On Saturday 07 February 2009 22:34:22 Clive Rogers wrote:
Hi Stan,
On Saturday 07 February 2009 16:14:24 Stan Goodman wrote:
I've installed VirtualBox from YaST, specifically the packages: virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-guest-tools virtualbox-ose-kmp-default (This is the default kernel) xorg-x11-driver-virtualbox-ose (Mouse & Video driver)
Calling 'virtualbox' at a terminal does nothing. I do not find anything that looks like an executable for this program, so something seems to be missing.
Besides two additional kernels of the same size as the default ("debug" and "trace"), there is another, much smaller "kernel" called virtualbox-ose-kmp- pae, and maybe that is what is missing. But if someone can confirm that, I would feel much easier in making the experiment. The descriptions of these files in the Software Manager are less helpful than usual.
-- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel
I could not get the ose version of VirtualBox to behave itself so installed the version from here.
This installs easy. I only had to use Yast to make sure the default kernel was installed. Then used the Start Button/System/Emulator and VirtualBox is there.
You must also run this from the command line. /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Now you should be able to use VirtualBox
Oh, that's something new. If it's necessary, it's apparently meant to be a secret from users. I was able to get VB installed automatically; as you may have read, I was unable to run it afterward until I got the case right. But even now, it's unable to run the virtual Win2k that I made, because it can't find a boot drive (which appears to be yet another secret). It's late now, after midenight, but in the morning I will look to see if the setup file exists here.
-- Clive.
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