Hi,
I have virtual box working perfectly in Suse 10.3. Now I want to install 11.0 and move the working virtual machines to this new install. Is that possible and how??
By the way, does anyone have experience with virtual box on 11.0??
Thanks for replying!!
GeckoSuse wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have virtual box working perfectly in Suse 10.3. Now I want to
> install 11.0 and move the working virtual machines to this new install.
> Is that possible and how??
> By the way, does anyone have experience with virtual box on 11.0??
> Thanks for replying!!
Copy the entire directory (default is home/<user>/.VirtualBox) from 10.3 to
a matching directory in 11.0. If you updated and saved you /home, then
it’s already there.
I had to use the binary from virtualbox.org but only to get the USB
functionality I needed for a couple of apps. If you need USB, then get the
binary from VitrualBox, extract it and execute the .run file. Otherwise,
you can just install the OSE version via Yast - they all use the same
virtual disc files. You will have to re-install the extensions, but the
amount of setup is minimal - just make sure you backup your virtual disc
files - all of them! - before you start since Murphy is alive and well.
–
Will Honea
Will Honea,
The Virtualbox Community Repository below has both versions packaged
already, the 1.6.2 version has the USB support.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/VirtualBox/openSUSE_11.0
–
Niclas Ekstedt, CNA/CNE/CNS/CLS
Systems Engineer/NSC Sysop
Telindus Sweden AB
Niclas Ekstedt wrote:
> The Virtualbox Community Repository below has both versions packaged
> already, the 1.6.2 version has the USB support.
>
>
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/VirtualBox/openSUSE_11.0
>
All I see there are the OSE version rpms so unless I got a weird copy there
was NO USB in the OSE 1.6.2 version I installed - menus or config. That’s
also pretty clearly stated on the VirtualBox web pages as well - has
something changed recently?
–
Will Honea
Thanks Will for the advice. I had the same idea, but no experience. I’ll let you know how things work out.
Will Honea,
> was NO USB in the OSE 1.6.2 version I installed - menus or config. That’s
> also pretty clearly stated on the VirtualBox web pages as well - has
> something changed recently?
Just tried it on a testbox and you’re right. There’s only the OSE versions,
now. I’ve been playing around with VBox so much lately, so I’m probably
just mixing the repos up 
As you say get the non-OSE version from the virtualbox site and you do get
USB support.
–
Niclas Ekstedt, CNA/CNE/CNS/CLS
Systems Engineer/NSC Sysop
Telindus Sweden AB
Okay dear readers,
I 've done the above, but get the following error message;
**The virtual machine could not be started because the DVD image ‘/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso’ which is attached to it could not be found or could not be opened. Please detach the image and try again.
Result Code:
0x80004005
Component:
Console
Interface:
IConsole {d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf}**
So please help…
GeckoSuse,
> --The virtual machine could not be started because the DVD image
> ‘/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso’ which is attached to it
> could not be found or could not be opened. Please detach the image and
> try again.
This should be as easy as just go into the VM and and select the CDROM to be
Not Mounted. Reason for this is that the CD image that you have specified
in the Virtual Disk Manager no longer exists. You can go into the Virtual
Disk Manager and remove the no longer existing image and readd it once
you’ve located it.
–
Niclas Ekstedt, CNA/CNE/CNS/CLS
Systems Engineer/NSC Sysop
Telindus Sweden AB