CI jobs for my ansible playbook have been broken for months due to some changes with GitHub Actions.
This took me down a rabbit hole to fix...
Long story short: Self-Hosted GitHub Actions runner, running on Proxmox with nested virtualization to run molecule tests using Vagrant against VirtualBox VMs. 🙃
Good news: Network Support is in it.
Status: Still within #1440kB size for the #Core Edition.
Bad News: PCI(e) stack had to be yeeted in order to fit, so no #Networking in #VirtualBox
I'll now have to get my workflow to follow the pipeline that @SweetAIBelle has been builing...
Need some help! Okay, I’m running an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS VM via VirtualBox. After I login though, if I don’t do anything for a while, it takes me back to the login prompt. Is there a way to remove/extend the timeout?
After many years of using Oracle #Virtualbox (due to being able to use it for commercial purposes for free), I just installed and tried out #VMWare Player 17. Jesus christ is it fast! Booted stock Ubuntu 23.10 in about 11 seconds. Virtualbox was an absolute dog. That's it - I'm converting my virtualbox images over - hope that's possible.
@SweetAIBelle in theory that initramfs and kernel files should boot on qemu out of the box as @landley would've intended for #Toybox / #Linux to do.
I only tested on #VirtualBox out of lazyness and convenience.
The Flopply-Fill - Script should basically shove those files over.
I merely replaced rootfs.cpio.xz with the new file and booted that up to this point, but if you're pedantic you could literally rebuilt the entire floppy image.
Mam procesor M2 od Apple i widzę, że #VirtualBox go jeszcze nie wspiera. Jak się teraz wirtualizuje systemy? Można to zrobić za darmo? Nie mam wielkich oczekiwań, chciałem sobie zobaczyć jak wyglądają współczesne dystrybucje Linuxa.
:boost_requested: :boost_animated: :boost_ok: #FollowerPower: Anyone with #Linux - #boot|ing #KnowHow able and willing to take a look why my current build of OS/1337 doesn't boot?
It's a 1440kB 3,5" #Floppy image and should work just fine in #VirtualBox / #QEMU / #KVM / #vmware but it's stuck after loading #Linux (bzImage) and the remaining files (rootfs.cpio.xz)...
Today's $dayjob shenanigans. Building #OpenWrt from scratch as a #VirtualBox VM for sandbox testing DHCP PXE boot settings, then re-compiling to run on a BT Hub 5a for deployment in a lab.
Not very retro at all, but we all have to have a break sometime. 😊
I just installed VirtualBox on Windows for "reasons" and the installation process feels like I've been transported back to the 90s. So much more cumbersome than pkg install virtualbox-ose on #FreeBSD.
Another #VirtualBox complaint - it looks like default VM settings (at least for #FreeBSD) have not been revisited in some time. 2GB RAM and 20GB of disk (as it uses for Linux distros) feels like a more reasonable default. And claiming that EFI is for "special OSes only" seems like something that made sense in 2013, not 2023.