Virtualbox -

[Bob Goodwin]

Using Virtualbox in an updated F23 I've 
installed VM's for Fedora, Centos, and 
Scientific Linux.

Fedora 21 xfce live because I happened 
to have it handy, the others from the 
DVD iso's.

Fedora21 boots and runs as expected. the 
others boot and run with a text screen 
but startx reports "command not found" 
and a ping to other than localhost, 
reports network unreachable.

What am I missing?

Bob

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Bob Goodwin 
wrote:
> Fedora21 boots and runs as expected. the others boot and run with a text
> screen but startx reports "command not found" and a ping to other than
> localhost, reports network unreachable.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Bob

Bob,

What Virtualbox release are you using?. An updated Virtualbox has been
released (5.0.12) last Friday if I remember correctly, it contains fixes
for running the latest versions fo RHEL (7.2).

Maybe indirectly it will also help with CentOS.
I'm just shooting in the dark here as you didn't provide specifics about
your VBox version or Linux distros'  versions.

FC

[Bob Goodwin]

On 12/20/15 17:27, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> What Virtualbox release are you 
> using?. An updated Virtualbox has been 
> released (5.0.12) last Friday if I 
> remember correctly, it contains fixes 
> for running the latest versions fo 
> RHEL (7.2).
>
> Maybe indirectly it will also help 
> with CentOS.
> I'm just shooting in the dark here as 
> you didn't provide specifics about 
> your VBox version or Linux distros'  
> versions.
>
> FC

.

VBox Help shows the following:

VirtualBox Graphical User Interface
Version 5.0.10 r104061

The Centos 6 and 7.2, and the Scientific 
Linux are the current available versions 
obtained from their sites, SL just this 
morning.

SLF-6.5-x86_64-2014-02-06-Install-DVD.iso

CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1511.iso

the Fedora21 that tuns normally is from 
an old disk I had on hand:

Fedora-Live-WS-x86_64-21-5\

Thanks for responding,

Bob

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/20/15 20:37, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Using Virtualbox in an updated F23 I've installed VM's for Fedora, Centos, and
> Scientific Linux.
>
> Fedora 21 xfce live because I happened to have it handy, the others from the DVD iso's.
>
> Fedora21 boots and runs as expected. the others boot and run with a text screen but
> startx reports "command not found" and a ping to other than localhost, reports network
> unreachable.
>
> What am I missing?

I don't have CentOS or SL at the moment.  But, since Centos is based on RedHat and the
packages are probably pretty much the same as fedora it sounds like you didn't choose a
desktop environment at install.

/usr/bin/startx probably is from the same package as on fedora which is xorg-x11-xinit.

So, I would do ...

dnf whatprovides /usr/bin/startx    (or the yum equivalent if that is what CentOS uses)

and then make sure it is installed.

[Bob Goodwin]

On 12/20/15 19:07, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > > What am I missing?
>
> I don't have CentOS or SL at the moment.  But, since Centos is based on RedHat and the
> packages are probably pretty much the same as fedora it sounds like you didn't choose a
> desktop environment at install.
>
> /usr/bin/startx probably is from the same package as on fedora which is xorg-x11-xinit.
>
> So, I would do ...
>
> dnf whatprovides /usr/bin/startx    (or the yum equivalent if that is what CentOS uses)
>
> and then make sure it is installed.

.

I was not able to do dnf/yum anything 
because Centos 7.2 could not fine my 
ethernet port.

Someone off-list suggested I look at 
"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interfacename>, 
it should be ONBOOT=yes." The default in 
everything Centos that I had downloaded 
recently was ONBOOT=no! Once that was 
fixed I was able to collect the needed 
files to make a usable system.

The original DVD download was 4+ GB but 
was missing things like the GNOME 
Desktop which I thought odd, I expected 
it to at least provide a typical basic 
system?

I have it working now with xfce, still a 
project under work but I have gained a 
lot of familiarity with virtualbox as a 
result, my objective in this exercise, 
so it's not a loss.

Thanks,

Bob

[Markku Kolkka]

23.12.2015, 17:01, Bob Goodwin kirjoitti:
> The original DVD download was 4+ GB but was missing things like the
> GNOME Desktop which I thought odd, I expected it to at least provide a
> typical basic system?

Those "things" aren't missing, you simply didn't choose to install them.
The installer can't read your thoughts on what constitutes a "typical
basic system", you need to tell it what kind of setup you want.