Lone Coder: VirtualBox on Vista with a Gentoo Guest

[Tyler Aviss]

> 3. getting the /dev/sda or /dev/hda right depending on the motherboard

I found this changed between certain kernel versions too. My drives
that used to be /dev/hd? for IDE are now all /dev/sd?, regardless of
whether they're SATA or IDE.



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> 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.
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>>> 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...
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>>> jon
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