ok im new to linux....... like i started playing with it 3 days ago. my boss asked me to take a look at ubuntu 9.04 server and have a play with the KVM software while he was away. and i found a thread on your site http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-kvm-on-ubuntu-9.04 and it explains everything. so i have installed it and run the tests to see if the machine i am using can indeed run the kvm, and it can so that is all sweet. i get upto the part where it tells me to type "vi /etc/network/interfaces" and i get the screen sugessted. and i start to modify it so eth0 can act like a bridge for multiple VMs. after trying that i notice i have made a huge mess of it and have no idea how to exit or undo anything i have done. and im worried that if i just hit the reset button i will screw something up. is there any advice any1 can give me to work around this problem?? cheers brendon
Hi; I am fairly new to linux too but I never like to use vi editor! I know those who use it love it and wont use anything else but I just have too much problems with it so I use pico (nano). if you typed pico and it didnt come up do ; apt-get install nano then instead of vi use pico to exit vi you can hold the shift down and hit Z twice it will Not save the changes. pico is much like the old DOS editor, you make changes and do a control x to exit and type y to save changes n for no. oh BTW in vi you have to hit the Esc key and A for alphabet (to write using the regular keys). hit Escape again and it goes back in the non-alphabet mode. so if shift-Z put a Z in your document hit escape first. lol
hey matey nano is awesome!!!!!!!! even if it did take me 4 goes to get it right but i have a new problem now i made it all the way to when you create the VM, (vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite=intrepid --flavour=virtual --arch=amd64 --mirror=http://192.168.0.100:9999/ubuntu -o --libvirt=qemu:///system --tmpfs=- --ip=192.168.0.101 --part=vmbuilder.partition --templates=mytemplates --user=administrator --name=Administrator --pass=howtoforge --addpkg=vim-nox --addpkg=unattended-upgrades --addpkg=acpid --firstboot=boot.sh --mem=256 --hostname=vm1 --bridge=br0) i modified it a lil bit so i wouldnt have to use the proxy cos it confused the hell out of me no now it looks like; vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite=intrepid --flavour=virtual --arch=amd64 --libvirt=qemu:///system --tmpfs=- --ip=192.168.0.101 --part=vmbuilder.partition --templates=mytemplates --user=administrator --name=Administrator --pass=howtoforge --addpkg=vim-nox --addpkg=unattended-upgrades --addpkg=acpid --firstboot=boot.sh --mem=256 --hostname=vm1 --bridge=br0 i basicly just got rid of the mirror so it would get what it needed via the default mirror. so i hit the enter button and watched my VM begin to emerge, but it stoped and i got an error saying "name error: global name '0xFFFF' is not defined" any ideas on what may have happend for it to get this error? cheers brendon
ok i think i fixed it im not sure, but im excited basicly i added --mask 255.255.255.0 after the --ipxxx.xx.xx.xx (the ip for my guest VM) then i had to change arch = amd64 because i had it wrong its supposed to be arch=amd64, without spaces. the os is installing now and im hoping to se a new vm very soon
