Hi Mr. Widmann and Mr Braun, Thanks for your responses, sorry my reply has been slow. I'll try out your distro during the week Mr. Widmann, I ran out of cap last month :S. The Read Me I was referring to was both of the Read Me's on the Sage download site. I can't remember which one I'm afraid.
As to the *.ovf, I got that by extracting the *.ova file, some old instructions I found on google told me to do that :S I'm now using the OVA's as supplied. In the *.ova, I had er... Sage 4.7.1, the problem still persists, some how the network settings were broken when I played around with the VM router File > Preferrences (Ctrl+G) > Network > Virtual Box Adapter (Select) > Edit (Space) > make changes applicable to your system. The network settings for the VM as per Mr. Braun's instructions are also to do with it. Since My last e-mail and your replies I got the 4.7.2 ova and the problem seems to have fixed itself I also installed an Open SUSE VM to check I could get the network working with the VM and this seemed to work fine, both using NAT and the Bridged adaptor. Yesterday when I took the PC to another network, that broke the sage VM again. I fixed it this time by deleting the VM and re-importing, you loose your files that way but it atleast gets you running again. I believe the problem is with virtualbox and not the distribution, so thank you for your time spent helping me. I'll keep pocking around a bit, If I find anything that may be of use to some one who reads this mailing list then I'll reply here again, mostly because I've seen this question asked a few times on the web but it's seldomly replied to/solved. regards, Carel On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you see the "Error: Unable to locate IOAPIC for GIO..." error during > boot you don't have to do anything. The linux kernel in the VM will simply > not use IOAPIC and everything will work fine. > > I'm very confused how you get a second virtual ethernet device. In my > virtual machine there is only one virtual network adapter enabled. Are you > sure you didn't accidentally enable a second adapter? See > Settings->Network->Adapter N for N>=2 > > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
