On Saturday 17 May 2008 18:35:19 John wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2008 17:15:03 Rajko M. wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2008 10:38:57 am John wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2008 15:57:41 Rajko M. wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2008 07:24:07 am John wrote:
This is what I'm reading right now: /usr/share/doc/packages/VirtualBox/UserManual.pdf
The VirtualBox here is 1.6.0, binary package from Sun.
-- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands.
Hi I've been reading it for 2days :)
John
So what you say about section Folder Sharing?
The filesystem vboxsf is part of guest additions that must be installed. The script to install them needs make, gcc and kernel-source installed. The iso image for guest additions will be mounted in running virtual 10.3 /media directory.
I'm running mandriva 2008-1 i586 as a guest on a suse 10.3 x64 host. There doesn't seem to be a problem installing the guest additions other than that an error message is generated. That relates to DKMS and didn't seem to matter as the additions are reported as being correctly installed later. I've since found a number of mandriva DKMS's relating to virtualbox and reinstalled the additions. It still reports no DKMS found but seems to install the additions.
What I'm not clear about is just what if anything has to be done with the shared folder on the host and exactly what mount instruction if any is needed on the guest. A straight mount instruction just generates a not found in fstab etc error message.
I don't have 10.3 in VBox, so I can't check right now. It will be there sometimes tomorrow, after test install of openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 and check how it works there. Now guest additions installer complains on missing kernel includes in Beta 2 kernels source, but since new beta is out, I have no interest to dig deeper this version. I have feeling that it will be the same with Beta 3; it looks like guest additions script has the same problem as nvidia installer script, due to kernel changes.
-- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands.
Hi Now I've installed the mandriva virtualbox dkms's and re installed the guest extensions all's ok. The mount command shown in the virtualbox manual for a shared folder is fine. Going on that the guest extensions have been installed correctly. Still no luck with USB. The problem there seems to be that vertical box isn't picking up that a usb device is connected. I tried mount usbfs but still no usb. The fix in the vb's user manual isn't available in suse 10.3. The udev rules file is over written on every update in any case. KDE's file search is still crap. It can't exclude directories from a search. 25mins later it tells me that no file contains devpath=/module/usbcore John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org