Nxl67002

Installed Operating System

• Windows XP
  • Configuration files
• Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS
  • Configuration files
• Wine on Ubuntu
  • Configuration files
• AndLinux (ported from BEQLEUNXP1NB103)
  • Configuration files

System

Log

• [2010-03-19] BIOS — Virtualization - Enabled Virtualization instruction + Virtualization IO
• [2010-03-19] Info — Original partition:

Device	Label	Size	Type	Comment
/dev/sda1/		298.05 MiB	FAT16	Dell rescue
/dev/sda2/	AWS_Data	104 GiB	NTFS	Windows D:
/dev/sda3/	AWS_System	44.76 GiB	NTFS	Windows C:

• [2010-03-21] Backup — (Ubuntu USB) Resize and backup windows system partition:

  sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=nxl670002-sda-20100321.mbr bs=512 count=63
  sudo sfdisk -l -uS /dev/sda >nxl670002-sfdisk-20100321.txt
  sudo ntfsresize --size 20000M /dev/sda3
  sudo ntfsclone --force --save-image -o - /dev/sda3 | gzip -c > nxl670002-sda3-resized-2010321.img.gz
  

• [2010-03-22] Disk — (Ubuntu USB) Move /dev/sda3 to /dev/sda2:
• Delete partition /dev/sda2, and create new NTFS partition /dev/sda2, 32212 MiB, label=SYSTEM (using Gparted)
• Copy /dev/sda3 to /dev/sda2, and restore size:

sudo ntfsclone --force --save-image -o - /dev/sda3 | sudo ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite /dev/sda2 -
sudo ntfsresize --force --size 33772999680 /dev/sda3

• Set boot flag on /dev/sda2, delete /dev/sda3 (using Gparted)
• Mount /dev/sda2, and edit boot.ini as follows: change .../partition(3)/... to .../partition(2)/...
Failing to do so will give the following error when booting Windows:

 Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
 Windows\System32\Hal.dll

• Set up partitions as shown below.
• [2010-03-22] VirtualBox — Host-only network vboxnet0:
  • IPv4 address/mask 192.168.11.150/255.255.255.0 (same as AndLinux)
  • DHCP Server address/mask 192.168.11.1/255.255.255.0, Lower/Upper address bound 192.168.11.2/192.168.11.99
• [2010-03-22] VirtualBox — Virtual machine NXL67002:
  • Create vmdk to boot windows partition /dev/sda2. Update the MBR code to remove GRUB. Repeat this every time the partitions change:

  sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=opensource.mbr bs=512 count=1
  sudo apt-get install mbr                                 # For command "install-mbr"
  sudo install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 opensource.mbr
  sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename nxl67002-sda2-mbr.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2 -relative -mbr opensource.mbr
  

  • Base Memory 1536 MB, 2 cpus, IO APIC enabled, VT-x/AMD-V enabled, Nested Paging enabled
  • [2011-03-30] — Base Memory 1536 MB, 1 cpus, IO APIC disabled, VT-x/AMD-V enabled, Nested Paging enabled
    Disable IO APIC support because it slows down the VM. This requires changing the Windows HAL to Standard PC (which is uniprocessor architecture).
  • Video memory 64 MB, 2 monitors, 3D accel enabled, 2D accel enabled
  • Audio host driver PulseAudio, controller ICH AC97
  • Network PCnet-FAST III, bridged, eth0
  • Network PCnet-FAST III, Host-only adapter, vboxnet0
  • Machine folder: permanent, full access, /win/d as d
  • Default layout: fullscreen mode

Benchmarking

Some boot time measurement:

Date	System	Login Window	Launch VBox	Outlook avail	Auto-mail
2011-03-09	Ubuntu Lucid	1:20	1:39
2011-03-09	XP (VBox)	1:20		3:30	4:12

TBC - numbers are not very accurate

Partition

Linux dev	Windows dev	Type	Label	Size	Type	Linux Options	Linux Mount
/dev/sda1/	\Device\Harddisk0\Partition?	primary	Dell Utility	298 MiB	fat16
/dev/sda2/	\Device\Harddisk0\Partition?	primary	AWS_SYSTEM	25 GiB	ntfs
/dev/sda3/	\Device\Harddisk0\Partition3	primary		100 MiB	ext3		/boot
/dev/sda5/	\Device\Harddisk0\Partition4	logical	ROOT	10 GiB	reiserfs	notail,noatime	/
/dev/sda6/	\Device\Harddisk0\Partition5	logical		4.0 GiB	swap	Defaults	swap
/dev/sda7/	\Device\Harddisk0\Partition6	logical	AWS_DATA	87 GiB	ntfs		/win/d
/dev/sda8/	\Device\Harddisk0\Partition7	logical	DATA	24 GiB	reiserfs	notail,noatime	/data