Installing on a virtual machine

[Member just_tryin2]

I’m trying to install Antix on a virtual machine. I tried using Aqemu and Gnome-boxes. But whenever I try to install, on the reboot the screen freezes on “booting from hard disk…”. Does anyone have any advice?

[Member Xecure]

It should just work after installing. I am not sure if you have to “unmount” the ISO after shutting down the VM before the next Boot, but installing should just work.

I haven’t used any of the programs you mention myself, but they should work the same for installing MX as for installing antiX.
Video using Virt-manager to install MX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoTLBGb6ls8

A question. Did you select to install GRUB during the installation process (no matter what it says, you NEED grub to boot into the OS)?

I only have experience with Virtualbox, so no idea if you need to set something extra before booting.

[Member skidoo]

Is a detail missing from the OP?
“booting from hard disk…”

What follows the ellipsis? Is it a message stating “no bootable device” ?
If so, a startpage.com websearch
gnome-boxes “booting from hard disk” “no bootable device”
finds a recurring suggestion to “change somethingsomething (virt-manager?) storage type settings, from RAW to qcow“

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antiX version//edition ~~ stable vs testing repos ~~ live vs installed vs virtualbox ~~ hardware specs

[Member just_tryin2]

It does not say anyting after “booting from Hard Disk…” It just hangs.

It says:

SeaBIOS (version 1.14.0-2)

iPXE (http://ipxe.org) 00:03.0 CA00 PC12.10 PnP [more letters and numbers]

Booting from Hard Disk…

[Member skidoo]

my suggestion(s):

check the gnome-boxes project bugtracker to see if others have encountered same problem. If no one has, you canopen an issue ticket and report it
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/-/issues

v——— askaboutit on the boxes irc chat channel
irc://irc.gnome.org/%23boxes

If gnome-boxes was preinstalled on your home distro, inquire in their user forums/

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When requesting help, pasting the output from inxi -Fzr command will provide important relevant details:
antiX version//edition ~~ stable vs testing repos ~~ live vs installed vs virtualbox ~~ hardware specs

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