Howto run (what not to forget) your remaster in Virtualbox

[Texstar]

melodie

Hi,

That's precisely what happens to me each time, or almost. To run it in Virtualbox, we need the following packages installed in the version we want to make a live CD with:
x11-driver-video-vboxvideo
x11-driver-input-vboxmouse
dkms-vboxadd
dkms-vboxvfs

We also will need a  xorg.conf, for this the command to run is "X -configure", then "mv xorg.conf.new xorg.conf" then "mv xorg.conf /etc/X11"

This will be done by opening a new tty  with the keys : Ctrl+F2 or Ctrl+F3 and so on, and login as root.

This is the xorg.conf I have in the actual Virtualbox I am writing from:
http://pastebin.com/m29c3db79

For the keyboard in the console, I did : setxkbmap fr as root, and as user (change fr to your needs).

Smiley

[longtom]

Wow - this was straight over my head....

I can possibly install the missing files with synaptic, but how to create an xorg.conf and "setxkbmap fr as root, and as user (change fr to your needs)"  I really don't have a clue.

Could somebody translate this for the blunt knife in the kitchen drawer?

[kjpetrie]

Melodie is French, so she needs her system set to use a French (fr) keyboard, which has the keys coded (mapped) differently to a US (en_US) or UK (en_GB) keyboard. Texstar gave her the command to set that from a terminal, which needs to be done separately for every user - root, guest, whatever.

He also gave her the commands to set up xorg.conf, which is the configuration file for X, the GUI.

Does that help?