Thank you wolfi323!
I’ll give your suggestion a try!
Meanwhile I found this which is what the vboxgtk is printing when I try to start a 12.3-64 vm:
[Bug 811221] New: I met a wrong message in virtualbox when I create a new VM From: bugzilla_noreply@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:46:38 +0000 Message-id: <bug-811221-21960@http.bugzilla.novell.com/>
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811221
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811221#c0
Summary: I met a wrong message in virtualbox when I create a
new VM
Classification: openSUSE
Product: openSUSE 12.3
Version: Final
Platform: x86-64
OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2
Status: NEW
Severity: Normal
Priority: P5 - None
Component: Other
AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ReportedBy: ogpugr@xxxxxxxxx
QAContact: qa-bugs@xxxxxxx
Found By: ---
Blocker: ---
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_1_3 like Mac OS X)
AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10B329 Safari/8536.25
Actually my operating system version is openSUSE 12.3, but it isn't listed
above. I installed the virtualbox at
http://software.opensuse.org/package/virtualbox . I installed the virtualbox
successfully. But in the create new VM page, I chose the Windows XP, then I
click the add button, it told me "Could not create the VM: this parameter must
be a string or Unicode object.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create new VM
2.Choose Windows XP
3.Click add
Actual Results:
The machine said " Could not create the VM: this parameter must be a string or
Unicode object.
My 12.3-64 is up to date according to yast > online update. This is a virgin install, so if this bug report is real, it must not have been fixed yet. Heboland.