Problem with Virtualbox on openSUSE 11 x86_64

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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:

http://www.dixie17.me.uk/os-images/vb-error-1.png

http://www.dixie17.me.uk/os-images/vb-error-2.png

I then did as suggested and tried to re-setup the kernel by executing the command displayed in the above error message and got the following results:

http://www.dixie17.me.uk/os-images/vb-error-3.png

So I then went and viewed the log as instructed which contained the following:

/usr/share/virtualbox/src/build_in_tmp: line 99: make: command not found

I have no idea what this means and have searched for a while to find an answer but I am completely stuck. I appreciate any help that can be given.

Many Thanks

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check the steps here:
VirtualBox Installation - openSUSE

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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.

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Thanks for the help, that resolved the problem.

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.

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Yes to 1400x900 it works fine.
Here is a screen of mine
Image:Xp guest in VBox Seamless Mode.jpeg - openSUSE

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.