CowboyRedBeard Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Looking to check out a mining software platform that is in .img format. This is meant to be burned to a USB, but wondering if I can boot it in a VM under unraid? The OS they used is Ubuntu. I point the drive to it in the settings, but it goes to uefi shell every time?? Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 create a new ubuntu vm using seabios instead of ovmf. Quote Link to comment
CowboyRedBeard Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) What would the "machine type" be? I want to boot the VM under that .img every time, it's like a "live CD" image. I had seen that thread you linked, but I got a little lost in there. QEMU isn't something I'm very familiar with. Edited December 13, 2017 by CowboyRedBeard Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Whatever the default is for Ubuntu vm for machine type. selext the img file as the primary disk and it will use that. i didn’t link anything, that’s just in my sig. Quote Link to comment
CowboyRedBeard Posted December 15, 2017 Author Share Posted December 15, 2017 So I set it up same machine type as my working Ubuntu VM, then pointed the drive location to the .img file... and I get the following error: Execution error internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2017-12-15T18:50:41.743300Z qemu-system-x86_64: cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram': Cannot allocate memory Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted December 15, 2017 Share Posted December 15, 2017 so... you're out of ram? Quote Link to comment
CowboyRedBeard Posted December 16, 2017 Author Share Posted December 16, 2017 Well.... I had 3G left and was only allocating 1G to this box just to see if I could get it to boot. So I shut down a different VM and when 6G free, and 2G allocated to this box it would launch, but then I get UEFI shell. Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted December 16, 2017 Share Posted December 16, 2017 On 12/13/2017 at 4:53 PM, 1812 said: ...seabios instead of ovmf. Quote Link to comment
CowboyRedBeard Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Ok that got it to boot, but then it hangs at a screen like the attached. Thanks for all the help so far, maybe this just doesn't work... But seems like there should be a way. This is what I'm trying to run: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1854250.0 The file they give you is a USB drive image. When it boots it does go to a blank Ubuntu purple color screen, then to the attached. Maybe it doesn't like the drive type or something? Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 hard to say. i've never run a mining program. Quote Link to comment
CowboyRedBeard Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 It's a customized version of Ubuntu... I'm sure it's not booting due to something it doesn't like about the qemu settings. I'm just not sure how to figure out what that is. Quote Link to comment
1812 Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 8 hours ago, CowboyRedBeard said: It's a customized version of Ubuntu... I'm sure it's not booting due to something it doesn't like about the qemu settings. I'm just not sure how to figure out what that is. I downloaded the image and got it booted. You can use either a linux or ubuntu template, set bios to Seabios, and under primary disk select the .img file and change bus type to USB. I didn't log in to the os, so I don't know what other adventures await you. Quote Link to comment
killeriq Posted March 28, 2018 Share Posted March 28, 2018 Been looking for the same for "CHOSN" seems like its working! Spend some time trying to convert IMG to ISO - been thinking to use the IMG directly (but stayed just with that ) Sadly the IOMMU Groups on my board (Asus Crosshair Hero VI) are able only to add 2 cards Thanks a lot Quote Link to comment
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