On Friday 05 February 2016 15:02:35 walt wrote: > On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:59:21 +0000 > Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > 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?
It may have been. It isn't now though, and I still get the message. > > 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? Yes, it seems not to be related to BOINC. Even so, I decided that recent security changes required me to mount BOINC's partition in the default location /var/lib/boinc instead of under my home directory, where I used to have it before the graphical manager became useful. That's made no difference either. > BTW, have you tried this: > > http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Gentoo No, I hadn't seen that, but reading it prompted me to make the change I describe above. > 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. :-) -- Rgds Peter
