Virtual box gtk?

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Dear all,
in the latest opensuse 12.2 I installed the virtual box and the package called virtual box gtk. That gives me access to a simplified version of virtual box. There are no small icons at the right bottom part of the window to allow me attaching usb devices to the guest operating system or their not selection for seamless mode of full screen mode.

IT looks like that what I installed is a limited type of gui that it does not give me all the options I was used to.
Do you understand what is the package I am looking for and if yes where I can download it ?

Regards
Alex

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I guess that most people that know more about VirtualBox dwell in the Virtualization forum here.

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Oups! Could you please move it ? :slight_smile:

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Will be moved. Please do not post here until moved.

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Moved and open again.

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I am not a VirtualBox user, but I install software now and then. I never saw a package name with white space in it.
I also tried to find a package with a name that looks like “virtual box gtk”, but there is none in the standard repos (though there is “virtualbox-qt”), thus you might have installed it from elsewhere without explaining.
When you provide inprecise and incomplete information, potential helpers might get irritated and go and help elsewhere :wink:

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su -
zypper in vboxgtk
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Thanks. That is different from what the OP said. And when you look at it, the text that comes with it might explain why the OP is missing things:

VBoxGtk is a simple GTK+ frontend for VirtualBox. Its objective is to support only the basic features of VirtualBox and keep the interface simple and clean.

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I am confused. So the user does not want vboxgtk? Then here is the best option. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

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actually I want the one that looks like this one

750×469 250 KB

I wonder why the one I installed does not look like the screenshot above and is very primitive.

The installed packages are:

rpm -qa | grep virtual
python-virtualbox-4.1.22-1.6.1.i586
virtualbox-guest-x11-4.1.22-1.6.1.i586
virtualbox-guest-tools-4.1.22-1.6.1.i586
virtualbox-guest-kmp-desktop-4.1.22_k3.4.6_2.10-1.6.1.i586
virtualbox-4.1.22-1.6.1.i586
virtualbox-host-kmp-desktop-4.1.22_k3.4.6_2.10-1.6.1.i586
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Hi there,
I think I found it and installed the version from the link provided.

Now I need to install the kernel sources for running
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

do you know which is the right package to download for kernel sources? Can I also use later on the same sources for recompiling the kernel so to speed it up a bit?

Regards

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On 01/09/2013 05:16 AM, alaios wrote:
>
> Hi there,
> I think I found it and installed the version from the link provided.
>
> Now I need to install the kernel sources for running
> /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
>
>
> do you know which is the right package to download for kernel sources?
> Can I also use later on the same sources for recompiling the kernel so
> to speed it up a bit?

I install VB from the RPMs on the Oracle (VirtualBox) web site, and my VB
control panel looks just like the screen shot you posted. I use KDE.

You don’t really need the entire kernel source; however, you do need the kernel
headers.

Changing the configuration of the kernel is unlikely to improve the throughput
of a running system unless you change the CONFIG_HZ_XX parameter. A desktop
kernel usually sets XX to 1000. You can reduce the scheduler overhead by setting
250. That will, however, reduce the responsiveness of the system, and you might
not be happy with that.

What is speeded up with a careful configuration is the time it takes to build
the kernel; however, you need to be careful as you can end up with a kernel that
will not boot.