Installing Gargoyle on Virtualbox

[Spoonguard]

I am trying to install Gargoyle in Virtualbox in Ubuntu and have had no success in getting it working, nor can I find any useful documentation on how to set it up. My VM has x86 Backfire 10.03 installed.

This is what I have tried so far:

1) "Flashing" the Alix img from the web interface

This completes and reboots but leaves me with no working interfaces, which isn't particularly useful as a router. I assume this is because the Alix build has no support for the virtualised hardware. And I don't know how to mount a JFFS partition so I can't manipulate outside the VM.

2) opkg/ipkg from the kimikaze packages

This fails due to what I assume are dependency problems. Has the lastest version got packages complied for Backfire? And if so, where are they? I don't think going kimikaze is going to make this exercise useful for me.

Things I haven't tried:

Building a custom image from sources: my Ubuntu machine lacks many dependencies to do this it seems and I would rather avoid having to do this. I am a rank novice at this and I doubt I could do this without some guidance.

[DoesItMatter]

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/vi ... ?f=8&t=445

See that thread

Maybe Fric is still around and you can contact him/her?

[Spoonguard]

It would seem FRiC is still around and opines that Gargoyle on Alix is too brittle to useful.

I guess I will have to make my own build environment to find out that gargoyle is unsuitable for what I want to use it for.

Does anybody know anything about why there are opkg packages for Kamikaze and not for Backfire? Does anybody even know how to compile them?

[Eric]

Yeah, you're not going to get any interfaces in a virtual environment.

If you want to compile it, clone the git repo (See details at the bottom of the download section) on a linux box with dependencies necessary to compile OpenWrt. Then just cd into the repository and run "make alix", and it should build.

I'm very curious what problems FRiC has found -- there was an issue he had with white-listing a long while ago that I could never replicate. If there are other alix-specific problems with the latest releases (ideally ones I can replicate...) I'd really like to know about them.

[Spoonguard]

If you want to compile it, clone the git repo (See details at the bottom of the download section) on a linux box with dependencies necessary to compile OpenWrt. Then just cd into the repository and run "make alix", and it should build.

How is whatever I compile myself going to be different from the prebuilt images I have been using up to now, save for any hypothetical modifications I make to the source?

[Hannibal]

1) "Flashing" the Alix img from the web interface

This completes and reboots but leaves me with no working interfaces, which isn't particularly useful as a router. I assume this is because the Alix build has no support for the virtualised hardware. And I don't know how to mount a JFFS partition so I can't manipulate outside the VM.

i run into the same problems but directly on my alix ..
First Time i compiled the source copied it to my card and let my alix boot... nothing happens .. grub wasn't able to load openwrt. so i manualy extract all data from the jffs image and put it into an ext3.. edited grubconfig .. and take a second chance .. it runs! yeah .. but... with no working network interfaces.

then i rebuild whole image again as jffs .. first boot .. all seems okay.. with a big smile in my face i configured all needed things... turned it off .. turned it on... grub shows an error while loading system... shit

unfortunatly since this behaviour i had no time to try it again.

if you want you can try my last built(12.09. v1.3.5 backfire) which boots once .. because maybe ive only destroyed something with my chaotic configuring

[Spoonguard]

Thank you Hannibal. While I don't have much patience I do have some time.

[Eric]

Spoonguard: If, after cloning the repository you "checkout" a tag it should be exactly the same as the images available for download, e.g. "git checkout 1.3.5". If you build from the latest master branch, the latest updates/bugfixes will be included.