[Digikam-users] Fwd: how to digikam on VM: to quit or not to quit, Blood will tell, here is my solution

Tue Sep 20 15:15:19 BST 2011

Excuse me, may be you already say it, but how do you mount "drive" in virtualbox and what kind of OS did you try to virtualise ?

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Objet: Re: [Digikam-users] Fwd: how to digikam on VM: to quit or not to quit, Blood will tell, here is my solution

After I found a watertight method to run Virtual box on windows, I can 
see the advantages of testing in an virtual environment. But as starting 
windows (5 minutes) and quiting windows (installing update 1 from 7, do 
not shut down your computer) is not excactly a nice experience, I would 
like to do the same on Ubuntu. Supprisingly the procedure and the 
glitches is excacly the same. except for that the mounted drives in the 
virtual machine are locked. I can even not issue ¨ls¨ without sudo, and 
found yet not a way that it let me change rights.

Some smart person around to solve this for me?

TIA
Rinus

Op 09-09-11 13:02, Rinus Bakker schreef:
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> From: *Rinus Bakker* <sleeplessregulus at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sleeplessregulus at gmail.com>>
> Date: 2011/9/9
> Subject: how to digikam on VM: to quit or not to quit, Blood will 
> tell, here is my solution
> To: digikam-users at kde.org <mailto:digikam-users at kde.org>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> This "how to run digikam 2.0 on ubuntu 11.4 in Oracle Virtual Machine 
> 4.1.2 on windows 7 running on an amd 64 laptop" is build upon a setup 
> where digikam db is on an internal harddisk and the photo collection 
> is on external usb harddrive and no networking involved.
>
> I did successfully repeat the procedure on a 32 bit desktop computer.
>
> I needed to make a few minor additions to my former suggestions to 
> prevent from some likely to happen  issues.
>
> I would like to hear if this procedure works for others too on 
> different setups, other distro's, other versiones, other machines and 
> so on.
>
> If someone has an other setup that works great, with network share or 
> whatever I would like to have a detailed explanation. All my efforts 
> via that route have failed.
>
>
> One issue I could not resolve sofar. There is something wrong with 
> copying files either in digikam or in nautilus. Some times it works, 
> some times it result in zero byte copies, sometimes there is an error 
> statement about slicing problem protocol error. It looks like it can 
> be done from command line or else outside the VM. On thw web you will 
> find questions about this issue but no answers, it is a common phenomenon.
> Else I have not encountered any problem sofar using digikam. In fact 
> it works quite well and is almost as responsive as in my usual setup 
> however there is some slowdown at read write activity.
>
> ######################################################
> MY PROCEDURE
> ######################################################
>
> Instal Oracle VM 4.1.2 using default options
> Install guest extensions mind to download corresponding version (4.1.2)
> (After download it is automatic opened by VM if you choose so.)
> go in VM to Management or Settings (or whatever it is called in 
> english)-> shared folder
> Point to the drive or folder you want to mount in Ubuntu
> Give the drive a short and simple name which differs from the name you 
> want it to have in Ubuntu and do not use special characters.
> (My F drive wil become /media/FOTO in Ubuntu, so I will not call it 
> FOTO but F_DRIVE,
> this way it is easy to recognise as my F drive without calling it FOTO)
> Mind NOT to choose "automount" (very important)
> (There is no need to make it a shared folder in windows, just leave it 
> as is)
> Select in VM "New" and follow instructions, give it a name "Ubuntu 
> 11.04", make the memory bigger if possible, at least 1000MB (or even 
> more if you have 2GB+ installed), point where to place it etc etc, 
> create, done.
> Click in VM on your new Ubuntu and the green arrow to start installation.
> Browse to the iso file you just downloaded
> Selcect download updates and instal third party software
> Choose "erase disk" (it is your new created vitual disk) and install
> Do not modify any config file. Do notting with fstab or mtab. Do 
> nothing with fuse. Do not use a mount manager. Do not install Samba.
> Just type in terminal:
> cd /
> cd media
> sudo mkdir FOTO
> sudo mount -t vboxsf F_DRIVE FOTO
>
> (This steps, without the mkdir command, you have to follow each time 
> you want to work in your VM,
> if someone knows how to automate it at startup, and you have verified 
> info, please share)
>
> type: nautilus, browse to /media and there you are.
> If you see foldernames within media with crosses in it, usually 
> starting with sf_ it's there because of formerly followed wrong 
> procedures and are no longer good for anything but confusion. It has 
> been created while trying to automount which failed and consequentely 
> prevent from decent manual mount.
>
> You may want to remove them
> type sudo nautilus and remove it, but be sure notting is mounted at 
> that time, else you may loose data.
> you can unmount your drives using umount.
>
> Now add Philip Johnsson's ppa to your sources
> launch synaptic
> install digikam 2 and kipi-plugins 2
> setup your digikam and go.
> Or if you have an existing dk installation on your machine.
> tell digikam where the db is and where the photos.
> It will reread everything, so thats going to take awhile.
> (If someone has any information how to reuse existing collection and 
> db in a new setup without rereading everything, please share your 
> knowledge)
> #####################################################################
> DONE
> ####################################################################
> If someone needs at certain point more specific information, just ask!
>
> Good luck!
> Have a nice day!
> Rinus
>
>
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