VirtualBox v1.6.2 in OpenSUSE v11 (64bit) ???

s1oan · Post by **s1oan** » 20. Jun 2008, 10:13

Is there a RPM for OpenSUSE v11 (64bit) ???

I just installed the new openSUSE but i can only use VirtualBox OSE v1.5.6

Thanks in advance

Post by **frank** » 20. Jun 2008, 15:12

Try the openSUSE10.3 package. I don't see any reason why this should not work.

s1oan · Post by **s1oan** » 20. Jun 2008, 17:08

I tried it but I couldn't use it. I have windows xp as guest and it showed a BSOD while booting. That vdi was working perfectly with openSUSE 10.3 64bit and VirtualBox 1.6.2.

I forgot to mention that it's a fresh install of openSUSE using KDE 4.0.
The virtual machine has only one hard drive, one shared folder and one network adapter (no audio, cdrom, serial ports nor floppy)

I installed VirtualBox OSE v1.5.6 and it boots that vdi without problems using the same configuration.

Thanks for your help!

aemau · Post by **aemau** » 20. Jun 2008, 18:28

Check the setting for IDE controller type under General/
advanced. That may solve that problem. Now if I could only get usb working.

Allan

s1oan · Post by **s1oan** » 20. Jun 2008, 18:47

I uninstalled the OSE 1.5.6 version and tried 1.6.2 again... and it now boots!

Maybe there was a problem with some default setting and now it works because the XML was upgraded to 1.6.2

Thanks again for your help!

aemau · Post by **aemau** » 20. Jun 2008, 20:06

Does USB work?

Allan

Post by **frank** » 20. Jun 2008, 21:15

aemau ist right. For VirtualBox 1.5.x the PIIX3 was default. For VirtualBox 1.6.x, the default setting for the IDE controller is PIIX4 to improve compatibility with VMware images. Windows is very pity if the IDE controller of the boot partition changes.

s1oan · Post by **s1oan** » 20. Jun 2008, 22:40

x aemau : I tried the usb without success

There's more info of what I did on your thread.

longshot-nm · Post by **longshot-nm** » 21. Jun 2008, 03:24

In 11.0 usbfs is not mounted. You have to run mount -a as root or sudo inorder for usbfs to be mounted and your usb devices to be visiable to the vm.

Bug report was submitted to SuSE, but they said that usbfs was nolonger being used and that VB needed to change the way usb devices are seen by the VM.

aemau · Post by **aemau** » 22. Jun 2008, 02:34

I really don't think that's the answer. I have included a statement mount usbfs in my boot.local file. Examining /proc/bus/usb shows all kinds of devices present. And finally the settings/usb for my vdi files shows that VBox is recognizing the usb devices active on my system. But when I actually run the virtual machine and try to mount the devices I'm faced with a greyed out window where if I move the cursor over it reveals that each and every one of the devices is unavailable.

Or am I missing something.

aemau · Post by **aemau** » 22. Jun 2008, 16:25

It turns out that was indeed the answer. By including a "mount -a" statement in my /etc/init.d/boot.local file I was finally able to have my usb devices recognized. It remains a mystery as to why the usbfs wouldn't mount automatically from the info in my fstab file.

Allan