No bootable Medium at VirtualBox 7

[19newbie87]

No bootable Medium at VirtualBox 7

[enoch85]

We raised the minimum version in later versions of the VM. Don't know the latest version of Virtualbox, but please try to mount it in latest VMware player, it's free: https://www.vmware.com/se/products/workstation-player/workstation-player-evaluation.html

[19newbie87]

I use the latst Version of VirtualBox. I use virtualbox for some years... for me is that not a real solution. I will need to migrate my virtual disks vom VirtualBox to VMware, this is not possible. Only if i will buy some Terabyte of HDD.

[19newbie87]

What is the solution for virtual Box now?

In conclusion. I bought last year your Nextcloud, first the version for Hyper V. But for my solution, I needed a stable and highly available shared folder with the windows host. Further a special network set up. Because of that I bought your Solution for virtual box.

After that I paid again extra money for the major update, because the automatic updates didn't work (the automatic updater was installed). After that, the php upgrade does not work: see here:

Now, I paid again for the newest version, because of the PHP Version... now you would not help me, why?

[19newbie87]

We raised the minimum version in later versions of the VM. Don't know the latest version of Virtualbox, but please try to mount it in latest VMware player, it's free: https://www.vmware.com/se/products/workstation-player/workstation-player-evaluation.html

By the way, i tested: booting with VMWare is possible.

[enoch85]

We don't develop on VirtualBox, we develop on VMware. Also, please read the docs: https://docs.hanssonit.se/s/W6fMouPiqQz3_Mog/virtual-machines-vm/d/W7Du9uPiqQz3_Mr1/nextcloud-vm-machine-configuration?currentPageId=bhjtk3ahv0jgro7odn50

It should be compatible, but we also got several reports about bugs like this.

If (or when) I have time, I will install this on VirtualBox myself just to see. Until then, try extracting the .vmdk one by one and import it manually - disk by disk.

[19newbie87]

Hello, the best solution for me would be a shared folder with the host. When I enable shared folder in the VMware options, no shared folder will be mounted on Ubuntu...

I installed Gnome, only to show the problem:

At virtual box was never a problem with a shared folder ... this is all i Want. A stable and highly available shared folder...

[enoch85]

Mount it as NFS or something instead... That's also an option. I never worked with shared folders before so I don't know how they work.

[19newbie87]

After three weeks, here is the solution for a stable shared Folder:

If you want them mounted on startup, update /etc/fstab with the following:

Software requirements:

sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop

and

sudo apt-get install build-essential module-assistant \ linux-headers-virtual linux-image-virtual && dpkg-reconfigure open-vm-tools

next, update fstab:

# Use shared folders between VMWare guest and host
.host:/    /mnt/hgfs/    fuse.vmhgfs-fuse    defaults,allow_other,uid=1000     0    0

Source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/29284/how-do-i-mount-shared-folders-in-ubuntu-using-vmware-tools?answertab=createdasc#tab-top

[enoch85]

Thanks! Will add it in the docs. 👍🏼