Installing on a virtual machine

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  • February 15, 2021 at 6:16 pm #54434
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      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?

      February 15, 2021 at 6:37 pm #54438
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        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.

        antiX Live system enthusiast.
        General Live Boot Parameters for antiX.

        February 15, 2021 at 6:53 pm #54440
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          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“

          February 15, 2021 at 7:49 pm #54445
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            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…

            February 15, 2021 at 11:12 pm #54460
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              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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