I have had no success booting 64-bit Linux from .ISO files. The machine is running Windows/7 and VirtualBox v5.02/ This is a show stopper because the VirtualBox doesn't allow me to point to a boot USB and this PC does not have a CD or DVD drive.
My mission is to install
- Linux Mint-17.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso onto a VirtualBox hard drive (.VDI).
Hopefully you have some wisdom to put me back on track. Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
Will
I created a fixed size, 20GB (empty) virtual disk and allocated 1 GB of RAM of 4GB installed. Which ought to be adequate just to boot up a LiveCD ISO, imho. I get a memory error and a 'Guru Meditation' popup.
After experimenting with some different configuration options, I followed the same process for:
- Debian 8.1 64-bit -- debian-live-8.1.0-amd64-cinnamon-desktop.iso
- Lite 2.4 64-bit
I also tried to mount the same machine with Mint Cinnamon. It worked once, the second time it again gave me the memory error. After stopping VirtualBox and 'ejecting' the ISO from the debian machine, it again started with Debian Cinnamon. I 'ejected' the debian ISO and rebooted with the Mint ISO mounted (logically).
Mint did boot and start-up only to show me the Meditation Guru after I'd clicked on a few things.
Bottom line is the Mint ISO didn't work on Virtualbox in isolation; and when there was some progress, it still crashed. So at the very least it is not stable for Debian, Lite or Mint at this point.
I have attached log files for essentially the Same VM configuration with different reboots:
debian-live-8.1.0-amd64-cinnamon-desktop.iso
- worked:
- failed:
As far as I can tell, I've ticked the boxes identified in that thread.