VBox vm running ubuntu-22.04 host ubuntu-21.10

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 at 01:50, hput via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> OS: ubuntu-21.10
>
> Couldn't think of a better subject line that was not too long.
>
> But what I am seeing seemed hard to convey in a few words.
>
> Built Vbox VM running ubuntu-22.04.  It crashed for unknown reasons
> some months later. . I'm not sure what brought it down just found it
> not running a few days ago.

But how? It's not out yet.

Don't run beta OSes unless you are an OS engineer. Don't run beta
anything unless you are an expert. Beta means it's not finished. If it
is not finished, it is not ready. Do not try to use things that aren't
ready yet.

Look, I am not being mean here. I *am* an expert. It's my job. *I* do
not run beta OSes. Life is much much too short.


> What is peculiar is that when I attempt to boot it.  It comes up with
> the normal grub menu but after hitting enter there is a longish pause
> and then it starts displaying the Xubuntu emblem with something spinning
> indicating it's busy..
>
> From there it sits with the Xubuntu logo and a spinning something
> ... eternally.
>
> I had nothing to do with Xubuntu so a bit floundered by there emblem
> showning up.

Presumably you installed something from Xubuntu and it pulled in
enough Xubuntu or XFCE dependencies that it changed the branding?

I don't know. I have not looked at 22.04 yet. I may do in April or
better still May but that's 3 months away yet. It's an unfinished
product and everything can change day to day.

> When it was working the Vbox vm was running zfs and had a 9 disk raidz2
> pool setup.

In a VM?!

What on earth for?!

> What things can I do to the naked OS if I were to mount it from the
> install media?

I have no idea. It's a totally open-ended question. I don't know what
you are able to do and I don't know what you did with the OS.

> I'd like to recover the vm since I spent a good bit of time getting
> it doing what I wanted done.

In 22.04? An OS that won't be released until 04 of 2022? That is what
the version number means.

Are you sure?

What did you do? Why are you building complex disk arrays in a
freeware desktop hypervisor? That seems a breathtakingly ill-advised
and foolish thing to do.

I asked recently on Reddit about doing something more modest than this
_in an enterprise hypervisor_   (VMware ESXi) and the experts there
told me "DO NOT TRY THIS" and told me it is totally the wrong way to
do this stuff and it 100% *will* break, the only question is when and
how.

(That was just importing a 4-disk RAIDZ.)



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