Masim "Vavai" Sugianto wrote:

I'm writing VirtualBox installation tutorial for a reference.

http://vavai.net/2009/01/09/tutorial-virtualbox-on-opensuse-111-part-1/

I know there were too many article about VirtualBox installation how to. It's also describe on wiki but I keep writing as my reference and writing is my hobby :-)

Masim, Here are some of the virtualbox notes I have squirreled away. Add anything you need to your reference. Thanks: Installing Virtualbox i386 & x86_64 Pre-Install: (1) If you would like to take a look at the user manual before taking the plunge, grab it here: wget http://www.virtualbox.org/download/UserManual.pdf Install: (1) If vbox OSE, Remove vbox OSE. Software Management to remove OSE; or sudo rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep virtual) (2) Check/Install pam-devel sudo zypper in pam-devel For x86_64 installations, you must also install: libxalan-c.so.110 libxerces-c.so.27 (3) Download vb binary from the virtualbox web site for usb functionality wget http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_openSUSE103-... (4) Install vb sudo rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_openSUSE103-1.i586.rpm The kernel modules are automatically built by: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Post Install (1) 20:07 Rankin-P35a~> sudo modprobe vboxdrv (2) Edit your /etc/group file and add yourself to the vboxusers group or use Yast->Group Management to do the same thing. 20:14 Rankin-P35a~> grep vbox /etc/group vboxusers:x:113:david (3) Starting VirtualBox and Setting up your First Virtual Machine: (1) Start vb from: the start menu "System->Emulator->innotek VirtualBox" or; the commandline with "VirtualBox" (2) Create your first virstual machine by choosing "New" from the menu bar (3) Follow the prompts to allocate RAM and the virtual hard disk space for your guest OS. For windows XP as a guest OS 512M of RAM and 10G of virtual hard disk space is sufficient. (from a console, check your available ram with "free -tm" and disk free space with "df -h") Note: the RAM allocated is taken away from your Host OS (openSuSE) while the guest OS is running. So if your total RAM is 1G and you allocate 512M for your guest OS, that leaves you only 512M for your original host OS. Also Note: the virtual hard disk space is allocated by default under your home directory which places the virtual disk on your /home parition. This is a good thing since under the default openSuSE install your /home partition has the greatest amount of disk space. Laptop Note: by default vb assigns the "right control" key as the "hostkey" that is used to transfer keyboard and mouse control to and from the virtual machine when it is running. Many laptops do not have a "right control" key. In vb under File->Preferences, you can easily set the hostkey to the "right alt" key which is a good logical replacement. Installing Windowx XP as the guest OS: You can either install XP using the install cd or you can create and .iso file from the cd and mount the image as the cd drive for installing XP. The benifit of installing from the .iso image is that file transfer rates are much better than reading from the actual cd and allows the XP install to be completed in as little as 10 minutes instead of the usual 40-60 minutes. To create the iso, simply use dd. (example dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/win_install_disk.iso) You can then mount the iso directly as the cdrom seen by the gues machine. Installing XP is the same as the regular install: (1) Just pop the cd in your drive or select the .iso to mount as the cd drive. (2) Press "Start" to boot the guest os and start the install, continue as usual. (3) Configure Windows to your liking; Install VBoxGuestAdditions.iso which contains the additions that integrate the host and guest mouse and provide virtual display drivers that allow you to resize your guest window to virtually any size. The iso is located in: /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso Installing the VirtualBox "guest additions" (1) use the "Devices" menu to Mount CD/DVD-ROM and then navigate to and select the /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file. The installer will automatically run if you have autoload enabled, if not go the cdrom and run setup.exe (2) After the install has completed shutdown and restart your guest os and you will have all of the additional mouse/keyboard and display additions. (they are cool) If for some reason the driver install hangs on your hardware, just use the "Machine Menu" and "Reset" the guest os. The changes will take effect on restart. Thats it! I have been running virtualbox for a couple of days Quickbooks Pro works great. No rebooting ever just to get to the accounting software. A thanks to all that pointed me towards VirtualBox! Configuring openSuSE 10.3 for USB support in Virtualbox (1) 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" (2) Edit /etc/fstab and modify the usbfs entry as follows: usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto,mode=0664,gid=114 0 0 where gid=xxx is the gid from /etc/group vboxusers ********** Not My Notes ************* USB Issues, Install Binary: The Vbox manual says thus: "For SuSE 10.0 the mount command is part of the udev configuration file /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules. As this distribution has no user group called usb, you may e.g. use the vboxusers group which was created by the VirtualBox installer. Since group numbers are allocated dynamically, the following example uses 85 as a placeholder. Modify the line containing (a linebreak has been inserted to improve readability) 10.3 sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules DEVPATH="/module/usbcore", ACTION=="add",RUN+="/bin/mount -t usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb" and add the necessary options (make sure that everything is in a single line): DEVPATH="/module/usbcore", ACTION=="add",RUN+="/bin/mount -t usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb -o devgid=85,devmode=664" " The openSuSE guide says thus: " This update also reenables the deprecated CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS option for legacy applications. It is not necessary to recompile the kernel to use USB devices in VMWare and VirtualBox and other programs using the old /proc/bus/usb interface. You still need to mount /proc/bus/usb if required by doing: mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb or configuring it in /etc/fstab. The programs included in openSUSE 10.2 do not require this legacy interface. " Well, here's how I did it: The "mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb" command came back with: it was already mounted. So, I find that in Yast, that I cannot find the vboxusers gid. There are 2 ways (I know of) to find it: look in /etc/group or CODE cat /etc/group | grep vboxusers that returned "vboxusers:|:114:jim" Note: That's a dynamic number: your's will most likely/probably/should be different = look it up! Then, I use nano (or your favorite editor) CODE cd /etc nano fstab change: usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto 0 0 to: usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=114,devmode=664 0 0 Note: devgid=114 uses my number from above; don't use devmode=666 as that opens up a security hole in the system. Now I open VirtualBox. On the right window, click the usb button, click "Add" & my Maxtor usb HDD was detected & added. Now close out of everything & reboot to make it active (log out/in didn't work) Upon reboot, start VirtualBox, start winxp, sit and wait a little & it should detect the usb HDD and add it to Device Manager, wait about a 1/2 minute and the drive will pop up & be available in Explorer. Vbox with winxp should now be 100%. -- 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