How to run Volumio in a virtual box

Diy and Tweaks
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As this question keeps popping up some very basic instructions, with very limited support.
If you decide to run Volumio in a VM, you agree to deal with some issues or not fully operational behavior.
This topic is just to show that it is possible.

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  • Boot VM with the life CD

  • Select 11 - Shell

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  • type lsblk to validate that the basic disc is pointing to /dev/sda

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  • type ipconfig to reveal the IP-Address
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  • type nc -l -p 1234 > /dev/sda
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  • on the computer with linux type: nc -w 3 <ip-address> 1234 < Volumio-3.396-2022-12-04-x86_amd64.img
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  • there is no progress bar, so wait until it is finished (you can see disk and network activity on the VM)

  • When finished, shutdown the VM

  • On Virtual box change, General => basic => Type = Linux, Version = Debian 10 Buster (64-bit)
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  • Change the network adapter, if you haven’t done it yet. (Settings => Network)
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  • Eject the Knoppix live CD

  • Start the VM and configure Volumio.

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and exposing usb audio…

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I am using the internal soundcard from my laptop, which seem to work fine.
It’s up to the community to play with it :smile:

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Would be great if someone shared the vdi file :kissing_smiling_eyes:
I tried following your steps but im still in trouble with the bridged network…
and the install fails on NAT network

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A vdi file will not solve your problem, you still need to configure it for your hardware.
Experiment with NAT/Bridge, Network cards, Adapters.
You will find one that works for you.
The hard part you have done.

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I managed to get the bridged network working.
Install is succesfull but now the vm won’t boot.

It freezes at the :
SYSLINUX 6.04…
Booting Volumio Audiophile Music Player, please wait…

Any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance !

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Unable to tell, did you fully complete the copy:
nc -w 3 <ip-address> 1234 < Volumio-3.396-2022-12-04-x86_amd64.img

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Mmh yeah,
Installed it twice on 2 VMs.
Updated to the latest version of Virtualbox 7
Installed the pack again…
Currently i downgraded VB again to 6.3 with no succes.

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At least you didn’t follow the instructions. Your image is set to debian, instead of debian 10 buster.
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And change your dispaly settings to:
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Tought about that so i upgraded to version 7 with the same result.
Ill update to the 7 again for testing.
Installation was made with Linux Mint VM.
Could it be because im running the Volumio VM on a win11 laptop that its jamming ?

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Please just follow the instructions as given.
I’m running Win11, so that is not a problem.
Not sure if VM to VM will do the trick. You just can boot your laptop with the Knoppix live CD, or
what I did, I used one of the Volumio boxes to do it.
Settings like the wrong distro and Video card is.

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It finally worked. Thanks for the help !
Turns out my wifi was the problem, connected server and client to eth cable en did all the steps again and no issues…

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hello to all. i have succeed to use volumio 3 on VM on ubuntu pc, also on this pc i’m running via VM FreeNAS. everything seems to be ok but sometimes i have a problem with Volumio software
During playing music i loose the music library from Volumio, i have discovered that My Music library from Sources it is empty. I can confirm that isn’t a problem from the NAS serve, because the access from my win10 laptop to this it is ok (alive). which can be the problem ?

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Seems that MPD stopped, if not, I can’t give support for this.
try:

sudo systemctl restart mpd
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ok, this is a moment solution not a long term fix. it is annoying to do this every day.

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If it happens daily, add it as a start script.
As shown Volumio can run in a VM, but not supported.

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I just downloaded and installed Volumio on VirtualBox and when running a netstat I can see there is no webserver running or listening. I cannot access the WebGUI at all?

Any ideas?

Thanks

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State
tcp        0      0 *:ssh                   *:*                     LISTEN
tcp        0    272 172.16.101.10:ssh       172.16.101.26:4850      ESTABLISHED
tcp6       0      0 [::]:ssh                [::]:*                  LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 [::]:6600               [::]:*                  LISTEN
udp        0      0 *:bootpc                *:*
udp        0      0 172.16.101.10:ntp       *:*
udp        0      0 localhost:ntp           *:*
udp        0      0 *:ntp                   *:*
udp        0      0 *:28572                 *:*
udp6       0      0 fe80::a00:27ff:fe88:ntp [::]:*
udp6       0      0 localhost:ntp           [::]:*
udp6       0      0 [::]:ntp                [::]:*
udp6       0      0 [::]:2871               [::]:*
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Seems you network configuration is wrong.

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Instructions seems to be still valid for the latest Volumio Image.

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That’s a cool use of the netcat command I didn’t know yet. But it implies that you boot up your VM first with a Live Linux (e.g. Knoppix) first. I went down the other way of the alley. Converting the volumios-image into a VMDK disk and use that as boot device for the VM while presenting another empty VDI or VMDK virtual disk image into the VM as writing target. That way you only need to download once and there is no need for another Live-Linux. Before volumio finally boots up for the second time the booting image device can be removed easily with the device manager of VirtualBox.