On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:59:21 +0000 Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello list, > > Since VirtualBox was upgraded from 4.3.32 to 5.0.14 recently, I've > been getting a little transient notice panel on my KDE4 screen saying > something like "the virtualbox kernel service is... [not running]". I've seen similar messages when the guest is running an older version of virtualbox guest additions. Is your XP guest still running 4.3.32? > My WinXP guest runs happily in its virtual box, but the Atlas BOINC > client, which downloads a VirtualBox client to operate in, reports > communication failure. I'm wondering if the problem is only with BOINC. Do you still see the pop-up notice if you don't even try to run BOINC? BTW, have you tried this: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Gentoo I haven't, but I tried downloading the generic linux BOINC installer and of course it wanted a gtk library I've never heard of.
