Virtual Box

Turn on auto admin logon on virtual machines

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16 years
by in Tips, Virtual Box, Windows

I have never been a fan of auto logon instead of security but on virtual machines protected by a front end password it seems to make sense.

To Activate auto logon on Windows XP after enabling multiple accounts use regedt32 to navigate the registry to the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MicrosoftWindows\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Set or create the string keys
DefaultUserName to the desired user name
Set or create the DWORD key
AutoAdminLogon to the value 1

Installing Fedora 12 on virtual box

402
16 years
by in Linux, Tips, Virtual Box

Ensure you have enough memory to run the install fedora 12 to hard disk. 384mb was not enough to run the graphical installer.
Run the install as root su -
To install the VirtualBox Additions ensure you have the development build stuff. yum install patch binutils make automake autoconf gcc kernel-devel dkms
Set the KERN_DIR which is the error repported in the //var//log//vboxadd-install.log log file
export KERN_DIR=//usr//src/kernels//2.6.32.10-90.fc12.i686
The run the vbox additions appropriate for your environment.
cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_3.1.2_56127
./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

However I kept experiencing this not actually working despite following all instructions. I eventually found that the symbolic link to the fedora release was incorrect in /lib/build/????
a problem with modprobe failing to build. This turned out that //lib//modules/2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686//build is a symbolic link that was incorrectly linked to //usr//src/kernels//2.6.32.10-90.fc12.i686
and correcting that link allowed the kernel to build.
Finally ensure you are up to date with all security patches and fixes by running yum update
I then needed to reboot reboot

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