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

Tue Sep 20 20:48:40 BST 2011

Op 20-09-11 12:15, sleepless schreef:
> 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
To answer my own question, the problem has been caused by wrong 
parameters in the fstab mount.
So, indeed the procedure for Ubuntu->VM->Ubuntu is exact the same as 
Windows->VM->Ubuntu.
If you want to mount a ntfs drive in virtual Ubuntu the correct mount 
syntax on the master Ubuntu system should be like this:
UUID=01CC6EEE5C443EF0 /media/FOTO ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
If this drive is mounted in Virtual Ubuntu with sudo mount -t vboxsf 
F_DRIVE FOTO (see my former description) The drive is fully accessible 
in the virtual system and digikam can be used normal. No issues with 
copying files as was the case in Windows->VM->Ubuntu.

Good luck,
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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