Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?

WrCombs

@nerdydad said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Then it sounds like an issue with either VBox or the bottom OS (Win10). Experiencing any other weird issues? Otherwise, I'd try the Hyper-V as suggested and go from there.

nothing weird other than VBox not wanting to finish the isntall

Dashrender

even though this is a new install of Windows 10 (over a month old now), it's easy to mess it up.

I'd start by uninstalling Virtual box, reboot and reinstall then try making your VM's again.

scottalanmiller

@dashrender said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

even though this is a new install of Windows 10 (over a month old now), it's easy to mess it up.

I'd start by uninstalling Virtual box, reboot and reinstall then try making your VM's again.

Easily it's just a compatibility problem with drivers.

scottalanmiller

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@nerdydad said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Then it sounds like an issue with either VBox or the bottom OS (Win10). Experiencing any other weird issues? Otherwise, I'd try the Hyper-V as suggested and go from there.

nothing weird other than VBox not wanting to finish the isntall

So there are three things that can crash here and it is not always clear which is doing what. But is Windows, VirtualBox or Ubuntu the thing that is stopping?

WrCombs

@scottalanmiller said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@nerdydad said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Then it sounds like an issue with either VBox or the bottom OS (Win10). Experiencing any other weird issues? Otherwise, I'd try the Hyper-V as suggested and go from there.

nothing weird other than VBox not wanting to finish the isntall

So there are three things that can crash here and it is not always clear which is doing what. But is Windows, VirtualBox or Ubuntu the thing that is stopping?

I think its VirtualBox. might be ubuntu.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@nerdydad said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Then it sounds like an issue with either VBox or the bottom OS (Win10). Experiencing any other weird issues? Otherwise, I'd try the Hyper-V as suggested and go from there.

nothing weird other than VBox not wanting to finish the isntall

So there are three things that can crash here and it is not always clear which is doing what. But is Windows, VirtualBox or Ubuntu the thing that is stopping?

It wasn't obvious from what was visible. vbox was responsive up until the last step of installation (near the point of restarting the vm to complete install).

scottalanmiller

@dustinb3403 said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@scottalanmiller said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@nerdydad said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Then it sounds like an issue with either VBox or the bottom OS (Win10). Experiencing any other weird issues? Otherwise, I'd try the Hyper-V as suggested and go from there.

nothing weird other than VBox not wanting to finish the isntall

So there are three things that can crash here and it is not always clear which is doing what. But is Windows, VirtualBox or Ubuntu the thing that is stopping?

It wasn't obvious from what was visible. vbox was responsive up until the last step of installation (near the point of restarting the vm to complete install).

Do other VirtualBox functions keep working even after that VM stops? They might even if VBox crashes, but just wondering. I've seen this as a more general case before and normally it is the client VM lacking drivers.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller Yeah vbox remained functional, just this install was weird. It wasn't "Not responding" but was simply hung.

scottalanmiller

@dustinb3403 said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@scottalanmiller Yeah vbox remained functional, just this install was weird. It wasn't "Not responding" but was simply hung.

Then my gut says it is Ubuntu that is the issue.

scottalanmiller

And that is not the current Ubuntu, which can at times be an issue.

Dashrender

Re downloaded ISO, unless the MD5 matches

DustinB3403

@dashrender said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Re downloaded ISO, unless the MD5 matches

Download a current ISO, not an out of date one.

WrCombs

Soo guys.. I did what @Dashrender suggested and unistalled and reinstalled VirtualBox and rebuilt my VM. and .... https://i.imgur.com/VBUeySj.png
the install finally went through! now to update/upgrade my Ubuntu Server (right?)
and try this all again.

NerdyDad

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Soo guys.. I did what @Dashrender suggested and unistalled and reinstalled VirtualBox and rebuilt my VM. and .... https://i.imgur.com/VBUeySj.png
the install finally went through! now to update/upgrade my Ubuntu Server (right?)
and try this all again.

Yup

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

WrCombs

@nerdydad said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Soo guys.. I did what @Dashrender suggested and unistalled and reinstalled VirtualBox and rebuilt my VM. and .... https://i.imgur.com/VBUeySj.png
the install finally went through! now to update/upgrade my Ubuntu Server (right?)
and try this all again.

Yup

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

i did something similar
i just did the two seperate.

NerdyDad

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@nerdydad said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Soo guys.. I did what @Dashrender suggested and unistalled and reinstalled VirtualBox and rebuilt my VM. and .... https://i.imgur.com/VBUeySj.png
the install finally went through! now to update/upgrade my Ubuntu Server (right?)
and try this all again.

Yup

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

i did something similar
i just did the two seperate.

That's cool too.

Emad R

@wrcombs

Dont dual boot, no need.

You had issues in VBox cause it does not support passing virtualization extensions aka nested virtualization.
Install that even as trial, and install Centos VM and not Ubuntu. (Most KVM runs on RHEL or Centos)

Then from Centos minimal :

Check CPU support for Virtualization:
grep -E '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
Install KVM:
yum groupinstall Virtualization "Virtualization Platform" "Virtualization Tools"
Disable firewall or Configure accordingly:
systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl disable firewalld

And that is it, you have functional KVM host, from inside your Windows 10 Pro, without dualboot.

Dashrender

@emad-r said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@wrcombs

Dont dual boot, no need.

You had issues in VBox cause it does not support passing virtualization extensions aka nested virtualization.
Install that even as trial, and install Centos VM and not Ubuntu. (Most KVM runs on RHEL or Centos)

Then from Centos minimal :

Check CPU support for Virtualization:
grep -E '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

Install KVM:
yum groupinstall Virtualization "Virtualization Platform" "Virtualization Tools"

Disable firewall or Configure accordingly:
systemctl stop firewalld
systemctl disable firewalld

And that is it, you have functional KVM host, from inside your Windows 10 Pro, without dualboot.

The title here leads to invalid assumptions. He wasn't trying to run KVM inside VBox, he was trying to run an old version Ubuntu so he could install the Unifi Controller software.

scottalanmiller

@nerdydad said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

@wrcombs said in Wanting to Dual boot to test KVM.. Where do i begin?:

Soo guys.. I did what @Dashrender suggested and unistalled and reinstalled VirtualBox and rebuilt my VM. and .... https://i.imgur.com/VBUeySj.png
the install finally went through! now to update/upgrade my Ubuntu Server (right?)
and try this all again.

Yup

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

apt-get dist-upgrade

scottalanmiller

Has this project been supplanted by the Fedora on the old desktop project?