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diff --git a/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn b/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index f57fcbc3..00000000 --- a/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[!meta title="VirtualBox"]] - -<http://www.virtualbox.org/> - - -# Installation - -The disk controller has to be configured as IDE. Neither SATA nor SCSI are -supported. - -The network controller should be configured as PCnet-PCI II or PCNet-FAST III -for instance. INTEL PRO or Paravirtualized Network do not work. - - -## Converting from qemu image - -It is possible to convert qemu raw image to one of the formats recognized by VirtualBox, namely vdi format. - -If you are not sure if the image is a raw format, use qemu to get the information: - - qemu-img info debian-hurd-original.img - -To convert the image you need the VirtualBox package properly installed with a VBoxManage tool (which is part of the package). Convert image from raw to vdi: - - VBoxManage convertfromraw debian-hurd-original.img debian-hurd-converted.vdi --format VDI - - -# Performance - -If [[QEMU with KVM|qemu]] is not available, VirtualBox reportedly has better -performance. - -IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-10-31: - - <youpi> I don't know what virtualbox does with hardware emulation, but - gnumach is awfully slow to probe things there |