VirtualBox will not launch openSUSE 11.1

[acron1]

The title says it all. VirtualBox seems to have installed just fine BUT it will not start at all. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

[stefan.becker]

Start it an a Console, look exact at the error messages.

[vbox4me2]

To aleviate the solution "yast2 -i pam-devel" solved the missing libs

[Lawbayly]

I have similar problems, OpenSUSE 11.1 won't even install here, Graphical Installer, just shows a blank screen
If I tell it to do a text-based, It'll crash before the prompts with a
"Kernel Panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interupt" error

the VBox.log is coming up with a couple of :
"00:05:41.481 Guest Log: BIOS: int13_harddisk: function 41, ELDL out of range 8B" errors

[stefan.becker]

Post Infos. So nothing is to say. Host, Version, Hardware, exact Guest Settings, 32/64 Bit?

[pashda]

Seems like the original question from acron1 here is about OpenSuse as a host, not a guest. I had this similar probalem with 2.1.2 on openSuse11.1. In the end I tried :- login as root and start virtualbox to confirm the installation OK - worked fine from the icon in teh appplications menu. I then went back in as my user and tried from a command line. I put the error into google and found the solution was to "sudo chmod +x /var/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox" This worked a dream. Looked like teh 2.1.2 install had only made the file executable to the owner - root.

For Lawbayly whose problem does sound to be Suse client under virtualbox, I was having the same problem 2.1.0. Work around was to switch the Suse installer to Vesa mode at the first screen. Thats assuming you get this far. I havent been able to try an install in virtualbox 2.1.2 yet to see if the update has fixed the kernel panic.

For info, I run OpenSuse 11.1 as my base OS, with VirtualBox 2.1.2 now running under that. I used the i386 versions of both.
Hardware is simple Pent4 with 500GB HD and 3GB ram.

[veedee-Eyes]

I posted this question to the VirtualBox team in the last Webinar. Their simple answer was that it requires [VT-x/AMD-V Enabled].

I enabled it and the Virtual Machine work great
James

[areswargod03]

I had installed Xvm on OpenSuSE 11.1 and it was working wonderfully but yesterday it decided to stop working for whatever reason. I try to open it and all I get is a bouncing Xvm icon for a few moments but the program doesn't launch and I recieve no errors.

Anyone have an idea why this is happening now?
A solution would be greatly appreciated.

I just switched to linux from windows and would hate to have to resort back to windows because of a possibly simple solution that is above my level of knowlege at this moment.

[Sasquatch]

I had installed Xvm on OpenSuSE 11.1 and it was working wonderfully but yesterday it decided to stop working for whatever reason. I try to open it and all I get is a bouncing Xvm icon for a few moments but the program doesn't launch and I recieve no errors.

Anyone have an idea why this is happening now?
A solution would be greatly appreciated.

I just switched to linux from windows and would hate to have to resort back to windows because of a possibly simple solution that is above my level of knowlege at this moment.

It would help if you open a terminal and start VB from there. It should be VirtualBox that you need to run. Note the uppercase characters, Linux is case sensitive.

[vlad88sv]

I posted this question to the VirtualBox team in the last Webinar. Their simple answer was that it requires [VT-x/AMD-V Enabled].



I enabled it and the Virtual Machine work great

James

Thanks, this did the trick.