I am fairly new to openSUSE and I wanted to set up a virtual machine to
run Windows XP. As I had used VirtualBox on Windows and was familiar
with it, I decided to give it a try.
I am running openSUSE 11 x86_64 KDE 4, so I downloaded the appropriate
rpm (VirtualBox-2.0.6_39765_openSUSE11-1.x86_64.rpm) from the VirtualBox
website and installed it with no problem.
I started it up and created a virtual machine and again had no
problems. Then when I went to run the virtual machine I got the two
following error messages:
When using the PUEL version from the VirtualBox download site, you need
to compile the vboxdrv module. This requires extra packages to be
installed, and these are:
make, gcc, kernel-source, pam-devel
I think that’s the list. Anyway if something is missing the log file
will tell you what else is needed. The kernel-source package must match
in version with the running kernel. So you should have the updates
repository enabled and install using YaST.
I believe there’s a howto on the OpenSUSE wiki about this.
However I cannot set my resolution on the guest machine higher than
1024x768. My resolution on the host is 1400x900 as I have a widescreen
monitor. I have installed the guest additions, but I only have two
options 800x600 and 1024x768. Does any know if it is possible to have a
resolution of 1400x900 on a Windows XP guest machine.
I have trouble getting it to work sometimes in Linux guests.
What happens when you select seemless?
Try the tabs across the top of the main GUI, the first one I think,
there are screen options, choose ‘adjust window size’ - now hit the
maximize button top right of the GUI. It gives me XP over the whole
window.
