07-26-2015, 07:37 PM
Many thanks for your interest and comments Wirezfree. A few more details about what I did exactly just to clarify - sorry I was a bit sketchy with initial details of the Oracle VirtualBox set-ups I'd created.
I set up two VMs with win8.1 as guest in LL2.4 host:
1st one: guest installed in normal Legacy mode, USB 3.0 connectivity works fine (using v.5 of VBox), so extension pack installed, and file sharing with host, and guest takes up full-screen, so guest additions installed too. Works very well.
2nd one: out of curiosity, guest installed in UEFI mode (this option is offered for the 1st time in v.5 of Vbox). I am unable to install guest additions as I can't get past the 'UEFI Interactive Shell' screen, when I boot the guest (i.e. the screenshot at start of this thread) - this was crux of the problem that I needed help with on the thread.
I suspect installing guest in UEFI mode is only experimental at the moment as it's so new, and I can't find any useful information about this on the net, and what to do at the UEFI interactive shell step. Frankly, I only wanted to try the virtual UEFI install to see if it conferred any advantage over the standard Legacy/BIOS in a VM. The standard virtual Legacy install works just fine so will probably stay with that for now.
Regards
Mike
I set up two VMs with win8.1 as guest in LL2.4 host:
1st one: guest installed in normal Legacy mode, USB 3.0 connectivity works fine (using v.5 of VBox), so extension pack installed, and file sharing with host, and guest takes up full-screen, so guest additions installed too. Works very well.
2nd one: out of curiosity, guest installed in UEFI mode (this option is offered for the 1st time in v.5 of Vbox). I am unable to install guest additions as I can't get past the 'UEFI Interactive Shell' screen, when I boot the guest (i.e. the screenshot at start of this thread) - this was crux of the problem that I needed help with on the thread.
I suspect installing guest in UEFI mode is only experimental at the moment as it's so new, and I can't find any useful information about this on the net, and what to do at the UEFI interactive shell step. Frankly, I only wanted to try the virtual UEFI install to see if it conferred any advantage over the standard Legacy/BIOS in a VM. The standard virtual Legacy install works just fine so will probably stay with that for now.
Regards
Mike
64bit OS (32-bit on Samsung[i] netbook) installed in [i]Legacy mode on MBR-formatted SSDs (except pi which uses a micro SDHC card):
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ [email protected] - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ [email protected] - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom [email protected] - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel [email protected] - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work