07-27-2015, 07:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-27-2015, 07:36 PM by torreydale.)
@paul1149,
By the way, if you're going to use VirtualBox, they had an update to version 5.0 this month. According to the release, this update should make the drag and drop features work better. I didn't notice that over the weekend. But reading the documentation today, it appears I need to update the VirtualBox Guest Additions for drag and drop to work as planned with the new version 5.0 of VirtualBox. I'll try that later tonight.
My time wasn't totally wasted, though. In my difficulty trying to get drag and drop to work properly, I got really good at creating shared folders.
P.S. Using a VM to create the images is a good idea. But testing the Systemback image with a VM wasn't successful for me over the weekend. I had to boot to the image using real hardware. When I tried booting to the Systemback image in Virtualbox, I got to the Linux Lite splash screen and then the display just went black. This happened on my 32bit and 64bit images.
I may try booting to them using VMware Player for Linux to make sure it wasn't just a VirtualBox fluke. Then again, maybe after I update Virtualbox guest additions on my images, they'll boot up in Virtualbox.
Lastly, when creating the image using a VM, make sure to give your virtual hard disk enough space to hold the *.sblive and the *.iso files that Systemback creates. I didn't do this, but again, I learned to get good at virtual hard disk expansion and partition resizing as a result. To save you the trouble, I would say to give your virtual hard disk the capacity to dynamically grow to no less than 15-20GB. The default in VirtualBox is only 8GB.
By the way, if you're going to use VirtualBox, they had an update to version 5.0 this month. According to the release, this update should make the drag and drop features work better. I didn't notice that over the weekend. But reading the documentation today, it appears I need to update the VirtualBox Guest Additions for drag and drop to work as planned with the new version 5.0 of VirtualBox. I'll try that later tonight.
My time wasn't totally wasted, though. In my difficulty trying to get drag and drop to work properly, I got really good at creating shared folders.
P.S. Using a VM to create the images is a good idea. But testing the Systemback image with a VM wasn't successful for me over the weekend. I had to boot to the image using real hardware. When I tried booting to the Systemback image in Virtualbox, I got to the Linux Lite splash screen and then the display just went black. This happened on my 32bit and 64bit images.
I may try booting to them using VMware Player for Linux to make sure it wasn't just a VirtualBox fluke. Then again, maybe after I update Virtualbox guest additions on my images, they'll boot up in Virtualbox.
Lastly, when creating the image using a VM, make sure to give your virtual hard disk enough space to hold the *.sblive and the *.iso files that Systemback creates. I didn't do this, but again, I learned to get good at virtual hard disk expansion and partition resizing as a result. To save you the trouble, I would say to give your virtual hard disk the capacity to dynamically grow to no less than 15-20GB. The default in VirtualBox is only 8GB.
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