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5 Comments so far

1. TerryS on March 2nd, 2009

   Be sure to use the “Legacy Network Adapter” when assigning the virtual machine settings. Although the video shows this, it’s difficult to see (except in the HD feed).

2. Bob on July 13th, 2009

   So the only files you need are root.hdd and data.vhd (ie you can ignore the rest)?

3. Austin on July 14th, 2009

   Hi Bob,
   The JumpBox in this video example only had two disks. There are now a handful of JumpBoxes that contain three disks. You have to add all of the disks to the virtual machine. For instance, the DimDim JumpBox has an additional usr.hdd disk, you would have to rename that to usr.vhd and add that.

   Basically, any directory under “disks/” is a required disk for the JumpBox and must be added to any VM you create. If there is no native “vhd” file for a given disk, then it will be just like the root disk, there will be a vmdk and hdd file, the hdd file is the actual data file and should have the extension changed to vhd prior to being added.

   Austin

4. Rohan on August 20th, 2009

   Hi..

   I’ve followed through through to the letter, but I’m having trouble attaching the root.vhd file (renamed from root.hdd)

   I get an error saying that the file/folder is corrupt/unreadable.

   The data.vhd attaches just fine.

   The Downloaded Jumpbox runs fine on VMware Player, on my local PC.

   I’m trying to setup the Joomla Jumpbox
   I’ve tried 1.1.2, and 1.1.3 ones from your website.. no luck.

   The HyperV server is running several other VM’s.. both Windows, and Linux just fine.

   Any ideas?
   Something up with the Joomla one? (I’m about to go try Gallery, like you did in your video)

   Thanks,
   Rohan.

5. Austin on August 21st, 2009

   Hello Rohan,
   It seems that as of SP2 Hyper-V no longer accepts FIXED VHDs. I don’t know why they would pull that support but you can probably convert root.vhd to DYNAMIC as shown here:

   http://www.jumpbox.com/node/1609#comment-2207

   Austin