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sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename nxl67002-sda2-mbr.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2 -relative -mbr opensource.mbr
sudo VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename nxl67002-sda2-mbr.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2 -relative -mbr opensource.mbr
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* Base Memory '''1536 MB''', '''2''' cpus, VT-x/AMD-V '''enabled''', Nested Paging '''enabled'''
* <s>Base Memory '''1536 MB''', '''2''' cpus, '''IO APIC''' enabled, VT-x/AMD-V '''enabled''', Nested Paging '''enabled'''</s>
* {{red|[<tt>2011-03-30</tt>]}} &mdash; Base Memory '''1536 MB''', {{red|'''1'''}} cpus, '''IO APIC''' {{red|disabled}}, VT-x/AMD-V '''enabled''', Nested Paging '''enabled'''<br/>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'''
* Video memory '''64 MB''', '''2''' monitors, 3D accel '''enabled''', 2D accel '''enabled'''
* Audio host driver '''PulseAudio''', controller '''ICH AC97'''
* Audio host driver '''PulseAudio''', controller '''ICH AC97'''

Revision as of 11:50, 30 March 2011

Installed Operating System

System

Log

  • [2010-03-19] BIOSVirtualization - 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) Gparted → Deleted partition /dev/sda2
  • [2010-03-22] Disk — (Ubuntu USB) Gparted → New NTFS partition /dev/sda2, 32212 MiB, label=SYSTEM
  • [2010-03-22] Disk — (Ubuntu USB) 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
    
  • [2010-03-22] Disk — (Ubuntu USB) Gparted → Set boot flag on /dev/sda2, delete /dev/sda3
  • [2010-03-22] Error — Booting Windows we have the following error:
  •  Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
     Windows\System32\Hal.dll
    
  • [2010-03-22] Disk — (Ubuntu USB) Mount /dev/sda2, and edit boot.ini as follows: change .../partition(3)/... to .../partition(2)/...
  • [2010-03-22] Disk — Setting up partition 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