope

Does Puppy run much slower in the virtual box? Too slow
for impatient persons like myself?
Could this be a way to get puppy on new UEFI machines?

The bad things is that Win 8 run in the background getting
attacked by virus and malware and what not? Windows still
vulenrable but Puppy should be rather same in a virtual environ?

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10557 Location: SwedenEurope

Does anybody know or have tried it. Oops it is an old thread
they had not UEFI trouble back then?