Comments on: Configuring VirtualBox to run Moblin 2.0 Beta

By: XenonD619

XenonD619 — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:11:47 +0000

Just rename the “.img” file on the site to a iso and mount it as a iso in virtualbox

By: shixha

shixha — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:11:52 +0000

I had a problem for your help, I had installed the moblin on virtualbox ,but when restart, it stop on “moblin” logo;
thanks

By: Joel Goldstick

Joel Goldstick — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:21:27 +0000

I have vbox 3.0.10. The configuration screens are different from above, but I check all same. I get

FATAL: Not bootable medium found! System halted

Hetal: just select the img file. it is an iso

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By: Hetal

Hetal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:11:24 +0000

I am trying out Moblin 2.1 with Virtualbox 3.0.10 under windows host. The Moblin download is not a ISO but IMG image. How do we make it boot under virtualbox ?

By: Slym

Slym — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:04:34 +0000

I tried to make it work with VirtualBox 3.0.10 on a windows host : no luck.

By: Yang

Yang — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:02:54 +0000

Yea, I tried Moblin 2.0 on VirtualBox 3.0.6 on a opensuse host, did work out.

By: Peterborto

Peterborto — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:35:55 +0000

i’ve tried Moblin 2.1 developer in virtual box 3.06 but it doesn’t work

By: todd

todd — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:21:23 +0000

kolsyra: Thanks for the tip. However, Moblin’s resolution issue under VirtualBox is the least of its problem from my point of view. I’m sticking with Ubuntu Netbook Remix.

By: kolsyra

kolsyra — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:36:16 +0000

It looks like crap since the res is wrong. Try this:

- Boot from the live CD image
- Choose the option to boot and install
- Go to Applications and Terminal, become root (“su -”) and use yum to install gcc and make. (I also installed kernel-netbook-devel.i586 but I don’t know whether that was necessary.)
- Reboot to be on the safe side
- Go to Terminal and become root again
- Make a directory to mount your CD-ROM drive: “mkdir /media/cdrom”
- In the VirtualBox menu do “Install guest additions”
- In the Terminal do “mount -t auto /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom”
- Then do “cd /media/cdrom”
- Do “./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run”. The guest additions should install.
- Type “poweroff” to shut down the VM.

If you boot up now you’ll get the blank white screen like others have experienced. So:

- Disable 3D Acceleration in the VM’s settings.

The machine now boots and will arrive at the desktop, and the desktop is big enough for the menu bar to fit (unlike before the Guest Additions were installed). Mouse Integration also works but it’s a real pain trying to get the menu bar thingy at the top of the Moblin screen to appear with this turned on. So:

- In VBox’s Machine menu (at the top of the VM window), disable Mouse Integration.

Now you can open all the menus and applications and everything in Moblin works (save for the odd segfault), but it’s dog slow.