[opensuse] Virtual box and usb error message
I've just installed the virtual box binary for suse 10.3 64bit I used yast. 1st time it just came up and went without doing anything. 2nd time it installed correctly and used my downloaded rpm. I've set up a virtual machine but haven't done anything with it yet other than set an iso as a dvd and enabled sound etc. Each time I click on the vm config part I get this message
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Could not load the Host USB Proxy Service (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND). The service might be not installed on the host computer.
Result Code: 0x00004005 Component: Host Interface: IHost {81729c26-1aec-46f5-b7c0-cc7364738fdb} Callee: IMachine {f95c0793-7737-49a1-85d9-6da81097173b}
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The binary should come with full usb support. Just what do I have to do to overcome this? John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 16 May 2008 11:46:47 am John wrote: ....
The binary should come with full usb support.
Just what do I have to do to overcome this?
John
Add in /etc/fstab usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 and when you need usb support mount usbfs or skip 'noauto' if you don't have problems with usb devices when usbfs is mounted. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 16 May 2008 11:46:47 am John wrote: ....
The binary should come with full usb support.
Just what do I have to do to overcome this?
John
Add in /etc/fstab usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 and when you need usb support mount usbfs
or skip 'noauto' if you don't have problems with usb devices when usbfs is mounted.
-- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. Thanks my fstab already contains that. To tidy things up can I create a shell
On Saturday 17 May 2008 00:56:07 Rajko M. wrote: script that will mount usbfs and then launch virtual box - hopefully returning to the shell script to unmount it when virtual box closes? I'm also having problems with the shared folder. I assume all I have to do is create it on the host, no sharing or anything else. I've just stuck it on my desktop. Just what mount statement do I need in the guest to be able to access it as any user? Also is there a script that could be changed to make this happen every time the guest launches. The guest in this case is mandriva i586 but maybe all distro's are likely to have something that could be changed. (fstab?) I wanted to look at a linux with a very recent kernel in it. I've added the guest extensions but get a can't find dkms (I think that's what it was.) error but the install is reported as being complete and ok. Afraid I've had to pick up so many os's in the past I've refrained from getting too acquainted with bash. It would make my head hurt. (even more) John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 16 May 2008 11:46:47 am John wrote: ....
The binary should come with full usb support.
Just what do I have to do to overcome this?
John
Add in /etc/fstab usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 and when you need usb support mount usbfs
or skip 'noauto' if you don't have problems with usb devices when usbfs is mounted.
-- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. Thanks my fstab already contains that. To tidy things up can I create a shell
On Saturday 17 May 2008 00:56:07 Rajko M. wrote: script that will mount usbfs and then launch virtual box - hopefully returning to the shell script to unmount it when virtual box closes? I'm also having problems with the shared folder. I assume all I have to do is create it on the host, no sharing or anything else. I've just stuck it on my desktop. Just what mount statement do I need in the guest to be able to access it as any user? Also is there a script that could be changed to make this happen every time the guest launches. The guest in this case is mandriva i586 but maybe all distro's are likely to have something that could be changed. (fstab?) I wanted to look at a linux with a very recent kernel in it. I've added the guest extensions but get a can't find dkms (I think that's what it was.) error but the install is reported as being complete and ok. Afraid I've had to pick up so many os's in the past I've refrained from getting too acquainted with bash. It would make my head hurt. (even more) John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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.
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On Saturday 17 May 2008 12:35:19 pm John wrote:
What I'm not clear about is just what if anything has to be done with the shared folder on the host
Nothing. Just select it using VirtualBox GUI or command line.
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.
That is something about how Mandriva is using mount command. The vboxsf (shared folder), or maybe vboxfs (filesystem) has to be known to mount command. That was error here with openSUSE 11.0 Beta2. unknown file system. I would look into 'man mount' of Mandriva to see details, at least where file system module is expected to be, and where vbox guest additions installed it. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
On Saturday 17 May 2008 20:39:14 John wrote:
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
I now have the usb working it needs the following line added to suse 10.3 fstab (the host) none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=XXX,busmode=0775,devgid=XXX,devmode=0664 0 0 All on one line of course. The value for XXX can be obtained by grep vboxusers /etc/group in the console All I need now is how to automount the shared folder in the mandera guest. I suspect that this can be done in fstab but how? John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2008 20:39:14 John wrote:
John
I now have the usb working it needs the following line added to suse 10.3 fstab (the host)
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=XXX,busmode=0775,devgid=XXX,devmode=0664 0 0
All on one line of course.
The value for XXX can be obtained by grep vboxusers /etc/group in the console
All I need now is how to automount the shared folder in the mandera guest. I suspect that this can be done in fstab but how?
John
First create the share in the guest settings. Then create the mount point in the running guest. Next mount with: mount -t vboxvfs <share name> <mount point> In my case I created a share called storage and mount it with mount -t vboxvfs storage /storage Add an entry in /etc/fstab ( all on one line ) storage /storage vboxvfs rw And it should mount when you boot the VM. -- 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
John wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2008 20:39:14 John wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2008 18:35:19 John 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
On Saturday 17 May 2008 17:15:03 Rajko M. wrote: 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
I now have the usb working it needs the following line added to suse 10.3 fstab (the host)
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=XXX,busmode=0775,devgid=XXX,devmode=0664 0 0
All on one line of course.
The value for XXX can be obtained by grep vboxusers /etc/group in the console
All I need now is how to automount the shared folder in the mandera guest. I suspect that this can be done in fstab but how?
John
John, Where did you find the usb fstab information? I will give it a shot. When I was working on vbox usb, what I found was to set fstab to the following: usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto,mode=0664,gid=114 0 0 and then edit /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules and modify the usb rule: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}", MODE="0664" Looking at the differences in the fstab line, what does the first "none" verses "usbfs" mean or do? Next the difference with "auto" and "noauto"? I guess the "gid" in the fstab entry I found would serve for both the busgid and devgid in the entry you have. Thanks for posting what you found. I'll look at man fstab again and see if I can make sense of it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 18 May 2008 01:42:36 David C. Rankin wrote:
John wrote:
On Saturday 17 May 2008 20:39:14 John wrote:
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
I now have the usb working it needs the following line added to suse 10.3 fstab (the host)
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=XXX,busmode=0775,devgid=XXX,devmode=0664 0 0
All on one line of course.
The value for XXX can be obtained by grep vboxusers /etc/group in the console
All I need now is how to automount the shared folder in the mandera guest. I suspect that this can be done in fstab but how?
John
John,
Where did you find the usb fstab information? I will give it a shot. When I was working on vbox usb, what I found was to set fstab to the following:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto,mode=0664,gid=114 0 0
and then edit /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules and modify the usb rule:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}", MODE="0664"
Looking at the differences in the fstab line, what does the first "none" verses "usbfs" mean or do? Next the difference with "auto" and "noauto"? I guess the "gid" in the fstab entry I found would serve for both the busgid and devgid in the entry you have.
Thanks for posting what you found. I'll look at man fstab again and see if I can make sense of it.
-- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
:) As far as I'm concerned it's a mystical satanic incantation obtained from the vbox forum site under faq. It does work on 10.3 ia64 though and is the only change I've made. I looked at man too and am none the wiser. I'm still not happy about the change needed to cause the guest to auto load the shared folder. I feel that it should just need the correct line in the guest's fstab or some where else in it and nothing else. My initial difficulties where down to not installing mandriva's dkms's kernel modules. I can now manually mount the directory without any trouble at all. Silly me because the vbox user manual suggests that for mandriva and ubunto. <David. I chose mandriva by the way because of your earlier comments. Looks to me that they have learned their lesson well.> John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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