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10-11-2009	#1 (permalink)
portia Just Joined! Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 97	virtualbox Hi, I installed four virtual box packages from slackbuilds for Slackware 13 (fluxbox): virtualbox-kernel, virtualbox-kernel-add, virtualbox-ose, virtualbox-ose-addons. I remember that during the installation I had to create virtualbox user and group. Now having installed it, how can I run it? I can't see it anywhere. I try to press 'v' and TAB to see if there are any programs like that in my path, but nothing. Do I need to point lilo to boot virtual-box kernel to run virtualbox? If so, how would I do it? Can I have a choice which kernel to boot as it is in grub? Thanks in advance and do appreciate your help.

10-11-2009	#2 (permalink)
Freston Linux Engineer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 827	Heh, you are soo close VirtualBox is with a capital 'V', try that and pressing [tab] And no, you don't need to be in lilo for anything. __________________ Can't tell an OS by it's GUI

10-11-2009	#3 (permalink)
portia Just Joined! Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 97	OMG thanks.

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portia

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VB actually starts normally but I get the following error:

Code:

bash-3.1$ VirtualBox
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (2.6.29.6-smp) or it failed to
         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

           sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.

When I try to execute /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup it says that there's no such file/directory.

10-11-2009	#5 (permalink)
Freston Linux Engineer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 827	Ah, indeed... Slackware uses the BSD style init, so you're looking for: Code: /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv setup __________________ Can't tell an OS by it's GUI

10-11-2009	#6 (permalink)
portia Just Joined! Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 97	Thanks, I forgot about it. I went to /etc/rc.d changed the permissions +x and: Code: bash-3.1# ./rc.vboxdrv setup Not implemented! Please use the virtualbox-kernel.SlackBuild available at SlackBuilds.org instead.

10-11-2009	#7 (permalink)
Freston Linux Engineer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 827	Hmmm, I'm not fully sure Maybe this is of some use? I compiled VB from source, which was some work, but what you ran into seems a slackbuilds peculiarity... __________________ Can't tell an OS by it's GUI

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portia

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Thanks,
I have virtualbox-kernel installed from slackbuilds. I don't understand it. Am I supposed to do anything with this kernel? All the necessary modules seem to be loaded:

Quote:

VirtualBox kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are loaded.

10-11-2009	#9 (permalink)
Freston Linux Engineer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 827	And if you just try your luck with: Code: /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv start __________________ Can't tell an OS by it's GUI

10-11-2009	#10 (permalink)
portia Just Joined! Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 97	I can run vboxdrv start/restart without any problems. It's just everytime I start VB I encounter this error that I need to run vboxdrv setup. I also removed all virtualbox-*-addons packages. Apparently they're not supposed to be on the host system. I'm installing now Ubuntu 9.10 alpha in VB to see how it looks like. The CLI installer screens draw rather slowly.

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