XEN/KVM + VirtualBox = Large Mess :)

No, I didn’t try them both at the same time. :grinning: Back in February, I installed KVM under OpenSuse 15.6, on a Dell 7010 with an I5 and 32Gig of RAM. I had to post here for a bit of help, but got it working; then I discovered that KVM insists on using (I think it was) TigerVNC, which is incompatible with RealVNC, which I MUST use for my employer. So … after all that work to install it, I had to uninstall.

A few days ago, I wanted to grab some screenshots of an install for a good friend and coworker in Denver, CO. I remembered that KVM had been vaporized, so I said, “Ah! VirtualBox.” I installed it with Yast, made myself a member of the VBoxUsers group, and rebooted just to be safe. Sure enough, it seemed to work.

After grabbing my screenshots, I removed VirtualBox with Yast, and that’s when things went to crap. My network died, so no Internet. (For the record, I use Wicked, not Network Manager.) Entire files were missing from some directories. Needless to say, it was kind of difficult to reinstall missing apps and troubleshoot with no Internet, so I just reinstalled OpenSuse 15.6. Thank the Lord, that worked. I kept my /home directories and everything fell back into place.

I wish I had more information, I might file some bug reports. I was under pressure to get a job done before Christmas, so I really had no choice but to take the quick route and reinstall OpenSuse.

Give me a few days to catch my breath and I’ll see about upgrading to 16.0. :grin: But this is a heads up for anyone else who runs across this. I can’t see any reason why uninstalling VirtualBox should tamper with so many files, but there you go.

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Accidentally included the --clean-deps flag while removing Virtualbox? :smiling_face_with_tear:

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I used the GUI version of Yast under the KDE desktop. I didn’t see any such flag.

Even if I had, it’s hard to understand why it would delete all of the config files for Wicked. A bunch of other stuff was deleted as well. When I first started to troubleshoot, I’d enter something like “mc” (Midnight Commander) and get “not found.” It was truly weird.

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