George Olson pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 09 August 2009 05:47:10 George Olson wrote:
Ok, I installed Virtualbox, through YaST, but now when I try to run it, the cursor just bounces up and down for a couple of minutes, and then nothing happens. Is there a way I can figure out how to make the interface come up?
Don't forget to load the kernel module with
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv start
as root. You probably want to set this to start on boot with
insserv vboxdrv
These two commands must be run as root. Afterwards, you can start VirtualBox as your regular user
Anders
Ok, question. I got virtualbox up and running (have to run from root even after doing the above).
Add the user to the vboxusers group and you will be able to start as non-root user.
I created a virtual disk image (expanding type), but it won't boot up.
It is like any "real" harddrive, you need to install an OS for it to boot.
Can I get it to point to my existing windows xp installation? Or do I have to install windows XP on my virtual machine, and then go ahead and reinstall any other windows program I want to use on that same machine?
I would rather, if possible, somehow get my virtual machine to use the existing Windows XP I already have installed, though I don't know if that will be possible.
Any help would be appreciated.
George Olson
It is possible although I have not tried it. According to the docs: (go to the help system from the Vbox manager window for all of the info) 9.10.2. Access to individual physical hard disk partitions This "raw partition support" is quite similar to the "full hard disk" access described above. However, in this case, any partitioning information will be stored inside the VMDK image, so you can e.g. install a different boot loader in the virtual hard disk without affecting the host's partitioning information. While the guest will be able to see all partitions that exist on the physical disk, access will be filtered in that reading from partitions for which no access is allowed the partitions will only yield zeroes, and all writes to them are ignored. To create a special image for raw partition support (which will contain a small amount of data, as already mentioned), on a Linux host, use the command VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /path/to/file.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1,5 -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org