On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:50 AM, C
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 04:43, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
All,
This is my first effort to run VirtualBox.
I seem to have the basics going.
I'm trying to do a network install of 11.1 for now.
I downloaded the net install ISO.
When I start the new VM it asks for the location of the ISO and boots the CD.
I select that install option on the screen, and it says kernel loading.
After it loads, it gives me a warning that I don't have 32-bit color selected on my desktop.
When I say ok, it goes to a black screen and stays there (for at least several minutes.)
Am I doing something wrong. (FYI: I'm running the 2.6.36 kernel an vboxdrv module currently. I'm going backdown to the normal kernel and see if that helps.)
Thanks Greg
I reinstalled the kernel and modules from the official 11.3 repos.
Created a new VM and tried to install 11.1 network CD. Same behavior as before.
Is this supposed to work?
Yes, it's supposed to work.
First thing... VirtualBox isn't sensitive to Kernel versions like VMWare is. It runs fine even on the latest RCs. You can run the host on whatever kernel you want - just make sure to have either installed DKMS so it can auto-build the kernel modules on boot when the kernel changes, or manually build the kernel modules after a kernel change.
Ok the problem.... - What version of VirtualBox are you using? The one from the VBox website? or the openSUSE repos Did you install 4.0.0? or an older 3.x version?
I tried both 3.x and 4.0. 3.x from the standard 11.3 repos. The kernel and vboxdrv came from the standard repos. 4.0 I got by doing a zypper dup --from Tumbleweed. (see http://en.opensuse.org/Tumbleweed) Tumbleweed has a 2.6.36 kernel and includes vbox support modules / userspace I believe.
- When you defined the new VM, did you take default settings all along for your new VM?
Yes, except the i/o cache for the "virtual sata controller". When I went with default, vbox complained that it was not safe since my VM was hosted on a ext4 filesystem.
- How much virtual system RAM is defined for the VM? (vs real system RAM) I've found that the default it gives simply isn't enough (eg 128 or 256mb) to install openSUSE and have had to increase it to at least 1Mb.
My test machine is an older laptop with 1GB of ram. I allocated 512 MB for the VM. It was also the default.
- Did you tinker with the video settings? Have you gone into the VM video settings and tried maxing out the virtual video memory? (I always set it to 128Mb, and select Enable 3D Acceleration)
I stuck with defaults. I think both 2D and 3D acceleration was off.
- On your host... are you running in 24bit color depth? What real video card/driver?
I misstated the error. The complaint is that I am running 16-bit color depth and vbox wants 32-bit, and yes I am. With 11.3 I don't remember how to change that? (If it is the likely issue, I can go back through my notes.)
I've got multiple versions of openSUSE, and about a dozen other distros installed in VirtualBox and have never ran into an error like what you describe. It "just works" and works very well. I've never seen this error on booting/installing a VM.
11.3 host. I tried 11.1 / 11.2 / 11.3 all with the network installer. All fail shortly after the 16-bit graphic complaint. I also tried the 11.1 KDE live CD. Same issue.
C.
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