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

[sleepless]

Op 20-09-11 16:15, photonoxx at free.fr schreef:
> 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 ?
I setup Ununtu in VM on windows 7. the procedure is descibed below as

MY PROCEDURE

Now I am trying Ubuntu in VM on Ubuntu. Have some problem with 
fileaccess rights.
Rinus
>
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> De: sleepless<sleeplessregulus at hetnet.nl>
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> Envoyé: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:15:08 +0200 (CEST)
> 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:
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> 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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