Is anyone running M6 in VirtualBox? I can’t get an X session started. I installed M4 without any serious problems, upgraded to M5, but when I did a dup to M6, the guest started crashing when booting into graphical mode. I scrapped that guest machine and tried a clean install, but I still can only get into text mode. I’m using the Gnome live CD, and it passes the integrity tests. Does anyone have this running on VB? What was you experience?
I reported this as a bug, but they closed it because I can’t provide them a log file for X.org!
On 02/06/2011 02:36 AM, chief sealth wrote:
>
> Is anyone running M6 in VirtualBox? I can’t get an X session started. I
> installed M4 without any serious problems, upgraded to M5, but when I
> did a dup to M6, the guest started crashing when booting into graphical
> mode. I scrapped that guest machine and tried a clean install, but I
> still can only get into text mode. I’m using the Gnome live CD, and it
> passes the integrity tests. Does anyone have this running on VB? What
> was you experience?
>
> I reported this as a bug, but they closed it because I can’t provide
> them a log file for X.org!
>
>
It’s a kernel issue. I was able to get it to work in VBox 3.7.12:
I wasn’t able to install in GUI, so I made a txt install.
boot guest in runlevel 3 (type ‘3’ as a boot option)
start yast
install kernel-desktop-devel (or the kernel-version you have)
install make
install gcc
At this point I got an error but I chose to remove the package that was
suggested and it worked)
mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
cd /mnt
sh VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run
Thanks, Vahis, but what I ended up doing was upgrading VBox to v. 4.02. Somebody on the mailing list also suggested that the vbox video driver hadn’t been compiled against the new kernel, although this didn’t cause any problems in 11.3 or Fedora.