[opensuse-factory] VMbox
I have been trying to get Tumbleweed under Oracle VirtualBox and I cant get it to work. It does not start KDE but ends un in the command prompt for user ID and password. I stick these in but still no KDE. I do a startx but it get a couple of pages of errors. Does anyone have this running successfully? My VirtualBox is at the latest level. The other possibilty is my system is running Windows 10 with the insider preview installed. Win 10 and the preview are also at the latest level. Until next week I will not have a system I can run Tumbleweed native as I am short of PC's at the moment. Thanks Andy gm1mqe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 2016-06-29 09:11, gm1mqe@aol.com wrote:
I have been trying to get Tumbleweed under Oracle VirtualBox and I cant get it to work. It does not start KDE but ends un in the command prompt for user ID and password. I stick these in but still no KDE. I do a startx but it get a couple of pages of errors.
Maybe those errors indicate what the problem is? Why not post them here? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
gm1mqe@aol.com [29.06.2016 09:11]:
I have been trying to get Tumbleweed under Oracle VirtualBox and I cant get it to work. It does not start KDE but ends un in the command prompt for user ID and password. I stick these in but still no KDE. I do a startx but it get a couple of pages of errors. Does anyone have this running successfully? My VirtualBox is at the latest level. The other possibilty is my system is running Windows 10 with the insider preview installed. Win 10 and the preview are also at the latest level. Until next week I will not have a system I can run Tumbleweed native as I am short of PC's at the moment.
Thanks Andy gm1mqe
Do you try startx as root or as user? For using startx as user, you should set set the suid bit on the X binary. You can use the command chmod 4755 /usr/bin/Xorg (run as root) or you can create a file containing the line /usr/bin/Xorg root:root 4755 inside the directory /etc/permissions.d/ and apply this by issuing chkstat --system (as root). HTH, Werner --
On 06/29/2016 05:47 AM, Werner Flamme wrote:
gm1mqe@aol.com [29.06.2016 09:11]:
I have been trying to get Tumbleweed under Oracle VirtualBox and I cant get it to work. It does not start KDE but ends un in the command prompt for user ID and password. I stick these in but still no KDE. I do a startx but it get a couple of pages of errors. Does anyone have this running successfully? My VirtualBox is at the latest level. The other possibilty is my system is running Windows 10 with the insider preview installed. Win 10 and the preview are also at the latest level. Until next week I will not have a system I can run Tumbleweed native as I am short of PC's at the moment.
Thanks Andy gm1mqe
Do you try startx as root or as user?
For using startx as user, you should set set the suid bit on the X binary. You can use the command
chmod 4755 /usr/bin/Xorg
(run as root) or you can create a file containing the line
/usr/bin/Xorg root:root 4755
inside the directory /etc/permissions.d/ and apply this by issuing
chkstat --system
(as root).
As the maintainer for VirtualBox, I maintain VMs for Tumbleweed Gnome and TW KDE for testing. These VMs have not been upgraded for the 20160625 snapshot due to all the problems associated with that release; however, both load fine with openSUSE 13.2 as the host machine. The only potential problem is that "NAT Network" does not work as that requires an additional program to have suid rights, and security is currently reviewing that request. All other features are working. As it seems that X is not starting correctly, please use the right CTRL and F1 keys to get to a terminal. Log in there and look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. That will give the reason for X failing to start. If possible, copy that to the host system or to a removable device, and post that for us to see. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
remove vboxdrv.so from xorg modules directory as it is not required, and it just interfere with normal work of VirtualBox. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On 06/29/2016 02:11 AM, gm1mqe@aol.com wrote:
I have been trying to get Tumbleweed under Oracle VirtualBox and I cant get it to work. It does not start KDE but ends un in the command prompt for user ID and password. I stick these in but still no KDE. I do a startx but it get a couple of pages of errors. Does anyone have this running successfully? My VirtualBox is at the latest level. The other possibilty is my system is running Windows 10 with the insider preview installed. Win 10 and the preview are also at the latest level. Until next week I will not have a system I can run Tumbleweed native as I am short of PC's at the moment.
As part of my test procedures for maintaining VirtualBox, I run both Gnome and KDE virtual machines with an openSUSE 13.2 host. What Tumbleweed snapshot did you install? The 20160626 release has many problems. Perhaps that is your problem. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
That is the version I have been trying. I will wait a bit until things get a bit more stable but I still suspect that using Windows 10 with the "Insider Preview" may be causing some funnies as I have been seeing some strange behaivour in other windows applications. Many thanks, Andy gm1mqe -----Original Message----- From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> To: gm1mqe <gm1mqe@aol.com>; opensuse-factory <opensuse-factory@opensuse.org> Sent: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:38 Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] VMbox On 06/29/2016 02:11 AM, gm1mqe@aol.com wrote:
I have been trying to get Tumbleweed under Oracle VirtualBox and I cant get it to work. It does not start KDE but ends un in the command prompt for user ID and password. I stick these in but still no KDE. I do a startx but it get a couple of pages of errors. Does anyone have this running successfully? My VirtualBox is at the latest level. The other possibilty is my system is running Windows 10 with the insider preview installed. Win 10 and the preview are also at the latest level. Until next week I will not have a system I can run Tumbleweed native as I am short of PC's at the moment.
As part of my test procedures for maintaining VirtualBox, I run both Gnome and KDE virtual machines with an openSUSE 13.2 host. What Tumbleweed snapshot did you install? The 20160626 release has many problems. Perhaps that is your problem. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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Werner Flamme