From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QRi5N-0002Y6-9d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:51:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E36EC1C194; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:49:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (unknown [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B955F1C194 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:49:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com ([209.85.215.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRi3P-000jWq-PJ for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:49:31 +0700 Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so2148403ewy.40 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.4.164 with SMTP id 36mr2729347eej.243.1306921766884; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.48.14 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 02:49:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6227213.RA0ZNyDLLZ@eve> References: <201105312135.36478.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <6227213.RA0ZNyDLLZ@eve> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:49:26 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox? From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8c0f56ba3801110b878e2f137faf6b49 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 15:10, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 01 June 2011 11:52:25 Pandu Poluan wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 03:35, Mick wrote: >> > On Tuesday 31 May 2011 21:02:46 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > I see. =C2=A0In my head it is as if we're going against the udev princ= iple of >> > populating required device nodes. =C2=A0If udev does not start, isn't = it time >> > to head for the nearest LiveCD, or must we ensure that every breakage >> > is fixable in single-user mode? >> >> There are cases for each, but I personally prefer going single-user. >> Especially when working on virtualized servers. > > +1 > Even though with virtualized servers, using Xen, it's possible to access = the > filesystem easily from the host. > Well, in my case, the servers ran as VMs on top of VMware in my Cloud Provider's infrastructure... No consoling into the hypervisor, understandably. And even worse: Can't attach the virtual hard disk to another live VM. Either I have to boot with a LiveCD, or go into single-user. The former took quite some time to boot, so I really prefer the latter. Rgds, --=20 Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com