VirtualBox reviews 1

2007-04-03
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.oracle.com/virtualization/virtualbox/
https://www.virtualbox.org/ (direct downloads)



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2011-01-24 – 4.0.2 ∞

I came back to VirtualBox to play around with World of Warcraft again. It was not a success. Wine was spectacular in comparison.

This is the package I used, directly from Oracle. Installed with gdebi-gtk:

gdebi-gtk virtualbox-4.0_4.0.2-69518~Ubuntu~maverick_i386.deb

  • To get 2d/3d working, guest additions must first be installed.

    • Install the OS, then the guest additions, then go back into the setup and the checkboxes will be un-greyed.

  • To get VirtualBox working, I had to move everything and symlink its retarded defaults. It also does not respect some changes so I had to fix that too. These are the directories-turned-symlinks

~/.VirtualBox
~/VirtualBox VMs

raw access to an entire drive ∞

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename `pwd`/sda.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda
  • Their instructions are wrong.
  • Make sure you’re root, and launch virtualbox and attach the hard drive to your machine and run it as root. To do that, I had to replicate all my symlinks from /home/user into /root. Sigh.
  • World of Warcraft is fucking retardedly slow. Wine was WAY better.
  • By default, it is missing the models. It’s graphically fubar’ed
  • Wow can’t run with -opengl

  • No fucking way. Sigh.

2010-01-28 – 3.0.12 ∞

It’s in the Unity Linux repository. Yay!

I had a hell of a time setting up a hard drive which VirtualBox would actually use.. and in the end the Windows XP install CD couldn’t detect a disk drive. I gave up.

2009-07-10 – 3.0.2 r49928 ∞

Another claim that the clipboard has been fixed. We shall see.

I installed the PCLinuxOS 2007 build from the VirtualBox website.

2009-04-28 – 2.2.2 r46594 ∞

Installation
wget https://web.archive.org/web/20161104153958/http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.2.2/VirtualBox-2.2.2_46594_pclinuxos2007-1.i586.rpm

rpm --erase VirtualBox
rpm -i VirtualBox-2.2.2_46594_pclinuxos2007-1.i586.rpm

  • copy-and-paste still doesn’t work.

    • Their claim is: Host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues affecting hosts and guests running the X window system.

2009-04-18 – 2.2.0 r45846 ∞

Resources:

third try ∞

Still with the same host setup, I was working with a TinyME guest setup.

  • Umm, I can’t boot a previous snapshot? That sucks.

  • I somehow managed to bork everything. I was using snapshots, and after deleting a snapshot I found that I could not boot into the previous snapshot and mount the guest additions CDROM.

More coolness.

  1. Start a virtual machine
  2. In the menu, go to Devices > Shared Folders
  3. Add a folder you wish to share, remember the name you give it

  4. In the guest, log in as root and do something like:

mount -t vboxsf NAME /mnt

second try ∞

After installing task-qt4 and getting 2.0.4 to run, I wanted to re-try this one.

I had to uninstall the 2.0.4 version, and I kept the other VirtualBox-related stuff installed.

It works!

  • Can’t use sound while I was playing a DVD. =(

    • The DVD hangs
    • But I can start audacious.

  • Bug: Keygrab is aggressive:

    1. Have VirtualBox selected
    2. Tap <host> to not have the keyboard selected
    3. switch desktops away
    4. switch desktops back
    5. Now VirtualBox has the keyboard selected again.
    • The keyboard should remain in the previous state.
  • That loud popup warning about video mode should be configurable to just be a status bar icon.
  • HOLY FUCK, with Linux Mint it can auto-adjust screen resolution based on my resizing the VirtualBox window!!

  • When mouse integration

    • I cannot alt-click-drag to move windows in the VM. It works only on the VirtualBox window itself. =/
    • I cannot alt-rightclick-drag to resize windows…
getting VirtualBox guest additions running in Slackware 12.2

(slapt-get)

su
slapt-get --install kernel-source
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
cd /mnt
./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

reboot

first try ∞

Wow, VirtualBox ships a closed-source binary for PCLinuxOS 2007 now. I’ll check that out, it’ll include USB functionality!

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads (I got VirtualBox-2.2.0_45846_pclinuxos2007-1.i586.rpm)

su
rpm -i VirtualBox-2.2.0_45846_pclinuxos2007-1.i586.rpm
usermod -G vboxusers -U user
exit

VirtualBox

Requirements:

Qt4

Download Qt4 and unpack it.

su
./configure && gmake && gmake install
# ./configure -xshape   won't work because of functionality tests failing.  Oh well.

Some select output:

Configure:

Spoiler 
Debug ............... no
Qt 3 compatibility .. yes
QtDBus module ....... yes (run-time)
QtScriptTools module  yes
QtXmlPatterns module  yes
Phonon module ....... no
SVG module .......... yes
WebKit module ....... yes
STL support ......... yes
PCH support ......... yes
MMX/3DNOW/SSE/SSE2..  yes/yes/yes/yes
Graphics System ..... default
IPv6 support ........ yes
IPv6 ifname support . yes
getaddrinfo support . yes
getifaddrs support .. yes
Accessibility ....... yes
NIS support ......... yes
CUPS support ........ no
Iconv support ....... yes
Glib support ........ yes
GStreamer support ... no
Large File support .. yes
GIF support ......... plugin
TIFF support ........ plugin (system)
JPEG support ........ plugin (system)
PNG support ......... yes (system)
MNG support ......... plugin (qt)
zlib support ........ system
Session management .. no
OpenGL support ...... no
NAS sound support ... no
XShape support ...... no
Xinerama support .... no
Xcursor support ..... no
Xfixes support ...... no
Xrandr support ...... no
Xrender support ..... no
Xi support .......... no
MIT-SHM support ..... no
FontConfig support .. no
XKB Support ......... no
immodule support .... yes
GTK theme support ... no
SQLite support ...... plugin (qt)
OpenSSL support ..... no

gmake install I think:

Spoiler 
/path/to/VirtualBox/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.5.0/
bin/moc -DQT_SHARED -DQT_BUILD_GUI_LIB -DQT_NO_USING_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_A
SCII -DQT_ASCII_CAST_WARNINGS -DQT3_SUPPORT -DQT_MOC_COMPAT -DQT_RASTER_IMAGEENG
INE -DQT_HAVE_MMX -DQT_HAVE_3DNOW -DQT_HAVE_SSE -DQT_HAVE_MMXEXT -DQT_HAVE_SSE2 
-DFT2_BUILD_LIBRARY -DFT_CONFIG_OPTION_SYSTEM_ZLIB -DQT_NO_OPENTYPE -DQT_NO_STYL
E_MAC -DQT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSVISTA -DQT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSXP -DQT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSCE
 -DQT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSMOBILE -DQ_INTERNAL_QAPP_SRC -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_CORE_LIB -
D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -I../../mkspecs/linux-g++ -I. -I../../i
nclude/QtCore -I../../include -I../../include/QtGui -I.rcc/release-shared -I../3
rdparty/xorg -I../3rdparty/freetype/src -I../3rdparty/freetype/include -I../3rdp
arty/freetype/builds/unix -I../3rdparty/harfbuzz/src -Idialogs -I.moc/release-sh
ared -I/usr/X11R6/include -I.uic/release-shared kernel/qapplication.h -o .moc/re
lease-shared/moc_qapplication.cpp
g++ -c -include .pch/release-shared/QtGui -pipe -g -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-
2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hid
den -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DQT_SHARED -DQT_BUILD_GUI_LIB -DQT_NO_USING_NAM
ESPACE -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQT_ASCII_CAST_WARNINGS -DQT3_SUPPORT -DQT_MOC_COM
PAT -DQT_RASTER_IMAGEENGINE -DQT_HAVE_MMX -DQT_HAVE_3DNOW -DQT_HAVE_SSE -DQT_HAV
E_MMXEXT -DQT_HAVE_SSE2 -DFT2_BUILD_LIBRARY -DFT_CONFIG_OPTION_SYSTEM_ZLIB -DQT_
NO_OPENTYPE -DQT_NO_STYLE_MAC -DQT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSVISTA -DQT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSXP
 -DQT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSCE -DQT_NO_STYLE_WINDOWSMOBILE -DQ_INTERNAL_QAPP_SRC -DQT_
NO_DEBUG -DQT_CORE_LIB -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -I../../mkspecs
/linux-g++ -I. -I../../include/QtCore -I../../include -I../../include/QtGui -I.r
cc/release-shared -I../3rdparty/xorg -I../3rdparty/freetype/src -I../3rdparty/fr
eetype/include -I../3rdparty/freetype/builds/unix -I../3rdparty/harfbuzz/src -Id
ialogs -I.moc/release-shared -I/usr/X11R6/include -I.uic/release-shared -o .obj/
release-shared/qapplication.o kernel/qapplication.cpp
In file included from ../../include/QtGui/private/qt_x11_p.h:1,
                 from kernel/qapplication.cpp:76:
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:69:22: error: X11
/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:74:23: error: X11
/Xutil.h: No such file or directory
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:299: error: ‘Colo
rmap’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:300: error: ISO C
++ forbids declaration of ‘Visual’ with no type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:300: error: expec
ted ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:309: error: ‘Time
’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:310: error: ‘Wind
ow’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:311: error: ‘Wind
ow’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:334: error: ‘Wind
ow’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:337: error: ‘Wind
ow’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:338: error: ‘Wind
ow’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:338: error: ‘Atom
’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:339: error: ‘Atom
’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:340: error: ‘Wind
ow’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:340: error: ‘Atom
’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:351: error: expec
ted ‘,’ or ‘...’ before ‘*’ token
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:351: error: ISO C
++ forbids declaration of ‘XSelectionRequestEvent’ with no type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:353: error: ‘Atom
’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:354: error: ‘Atom
’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:356: error: ‘Atom
’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:357: error: ‘Atom
’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:358: error: ‘Atom
’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:359: error: ‘Atom
’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:359: error: ‘Atom
’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:360: error: ‘Atom
’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:360: error: templ
ate argument 1 is invalid
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:361: error: ‘Atom
’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:362: error: ‘Atom
’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:437: error: ISO C
++ forbids declaration of ‘Atom’ with no type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:437: error: expec
ted ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:439: error: ISO C
++ forbids declaration of ‘Window’ with no type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:439: error: expec
ted ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:441: error: ‘Wind
ow’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:444: error: ISO C
++ forbids declaration of ‘Visual’ with no type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:444: error: expec
ted ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:445: error: ISO C
++ forbids declaration of ‘Colormap’ with no type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:445: error: expec
ted ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:449: error: ‘Time
’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:450: error: ‘Time
’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:476: error: ISO C
++ forbids declaration of ‘Visual’ with no type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:476: error: expec
ted ‘;’ before ‘*’ token
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:477: error: ‘Colo
rmap’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:660: error: ‘Atom
’ does not name a type
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:662: error: ‘Atom
’ has not been declared
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:691: error: ‘Focu
sOut’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:692: error: ‘Focu
sIn’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:693: error: ‘KeyP
ress’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:694: error: ‘KeyR
elease’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:695: error: ‘None
’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:696: error: ‘Reve
rtToParent’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:697: error: ‘Gray
Scale’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:698: error: ‘Curs
orShape’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:713: error: ‘XPoi
nt’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:713: error: templ
ate argument 1 is invalid
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:714: error: ‘XRec
tangle’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:714: error: templ
ate argument 1 is invalid
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:715: error: ‘XCha
r2b’ was not declared in this scope
../../include/QtGui/private/../../../src/gui/kernel/qt_x11_p.h:715: error: templ
ate argument 1 is invalid
gmake[1]: *** [.obj/release-shared/qapplication.o] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/path/to/VirtualBox
/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.5.0/src/gui'
gmake: *** [sub-gui-make_default-ordered] Error 2

Since gmake uninstall did stuff, I can assume the plain gmake worked.

Running VirtualBox gives:

VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: libQtCore.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2009-04-19 – 2.0.4 ∞

It’s in the repository. Still not updated. =/

Running it gives:

WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (2.6.26.8.tex3) or it failed to
         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

           sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/virtualbox start

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: libQtCore.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/init.d/virtualbox start<
Starting virtualbox daemon: FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.
                                                                [FAILED]

Doing a complete reinstall of everything related to VirtualBox gives:

VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: libQtCore.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
su
apt-get install task-qt4

2009-01 – 1.5.6-1 ∞

apt-get install virtualbox x11-driver-input-vboxmouse x11-driver-video-vboxvideo

I’m not sure what x11-driver-input-vboxmouse and x11-driver-video-vboxvideo will be for, but I’ll install them just in case.

Not obvious, but to run it, do:

VirtualBox

Works well.

2007-04-03 – (version not recorded) ∞

I can easily get it up and running for PCLinuxOS 2007-test3. So easily. Wow.

  • The ‘host key’ is the right-control key.
  • The ‘additions’ won’t work for Windows 98 .. so the video/mouse enhancements aren’t there… sigh. =(
  • You cannot enable/disable networking while it’s running.
  • Using USB devices with the guest OS isn’t available in the free version.

  • The free version isn’t completely open source – it has some compiled files.

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