Lone Coder: VirtualBox on Vista with a Gentoo Guest

[teddy mills]

I have done stage3 Gentoo installs at least 50 or more times.
It has been about a year since I have installed Gentoo on a
regular basis.

So now I still get tripped up by

1. selecting the right kernel modules
2. getting the new compiled kernel into /boot without
    the no kernel found error
3. getting the /dev/sda or /dev/hda right depending on the motherboard




Ken Burtch wrote:
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> Thanks for the info.
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> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Jon VanAlten wrote:
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>>>
>>> As Gentoo doesn't come with an xorg.conf file--except the sample one
>>> provided with the software and that doesn't support VirtualBox--and X
>>> Windows cannot not run without an xorg.conf file, and Gnome and KDE 
>>> require
>>> X to run, I find it unlikely that you can get a graphical desktop in
>>> VirtualBox without creating and configuring the X config file.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know at which version this changed, but (for most common
>> hardware) X does not need xorg.conf to run anymore.  Hardware is
>> auto-detected at runtime.  Now, I don't use Virtualbox so I can't
>> speak to whether its virtualized hardware would be detected
>> correctly...
>>
>> jon
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