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Instructions to import Ubuntu guest Virtual Machine for RISC-V development for the VEGA board
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Running with older Virtualbox, other VM software and other operating systems #13

Open jeremybennett opened 5 years ago

jeremybennett commented 5 years ago

Ubuntu

Virtualbox

I was able to get the OVA image working with Ubuntu 17.10 and VirtualBox 5.1.34. You will need the Virtualbox extension pack:

sudo apt install  virtualbox-ext-pack

I don't get a usable console, but with the default NAT settings I can connect over SSH:

ssh -X -A user@192.168.56.101

which means I can then fire up Eclipse from the command line.

Virtual Machine Manager

VMM cannot yet handle OVA files. However the OVA image is just a tar of a file image and some settings. Untar the OVA and you get a vmdk file, which VMM can convert and use.

Fedora

Virtualbox

We couldn't get the OVA image to work on Fedora 27. We can get Virtualbox to run, but when it loads the OVA image, it tries to use some Oracle kernel modules which are not signed.

Virtual Machine Manager

We used exactly the same approach as with Ubuntu, and the system fired up just fine. However it didn't have a network adapter, so unlike Ubuntu we had no external network connectivity.

alfredoh1234 commented 4 years ago

Planning to address in February 2020 update