i want to install a virtual machine software
so i tried virtual box ose (IT WON"T START!)
and i want to install a antivirus
i tried clam (can’t see it anywhere!)
i tried Klam (it start but scanning don’t work!)
i tried antivir (wont start!)
so i have no choice that i have to use avg crap edition (linux
edition)
and i want to install my webcam which is a microdia u-cam and i select
the right type of system type mine is (x86-64) and I keep getting error
messeges!
why is this happening to me with software and why is it hard to run it
and install it?
please help me with this issue please! im bagging you
Have you installed the hal update? The latest version is 0.5.12-10.12.1.
I think this will solve the problem with VirtualBox not starting. If it
doesn’t, try starting it as root.
liam@linux-skz8:~> rpm -qi hal
Name : hal Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 0.5.12 Vendor: openSUSE
Release : 10.12.1 Build Date: Tue 20 Jan 2009 11:33:52 AM NST
Install Date: Wed 28 Jan 2009 09:45:42 PM NST Build Host: albeniz
Group : System/Daemons Source RPM: hal-0.5.12-10.12.1.src.rpm
Size : 1813252 License: GPL v2 or later; AFL
Signature : RSA/8, Tue 20 Jan 2009 11:34:10 AM NST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Packager : http://bugs.opensuse.org
URL : http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal
Summary : Daemon for Collecting Hardware Information
Description :
HAL is a hardware abstraction layer and aims to provide a live list of
devices present in the system at any point in time. HAL tries to
understand both, physical devices (such as PCI and USB) and the device
classes (such as input, net, and block) physical devices have. Besides
it allows merging of information from device info files specific to a
device. HAL provides a API through D-BUS for querying devices and
notifying when things change. Finally, HAL provides some monitoring (in
an unintrusive way) of devices. For further information, please refer
to the HAL specification.
Woah, do not run as root! It’s really not necessary. How did you install
Virtualbox? If you run from your terminal emulator like konsole it
should output an error. Post it here. The usual problems are problems
making the kernel module, not being a member of vboxusers and in the
recent non ose build the execute bit is not set for the executable.
There is a README file in
/usr/share/doc/packages/virtualbox-ose/README.SUSE that has info about
running VirtualBox as normal user.
You can use YaST2 to add your user to vboxusers or run this command as
root:
usermod -A vboxusers username
Replace ‘username’ with your user and logout/login. You should find the
emulator listed in the kickoff menu under system > Emulator. It started
as normal user for me this way.