virtualbox

[portia]

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.

[Freston]

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.

[portia]

OMG
thanks.

[portia]

VB actually starts normally but I get the following error:

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.

[Freston]

Ah, indeed...

Slackware uses the BSD style init, so you're looking for:

/etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv setup

[portia]

Thanks, I forgot about it.

I went to /etc/rc.d changed the permissions +x and:

bash-3.1# ./rc.vboxdrv setup
Not implemented! Please use the virtualbox-kernel.SlackBuild available at SlackBuilds.org instead.

[Freston]

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...

[portia]

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:

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

[Freston]

And if you just try your luck with:

/etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv start

[portia]

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.