I want to create a VirtualBox VM for Fedora to run on an Ubuntu system.
I am trying to debug a TLS problem with connectivity to an API server I need to connect to. This connectivity is made through a Python-2.7 library that calls the requests
library. This connectivity has failed on two different versions of Ubuntu. I want to see if it would work on Fedora - on the other hand, this test wouldn't prove anything if the guest Fedora VM is relying on the host's ssl code. I just don't know. Am I wasting my time on this?
Be that at may, I can't even get a bootable USB drive for Fedora. I downloaded Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-28-1.1.iso
and then burnt it to the USB stick (after formatting) with the command
sudo dd if=~/Downloads/Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-28-1.1.iso of=/dev/sdb1
This supposedly succeeded, but when I tried to build a VM booting from this, the screen started to show but soon developed into graphical mush. I also tried to boot from the USB stick. I restarted the computer, pressed F12, chose the USB stick. The computer spun for a few seconds, then gave up and returned me to the choose boot device screen.
So two questions:
- Will a python app using requests library use the Fedora guest's networking code or the Ubuntu host's?
- Why won't Fedora boot off the USB stick?
Update: Issue 2 is answered. The dd command was wrong. Still not sure about Issue 1. I am going to open another issue about the installation into the virtual machine.
dd
command actually wrote all of the image before working with the USB stick?dd
writes to USB sticks very fast and returns, but the actual physical writing is not finished. I install Fedora from so burned images all the time, as long as you wait long enough for all data to be written, it works. – ajeh May 8 '18 at 20:42.iso
file to it, and boot from there? – ErikF May 8 '18 at 20:47