In the past, I have used logical partitions to install my different distros.
This time, I decided to try Oracle’s VirtualBox again, to get away from the partitions.
What I found is that OpenSuse 11.4 installs and runs full screen without fiddling. Performance is fine. I am very impressed!
Certain other distros would not run full screen no matter what I tried.
That’s all I wanted to say.
But, if I can say that I really, really like Suse’s KDE implementation. Also, I am still adjusting to Yast and Zypper (coming from apt), but I have been able to get by so far. Plus, I guess my number one biggest problem has been getting Suse to co-exist with other distros in the logical partitions. I think my problems were that the other distros were grub2 and Suse was grub legacy. With virtualbox, this issue is moot. I briefly attempted installing 12.1 but will wait for the general release.
You could have tried to install them with vboxlive. It automatically mounts the VBoxAdditions on a second virtual CD drive. Then you just need to execute VBoxLinuxAdditions.run and you can use the VirtualBox graphics driver. It is already there in openSUSE, as you noticed.
I had tried guest additions on other distros with often limited results. I guess with Suse, no matter how you run guest additions, they work. Thanks for the ideas.
While on the subject of virtualization, I was trying to copy one vm outside the created dir, but VB would refuse to run it, erroring out with that hex diskid. I am able to clone a vm but not copy it as I would expect. I’ve done research on this, and there does not appear to be a simple solution. I will do more research on this.
