Virtualbox problem

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I’m trying to re-install OpenSolaris from the .iso cd because I hosed the first installation… after deleting it and the emulated hard drive, got this when trying to start:

Failed to start the virtual machine OpenSolaris.
Cannot open host device ‘/dev/sr0’ for read/write access. Check the permissions of that device (’/bin/ls -l /dev/sr0’): Most probably you need to be member of the device group. Make sure that you logout/login after changing the group settings of the current user (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).
Unknown error creating VM (VERR_ACCESS_DENIED).

Not sure I understand where to make the recommended changes.

The permissions show as

brw-rw----+ 1 root disk 11, 0 2009-05-23 11:02 /dev/sr0

This all worked the first time… but I hosed the /etc/X11/xorg.conf on the OpenSolaris guest so tried to reinstall…

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A temp way round would be to use k3b to create a .iso image of the actual disc. Copy cd/dvd - create image only check box. File goes to /tmp/kde-username
Move the .iso to a suitable location and use that.

Back to your issue. You have used it from the disc before, now it will not work. Strange. There was an issue with cd access but was fixed with updates. Make sure you have done:
from su terminal

zypper ref

zypper up
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Looks like this reinstalled everything on the system.

Problem is that the Virtualbox from the SUSE repositories doesn’t run when you click on the icon… I had installed the verison from the vendor site and it did work.

We must have just re-installed the SUSE version. I’ll delete and see how the vendor version works.

Followup - the re-install of OpenSolaris is now proceeding.

Thank you so very much for your advice !

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You seem to be in a bit of a mess. Slow down. Post the result of:

zypper lr
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Slow down ? Guess I am a bit impatient.

You never told me what the zypper command is for. Guess I can look it up.

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh

–±-------------±--------------------------±--------±-------
1 | repo | Main Repository (NON-OSS) | Yes | Yes
2 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | Yes | Yes
3 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | No
4 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | No
5 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | Yes | Yes
6 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | No
7 | repo_1 | Main Repository (OSS) | Yes | Yes
8 | repo_2 | Main Update Repository | Yes | Yes
9 | repo_3 | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes

Not in a mess anymore, OpenSolaris is installing as we speak. It’s just the Virtualbox version from the SUSE repository did not work.

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zypper info: Zypper/Usage/11.1 - openSUSE

You have duplicate and unnecessary repo’s
You can delete all repos except 1, 7, 8, 9,

when done post

zypper lr --details
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I looked at my list of repositories and didn’t see any duplicates.

| Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type | URI | Service

–±-------------±--------------------------±--------±--------±---------±-------±----------------------------------------------------------------±-------
1 | repo | Main Repository (NON-OSS) | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss |
2 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.1-Debug | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | Index of /debug/distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
3 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss |
4 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.1-Oss | Yes | No | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
5 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.1-Source | Yes | Yes | 100 | yast2 | Index of /source/distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
6 | repo-update | openSUSE-11.1-Update | Yes | No | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.1 |
7 | repo_1 | Main Repository (OSS) | Yes | Yes | 99 | yast2 | Index of /distribution/11.1/repo/oss |
8 | repo_2 | Main Update Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /update/11.1 |
9 | repo_3 | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes | 99 | rpm-md | Index of /pub/packman/suse/11.1 |

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I beg to differ
repos to keep all in red
duplicates highlight type in bold red

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I wasn’t challenging you - I’m just beginning to learn this distro and am very glad to have your assistance.

Guess I don’t understand the display. You have hilighted openSUSE-11.1-Oss as a duplicate, but I don’t see it anywhere else in the display - unless I shouldn’t be looking for an exact match of the name ? I do see Update, Oss, etc. elsewhere.

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If you had installed virtual box from the Sun .rpm you should not have any other Virtual Box packages installed, if you do, then this may cause what happened.
It’s not good to have messy repos. Leave the ones I said and remove the others. You don’t need debug or source either.

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I’ll follow your advice.

Not sure how the repos got there - perhaps I added them.

Thanks again.