Suse 10.2 Guest

frankjg · Post by **frankjg** » 5. Jun 2007, 04:08

I have tried all the Guest formats which are supplied but Suse always lockups during the install. Never at the same point.

Suggestions?

Thanks

Frank

Cogar · Post by **Cogar** » 5. Jun 2007, 06:34

What is your host OS?

For the record, an openSUSE 10.2 guest installed and worked fine on a Windows XP Pro host for me. Although I do not claim these to be "optimal" settings, the settings on my guest machine are:

OS Type: Linux 2.6
Base Memory: 384MB (I later increased this to 512MB. Both settings worked fine.)
Video Memory: 8 MB
ACPI: Enabled
IO APIC: Disabled
Hard Disk = 7.81 GB

frankjg · Post by **frankjg** » 5. Jun 2007, 17:13

The system where Suse 10.2 failed to install is a
HP Media Machine with duo 64 x 5000 CPUs
2 Gb memory
Win XP Pro (media version)
VirtualBox 1.3.8

I got out my HP Laptop with XP Pro, 1.6 Gb Cpu and 2 Gb memory and Suse 10.2 installed on VirtualBox 1.3.8 faultlessly.

The problem appears top be the HP Media machine for I have VMware Workstation installed on it and Suse installed just fine.

But Vista and Ubuntu also installed under VirtualBox 1.3.8 without any trouble on the HP Machine.

So it appears my Media Machine does not meet the requirements of VirtualBox 1.3.8.

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frankjg · Post by **frankjg** » 5. Jun 2007, 23:32

Got it work mostly. Trouble was stalling of the loading of Suse. This time, I clicked on reset in the VirtualBox menu at each stall and it finally completed/

Now I have one problem left.

When I try to install the Additions I receive the following error message.

"Please install the Build and Header files for your current Linux kernel.

The current kernel version is 2.6.18.2-34-default."

It appears the Addition files in VirtualBox do not agree with Suse kernel.

Suggestions?

Thanks

Post by **bodhi.zazen** » 5. Jun 2007, 23:48

You need to first install linux-sources and gcc on the suse guest.

Then install the addons

frankjg · Post by **frankjg** » 6. Jun 2007, 15:45

I am very new to Linus. Do I get these files from a online source. I believe their called repositories?

Thanks

frankjg · Post by **frankjg** » 6. Jun 2007, 16:23

I found the package and downloaded them but when it came to installing them I received the following error message.

Please insert openSUSE-CDdownload (Media source cd///? devices=/dev/hdc does not contain the desired media) on media 4

I tried each of the 5 SUSE disk but I received the same error message.

I do not understand the error message.

Thanks

Cogar · Post by **Cogar** » 9. Jun 2007, 15:48

With openSUSE 10.2, use YaST to install (or confirm that you have already installed) the following packages:

Xalan-c
Xerces-c
compat-libstdc++

Incidentally, if you do not normally install packages from source, you will probably also need to add:

All other libstdc++ packages (packages with libstdc++ in their names--there are 4-5 of them)
qt3
SDL
kernel-source
kernel-syms