On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 07:56, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
go more often to Windows, I looked into VirtualBox. Looks clear enough on vavai's web site and the VB site, but ...
Vavai says I absolutely _have_ to have the kernel-default. Using his instructions, I find I have kernel-desktop installed. So I look for instructions to change kernel.
VirtualBox works fine on kernel-desktop and kernel-default. You don't need to change the kernel.... I use VBox every day for my job, and it's a really rock solid solution to running multiple OSes on a single host. I use it in Seamless mode as well. I have WindowsXP, Vista, 7, RH, FC, Debian, Ubuntu, and various openSUSE VirtualBox guests installed. I've also experimented with Gentoo, FreeBSD and a few other Unix variations (OpenSolaris) using VirtualBox. I recommend it to everyone :-)
Try downloading the "All distributions" link for your architecture here:
Why this one? Why not the RPMs? VBox provides RPMs for 11.3 already... and they work just fine... click and install. No messing around.
Make sure you have the kernel sources install from yast2, then just run the executable run file. The kernel modules will be compiled and installed for you.
Same applies to the RPM... the kernel modules are built during the install. Basic steps: 1. Make sure you've got gcc, make and the kernel sources installed. 2. Download the RPM (or the .run) from the link Lew provided 3. Install the RPM (kernel modules will be built automatically as part of the install if your kernel sources, gcc and make are already installed on the host) 4. Add your use to the vboxusers group (use YaST). 5. Reboot. 6. Start VirtualBox 7. Setup and install Windows XP. Installing a guest OS is well documented on the VirtualBox website... it's actually dead easy and quite logical. 8. Install the guest additions in the guest OS. Tips: Tweak your WinXP Guest settings a bit before installing XP eg set the guest virtual ram high enough for XP (eg 1.5GB if you've got a 4GB host machine), bump up the virtual video card RAM if you can. Enable 2d and 3d support. These settings are all sliders and checkboxes in the VirtualBox profile that gets created when you add a new Guest OS. If you instal a new kernel or change the kernel on the host machine, you only need to run (as root) /etc/init/d/vboxdrv setup to rebuild the kernel modules and you're good to go again. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org