On Saturday 07 February 2009 20:31:11 Anders Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 07 February 2009 17:14:24 Stan Goodman wrote:
Calling 'virtualbox' at a terminal does nothing. I do not find anything that looks like an executable for this program, so something seems to be missing.
Note that the executable is called VirtualBox, with a capital V and B
Besides two additional kernels of the same size as the default ("debug" and "trace"), there is another, much smaller "kernel" called virtualbox-ose-kmp- pae, and maybe that is what is missing. But if someone can confirm that, I would feel much easier in making the experiment. The descriptions of these files in the Software Manager are less helpful than usual.
Those aren't kernels, they are kernel modules (kmp = kernel module package) and you need to have the one installed that matches your running kernel.
The default module works. A bit of googling has established that one called
PEA is a physical address extension needed for HD address space larger than
4GB, which, at the moment, I will not need.
What threw me about the case of the executable file is that there are a
number of other related virtualbox files in all lower case, and I jumped at
the fallacious conclusion that the executable would be like that too. Mea
Culpa, some day I'll learn.
When the introductory screen came up, it informed me of that a new release
had been issued, v2.1.2. But I know that this is the release number of the
commercial version; are they saying that it has now been released as a
freebie?
I've made a virtual Win2k. When it comes up, it displays an error message: