VirtualBox 4.2/4.1 crashing KDE ?

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I am using a fresh install of openSuse 12.2 with a freshly-installed VirtualBox 4.2 (I’ve even removed 4.2 and installed 4.1, just to see if it was a 4.2 problem) - I can create a guest VM, but every time I go to Settings to edit it, KDE crashes (?) and sends me back to the login screen. It might not be KDE crashing at all, but it looks to me like my desktop is crashing since it sends me back to the login screen.

I’ve installed and removed VirtualBox via YAST, so I shouldn’t have a dependency problem. Here is my repos list:

user04@beast:~> zypper lr
#  | Alias                     | Name                               | Enabled | Refresh
---+---------------------------+------------------------------------+---------+--------
 1 | Oracle_VirtualBox         | Oracle VirtualBox                  | Yes     | Yes    
 2 | Packman                   | Packman                            | Yes     | Yes    
 3 | openSUSE-12.2-1.6         | openSUSE-12.2-1.6                  | No      | No     
 4 | repo-debug                | openSUSE-12.2-Debug                | No      | Yes    
 5 | repo-debug-update         | openSUSE-12.2-Update-Debug         | No      | Yes    
 6 | repo-debug-update-non-oss | openSUSE-12.2-Update-Debug-Non-Oss | No      | Yes    
 7 | repo-non-oss              | openSUSE-12.2-Non-Oss              | Yes     | Yes    
 8 | repo-oss                  | openSUSE-12.2-Oss                  | Yes     | Yes    
 9 | repo-source               | openSUSE-12.2-Source               | No      | Yes    
10 | repo-update               | openSUSE-12.2-Update               | Yes     | Yes    
11 | repo-update-non-oss       | openSUSE-12.2-Update-Non-Oss       | Yes     | Yes

the vbox-install.log looks like this:

var/log> cat vbox-install.log
Uninstalling modules from DKMS
Attempting to install using DKMS

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.1.22/source ->
                 /usr/src/vboxhost-4.1.22

DKMS: add Completed.

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel.  Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=3.4.6-2.10-desktop -C /lib/modules/3.4.6-2.10-desktop/build M=/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.1.22/build.................
cleaning build area....

DKMS: build Completed.

vboxdrv.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.4.6-2.10-desktop/updates/

vboxnetflt.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.4.6-2.10-desktop/updates/

vboxnetadp.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.4.6-2.10-desktop/updates/

vboxpci.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.4.6-2.10-desktop/updates/
Adding any weak-modules

depmod....

DKMS: install Completed.

I’m am using the NVIDIA driver v304.43 with a 9500-GT video card.

Any ideas, anybody? I’m stumped, and a bit frustrated.

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So I had a problem with the same version of the nVIDIA driver and KDE, but I am not sure its VirtualBox at fault. I ended up loading the latest nVIDIA driver (304.51) the hard way and then going into KDE and making sure openGL was selecting for composting which was not true, then logging out and back into openSUSE. Before all of this I made sure I was up-to-date with openSUSE from YaST.

Installing the nVIDIA Video Driver the Hard Way - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

AND

LNVHW - Load NVIDIA (driver the) Hard Way from runlevel 3 - Version 1.46 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

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Jdmcdaniel3

You are spot-on with your solution. I tried everything else that I recently installed, but never thought about the video driver - that should have been the most obvious.

Thanks for the help.

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I was happy to help. I had two different computers with nVIDIA cards where KDE started crashing. I read where there was an issue with the previous nVIDIA driver, but never put my finger on it because I did not have a problem at first with that 304.43 driver. And I never thought that openGL might no longer be selected in KDE for compositing. Yet, the fix and order sequence I prescribed worked twice in a row for me which is the best I can do with checking the solution out.

Thank You,