Comments by "" (@dingokidneys) on "Virt-Manager Tips and Tricks from a VM Junkie" video.

  1. Time for a snapshot of the VM prior to futzing with /etc/fstab. :)
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  2. I agree with you there. Another problem for me is the networking. I can't figure out how to bridge to my LAN. NAT works fine but bridge mode defeats me. I find VirtualBox better for mucking about with stuff though it's disk performance (especially spinning rust) leaves quite a lot to be desired if you really want to use that VM. KVM on the other hand has better performance for when you've decided you need a VM for a real task. That said I've a hell of a lot to learn about KVM and sometimes it's a bit frustrating.
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  3. I export them as an OVA - sorry that's in VBox. Duh.
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  4. I'd guess that this was to do with the HAL (hardware abstraction layer) in Windows as well as drivers. VirtualBox pretends to be hardware that Windows has supported forever by default when you let it know that you're installing a Windows guest. Fixing this would be hard though if you have a Win XP installation disk ISO you may be able to use Safe or Recovery mode or whatever it's called to try to fix it. But if you have installation media, I'd just do a clean install.
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