Virtualbox success

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I initially installed the Leap 42.2 oss set of virtualbox rpms = 5.1.4-1.6 and it worked but not well; Win7 was jerky after all the updates.

I deleted the rpms in Yast and installed the Virtualization repo
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/
which provides the 5.1.10-253-1 set of rpms

It didn’t like the previous Virtual Machine so, I deleted it and re-installed Win7 pro x86_64

installed Guest additions; updated Win7 to Service pack 1, reinstalled Guest Additions in safe mode, turned on things in “Settings” like 2D & 3D, etc.

Works like a champ!

Have fun!

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I am new to OpenSuse and wonder how you actually do this?

Would you mind and give me a step by step tutorial? :shame:

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Hi dirkme,

1st Add the repo
Start Yast > Repositories > add .> Use URL > copy & paste that link > give it a name > accept > Trust the key & close

Next:
In Yast > Software Management > search for “virtualbox”
select it > it should also select the correct kernel module for you; but, I check in a terminal with "uname -a
in the right smaller window > click Versions > tick the 5.1.10-253-1 set of rpms
I did vbox
vbox- guest icons
vbox-host-kmp-default – this is the kernel module to check; 4.4.27-2-default is where I’m at now
Vbox-qt
Accept

When it is all done, I reboot to load the new kernel modules

Now, we have to do one more thing:
Start Yast > Security & Users > Users & Group Mngt > select your user name > edit > Details & over on the right tick “vboxusers”
OK out of Yast

Reboot

start Vbox and go through the setup; I used a dynamic disk so it grows only as I fill it
you can read the vbox help; they have a forum
you can download the additions when you have the OS installed; I installed them from safe mode, F8 at boot, in win7

have fun!

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It’s so cool that Opensuse is finally to the point where I can use VMs on my laptop. I use Win7 routinely for software not available on Linux, but mostly I use straight Opensuse (13.2x64). I’m following cybersecurity blogs and was looking at Qubes. That looks good, but it’s just a distro that forces you to use Xen. Let me get this straight - you always use VNC to access virtual machines when running the Xen opensuse kernel? It’s nice that Virtualbox takes care of all this machine-access part for you. But I think Xen might be a little more secure than Virtualbox, or at least, that’s the inference I see on various security pages.

Thanks,
Patricia :slight_smile:

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Well,
Virtualbox is a bit less secure I’m sure because those compromises were made to make the app more User-friendly.
But, If better security is desired, it shouldn’t be too hard to Google some discussions on the topic and make the necessary modifications.

Virtualbox is also intended for Desktop app use, and I doubt encouraged to be used for Production use.

All speculation,
TSU

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Hi,

Virtualbox tries to do cross platform install so one size fits all does not work-out-of-the-box, unlike Xen which runs on *Nix system only. :slight_smile: