Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 22, 2024, 10:44 Fernando Cassia wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 14:14 Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 12/19/24 3:33 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: >> > Used it a couple weeks ago, but now get this error message went >> > trying to start. >> > >> > VirtualBox can't operate in

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Dec 21, 2024, 19:22 Allan via users wrote: > > > Just create a VirtualBox.conf file in /etc/modprobe.d/ > > With this line inside: > blacklist kvm-intel > > and the problem should be fixed > Thanks Allan. Appreciate it FC -- ___ users mailin

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Dec 20, 2024, 14:14 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/19/24 3:33 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > Used it a couple weeks ago, but now get this error message went > > trying to start. > > > > VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. > > Please disable the KVM kernel extension, reco

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-21 Thread Allan via users
På Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:25:46 +1000 "Michael D. Setzer II via users" skrev: > On 19 Dec 2024 at 23:50, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Date sent:Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:50:29 -0800 > Subject: Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but >

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 09:43 -0800, Doug Herr wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2024, at 9:03 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > [snip] > > Why can't you use kvm? > > I also use VirtualBox. Have installed and experimented with KVM a number of > times. It worked, but it did not do anything that VirtualBox was not doi

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/20/24 1:25 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: On 19 Dec 2024 at 23:50, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/19/24 11:37 PM, Ron Yorston wrote: (I only use VirtualBox occasionally, to run a Windows XP VM which I've never managed to get working with KVM. Otherwise I prefer Virtual Machine Manager.) I'v

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-20 Thread Doug Herr
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024, at 9:03 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: [snip] > Why can't you use kvm? I also use VirtualBox. Have installed and experimented with KVM a number of times. It worked, but it did not do anything that VirtualBox was not doing for me already. I am fully used to VirtualBox so it is easie

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-20 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 19 Dec 2024 at 21:03, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:03:23 -0800 Subject:Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message. To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Samuel Sieb Send reply to

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/19/24 3:33 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Used it a couple weeks ago, but now get this error message went trying to start. VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot. (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE). Found a

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-20 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 19 Dec 2024 at 23:50, Samuel Sieb wrote: Date sent: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:50:29 -0800 Subject:Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message. To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Samuel Sieb Send reply to

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/19/24 11:37 PM, Ron Yorston wrote: The 6.12 kernel has changed the way virtualisation modules are loaded. Some discussion, with workarounds, here: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/22248 https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/zwqjusole6swa...@google.com/T/ I was able to get VirtualBox to st

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-19 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 19 Dec 2024 at 20:18, Jeffrey Walton wrote: From: Jeffrey Walton Date sent: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 20:18:53 -0500 Subject:Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message. To: mi...@guam.net, Community support

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-19 Thread Ron Yorston
The 6.12 kernel has changed the way virtualisation modules are loaded. Some discussion, with workarounds, here: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/22248 https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/zwqjusole6swa...@google.com/T/ I was able to get VirtualBox to start by unloading the kvm_intel module with th

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 7:00 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > On 20 Dec 2024 at 9:33, Michael D. Setzer II via user wrote: > [...] > > Used it a couple weeks ago, but now get this error message went > > trying to start. > > > > VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. > > Please disa

Re: VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-19 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 20 Dec 2024 at 9:33, Michael D. Setzer II via user wrote: To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date sent: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 09:33:06 +1000 Subject:VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message. Priority: normal Send reply

Re: VirtualBox does not run on Wayland

2024-07-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/6/24 11:07 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Yeah, Wayland is not quite ready for prime time. It is still missing features. I do my best to avoid it. (This is one of the most important features (for me). X11 has it, Wayland does not: ). To be clear, th

Re: VirtualBox does not run on Wayland

2024-07-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 4:51 AM Frédéric wrote: > > It took me a while to understand that Wayland was the source of my > problem so I share my experience so that others can be quicker to > solve this issue. > > I moved to F40 and Plasma came only with Wayland. Then, everything > seemed OK apart tha

Re: VirtualBox does not run on Wayland

2024-07-06 Thread John Pilkington
On 06/07/2024 09:50, Frédéric wrote: Hi, It took me a while to understand that Wayland was the source of my problem so I share my experience so that others can be quicker to solve this issue. I moved to F40 and Plasma came only with Wayland. Then, everything seemed OK apart that my Windows VM r

Re: VirtualBox does not run on Wayland

2024-07-06 Thread Sérgio Basto
Hi, Thank you for the report On Sat, 2024-07-06 at 10:50 +0200, Frédéric via rpmfusion-users wrote: > Hi, > > It took me a while to understand that Wayland was the source of my > problem so I share my experience so that others can be quicker to > solve this issue. > > I moved to F40 and Plasma

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2024-02-08 Thread murph nj
If you're still not interested in the QEMU/Libvirt route, this news may interest you, might lead to better compatibility. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300317 On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 5:03 PM Sbob wrote: > > All; > > > I am running Fedora39, I have run VMware workstation for years, and I

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-02 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/2/23 10:50, Sbob wrote: can I run OSX in QEMU/KVM/libvirt? Does the same mac unlocker work? Also, I might add, I have been doing consulting for 29 years now. I have never once need an OSx computer to play on. Their on line documentation is excellent. On the other hand, most of the O

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-02 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/2/23 10:50, Sbob wrote: can I run OSX in QEMU/KVM/libvirt? Does the same mac unlocker work? Yes. But first you must purchase Apple hardware to run it on or you are in violation of the terms and conditions of OSx. VM's are allow, but only on Apple hardware. As such, you will et little su

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-02 Thread Sbob
can I run OSX in QEMU/KVM/libvirt? Does the same mac unlocker work? On 12/1/23 19:11, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 12/1/23 15:32, Sbob wrote: How is the virtual networking in QEMU/KVM/libvirt? can I just click into settings and 'add' a network interface? Yes.  Lots of options https://im

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/1/23 15:32, Sbob wrote: How is the virtual networking in QEMU/KVM/libvirt? can I just click into settings and 'add' a network interface? Yes. Lots of options https://imgur.com/sOgQTvW.png -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-01 Thread old sixpack13
... >   -  can I run the osx unlocker with virtualbox? > > >   - does virtualbox have the same issues where it needs a patch after > each kernel and sometimes >    just breaks with a new kernel , even with the patch? > I don't know if it also happens with OSX, but Vbox has issues with kernel

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-01 Thread Sbob
How is the virtual networking in QEMU/KVM/libvirt? can I just click into settings and 'add' a network interface? On 12/1/23 01:17, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 11/30/23 23:04, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I don't know how well QEMU/KVM/libvirt handle other disk images, like from VMware. I have

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 11/30/23 23:04, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I don't know how well QEMU/KVM/libvirt handle other disk images, like from VMware. I have done it. My Keeper: References: http://serverfault.com/questions/273982/virt-convert-ovf-to-kvm http://edoceo.com/notabene/ova-to-vmdk-to-qcow2 http:

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-12-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 11/30/23 23:11, Thomas Dineen wrote: "osx unlocker so I can run mac VM's" Help me out here in that I have very little experience with MAC OS: Are you running MAC OS in a VM? if yes how do you purchase MAC OS License? Thomas Dineen Hi Thomas, The OSx license states that you can only run

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-11-30 Thread Thomas Dineen
"osx unlocker so I can run mac VM's" Help me out here in that I have very little experience with MAC OS: Are you running MAC OS in a VM? if yes how do you purchase MAC OS License? Thomas Dineen On 11/30/2023 11:04 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 5:03 PM Sbob wrote: I am r

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-11-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 5:03 PM Sbob wrote: > > I am running Fedora39, I have run VMware workstation for years, and I > have on and off had issues since VMware does not officially support > Fedora, normally I run a patch after each kernel update and it mostly > just works. > > I am also running th

Re: Virtualbox not working on kernel 6.3

2023-06-07 Thread ogio.spam
Hello Samuel, first of all, I can confirm VBox is working disabling IBT. Il giorno mar, 06/06/2023 alle 23.59 -0700, Samuel Sieb ha scritto: > On 6/6/23 23:25, ogio.spam wrote: > > Hi all, > > there is a documented issue for Virtualbox and new kernels (6.3). > > All VMs stuck on starting. > > > >

Re: Virtualbox not working on kernel 6.3

2023-06-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/6/23 23:25, ogio.spam wrote: Hi all, there is a documented issue for Virtualbox and new kernels (6.3). All VMs stuck on starting. It seems to be a problem related with IBT (enable by default on new Fedora kernels) that causes the VM to refuse to load. One reference here: https://www.virt

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-28 Thread John Westerdale
Jamie, Great idea! Refine open projects into tools that folks all over will want to use! Open source works when it attracts contributions and gets more useful each time. John Westerdale Sr Container Consultant Red Hat NYC - He / Him / His - john.westerd...@redhat.co

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-28 Thread Andre Robatino
Oracle's F37 repo isn't available yet, but the latest RPM (VirtualBox-7.0-7.0.4_154605_fedora36-1.x86_64.rpm) works fine in F37, you just have to install it manually. This is common up to a few weeks after each release. It's also common for the latest RPM name to show an older Fedora version, t

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2022-11-28 at 10:36 -0500, Jamie Fargen wrote: > Fedora has long supported virtualization with libvirt and kvm, there > is a suitable gui interface via virt-manager to make it easier for > mere mortals to manage VMs, Images, etc. What are the considerations > in using these tools which are

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Jamie, On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:36 AM Jamie Fargen wrote: > > Fedora has long supported virtualization with libvirt and kvm, there > is a suitable gui interface via virt-manager to make it easier for > mere mortals to manage VMs, Images, etc. What are the considerations > in using these tool

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-28 Thread Jamie Fargen
Fedora has long supported virtualization with libvirt and kvm, there is a suitable gui interface via virt-manager to make it easier for mere mortals to manage VMs, Images, etc. What are the considerations in using these tools which are thoroughly tested and used by the Fedora community instead of c

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-28 Thread Luna Jernberg
Nice thats great too know :) On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:44 AM Jouk via users wrote: > > The F36 rpm installs/works also in F37. I installed it "manually" > ___ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-28 Thread Jouk via users
The F36 rpm installs/works also in F37. I installed it "manually" ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/pro

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-27 Thread Luna Jernberg
Was wondering the same thing some days ago On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 1:12 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I'm hoping someone has a contact at VirtualBox or Oracle and can nudge > someone to have VirtualBox updated for Feedora 37. > > * https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-26 Thread Barry
On 26 Nov 2022, at 00:12, Jeffrey Walton wrote:Hi Everyone,I'm hoping someone has a contact at VirtualBox or Oracle and can nudgesomeone to have VirtualBox updated for Feedora 37.  * https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedoraIf someone has a contact, please ping them.Rpmfusion has viru

Re: VirtualBox and VirtualBox-Server File Conflicts

2022-10-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 17/10/22 21:54, Jon Ingason via users wrote: Den 2022-10-17 kl. 10:48, skrev Stephen Morris: Hi,   I tried excluding the VirtualBox-server package but VirtualBox won't install without it. Why would you do that? You can't run VirtualBox without the server. Please read the information of t

Re: VirtualBox and VirtualBox-Server File Conflicts

2022-10-17 Thread Jon Ingason via users
Den 2022-10-17 kl. 10:48, skrev Stephen Morris: Hi, I tried excluding the VirtualBox-server package but VirtualBox won't install without it. Why would you do that? You can't run VirtualBox without the server. Please read the information of the VirtualBox rpm: rpm -qi VirtualBox VirtualBox

Re: VirtualBox and VirtualBox-Server File Conflicts

2022-10-17 Thread Jon Ingason via users
Den 2022-10-17 kl. 10:48, skrev Stephen Morris: Hi,     I'm trying to install Virtualbox from the Fedora repositories, which appears to be coming from the Rpmfusion-free-updates repository, and it has a hard requires on VirtualBox-Server, so the server package is brought in with the install.

Re: VirtualBox shared folder looses connection after a while

2019-02-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 3:04 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > I wonder if this is a potential attack vector? > > > > I don't think so as I believe it is done by one of the kernel modules and > > the requirement > > that the Guest Additions package needs to be installed on the guest. > > I mea

Re: VirtualBox shared folder looses connection after a while

2019-02-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2019-02-09 at 21:25 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2/9/19 8:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I wonder if this is a potential attack vector? > > I don't think so as I believe it is done by one of the kernel modules and the > requirement > that the Guest Additions package needs to be in

Re: VirtualBox shared folder looses connection after a while

2019-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2/9/19 8:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I wonder if this is a potential attack vector? I don't think so as I believe it is done by one of the kernel modules and the requirement that the Guest Additions package needs to be installed on the guest. -- Right: I dislike the default color sch

Re: VirtualBox shared folder looses connection after a while

2019-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2/9/19 8:24 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks for your answers, Patrick and Ed. I am now suspecting that the > cause the problem is not VirtualBox, but Windows 7, since there are > plenty of complaints on the Internet regarding file explorer > freezing... > > In my case, inside Windows, the shared

Re: VirtualBox shared folder looses connection after a while

2019-02-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 12:16 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > Of course your case may be completely different, but it's worth > > > checking your firewall settings just in case. > > > > I do not think the shared folder function of VirtualBox uses the network. > > I think you're right (I wonde

Re: VirtualBox shared folder looses connection after a while

2019-02-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2019-02-09 at 19:29 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 2/9/19 6:00 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Of course your case may be completely different, but it's worth > > checking your firewall settings just in case. > > I do not think the shared folder function of VirtualBox uses the network.

Re: VirtualBox shared folder looses connection after a while

2019-02-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2/9/19 6:00 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Of course your case may be completely different, but it's worth > checking your firewall settings just in case. I do not think the shared folder function of VirtualBox uses the network. I see no traffic between host and guest if I accesses the share

Re: VirtualBox shared folder looses connection after a while

2019-02-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2019-02-09 at 00:38 +, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:56 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > With the most recent versions of VirtualBox, the shared folder is not > > > working properly as before. > > > > > > My guest machine is running Windows 7, and the shared folder

Re: VirtualBox shared folder looses connection after a while

2019-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2/9/19 1:11 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > With the most recent versions of VirtualBox, the shared folder is not > working properly as before. > > My guest machine is running Windows 7, and the shared folder works > fine during some time. However, after some time, the connection to the >

Re: VirtualBox shared folder looses connection after a while

2019-02-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:56 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > With the most recent versions of VirtualBox, the shared folder is not > > working properly as before. > > > > My guest machine is running Windows 7, and the shared folder works > > fine during some time. However, after some time, th

Re: VirtualBox shared folder looses connection after a while

2019-02-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 17:11 +, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > With the most recent versions of VirtualBox, the shared folder is not > working properly as before. > > My guest machine is running Windows 7, and the shared folder works > fine during some time. However, after some time, the co

Re: VirtualBox and F26.

2017-07-12 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Thanks. Upgraded to F26 yesterday and VirtualBox works OK. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen On 2017-07-13 at 09:26:48 Alex Gurenko wrote: > I've been using it for last 2 months without any problems (F25 > version on F26) > > *---* > > *Yours truly, Alex* > > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Eri

Re: VirtualBox and F26.

2017-07-12 Thread Alex Gurenko
I've been using it for last 2 months without any problems (F25 version on F26) *---* *Yours truly, Alex* On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > Any known issues with VirtualBox on F26? > > -- > Regards, > Erik P. Olsen > ___ > user

Re: virtualbox and kernel 4.11.3-202.fc25.x86_64

2017-06-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On 28 June 2017 at 14:32, Frédéric Bron wrote: > I am afraid by doing what is suggested. Is it painless? > If you´re worried that removing VirtualBox will delete your existing VMs, it won´t. poc ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: virtualbox and kernel 4.11.3-202.fc25.x86_64

2017-06-28 Thread Frédéric Bron
> kmod-VirtualBox is supplied by rpmfusion. So, you may want to ask them? > > I use VirtualBox-5.1 supplied by http://www.virtualbox.org and their > repo without issues. How do you choose to install the version of one repo when you have 2 repos which have a version of the same package? I have ins

Re: virtualbox and kernel 4.11.3-202.fc25.x86_64

2017-06-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/14/17 20:46, François Patte wrote: > I installed the last kernel (4.11.3-202.fc25.x86_64) today and there are > no more virtualbox modules for this kernel: > kmod-VirtualBox-5.1.20-1.fc25.x86_64 is empty and so systemd complains > at boot time that virtualbox modules cannot be loaded > >

Re: VirtualBox does not work after selinux update

2017-02-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:13 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >>> Let me add that I am using Oracle VirtualBox (from >>> http://www.virtualbox.org/): >>> >>> VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.14_112924_fedora25-1.x86_64 >> As am I >> >> The procedure I gave you will get you going as I did me. >> >> I'll report this

Re: VirtualBox does not work after selinux update

2017-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/27/17 04:42, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 02/26/17 23:15, Paul Smith wrote: >> Let me add that I am using Oracle VirtualBox (from >> http://www.virtualbox.org/): >> >> VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.14_112924_fedora25-1.x86_64 > As am I > > The procedure I gave you will get you going as I did me. > > I'll

Re: VirtualBox does not work after selinux update

2017-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/26/17 23:15, Paul Smith wrote: > Let me add that I am using Oracle VirtualBox (from > http://www.virtualbox.org/): > > VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.14_112924_fedora25-1.x86_64 As am I The procedure I gave you will get you going as I did me. I'll report this against selinux soon. -- Fedora Use

Re: VirtualBox does not work after selinux update

2017-02-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:27 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >>> After doing the updates of today (selinux included), virtualbox stopped working: # /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules. vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services. >>

Re: VirtualBox does not work after selinux update

2017-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/26/17 22:27, Paul Smith wrote: > But after doing > > dnf --allowerasing downgrade selinux-policy selinux-policy-targeted > > the reported problem disappears. I just wanted to add to what I just posted. The system I thought was fully updated wasn't. After updating to the latest selinux

Re: VirtualBox does not work after selinux update

2017-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/26/17 22:27, Paul Smith wrote: > But after doing > > dnf --allowerasing downgrade selinux-policy selinux-policy-targeted > > the reported problem disappears. OK Then, after upgrading the selinux again and rebooting or rmmod what is already loaded Try ausearch -c 'modprobe' --raw |

Re: VirtualBox does not work after selinux update

2017-02-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 2:18 PM, Paul Smith wrote: >> >>> After doing the updates of today (selinux included), virtualbox stopped >>> working: >>> >>> # /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup >>> vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules. >>> vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services. >>> vboxd

Re: VirtualBox does not work after selinux update

2017-02-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> After doing the updates of today (selinux included), virtualbox stopped >> working: >> >> # /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup >> vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules. >> vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services. >> vboxdrv.sh:

Re: VirtualBox does not work after selinux update

2017-02-26 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/26/17 19:37, Paul Smith wrote: > After doing the updates of today (selinux included), virtualbox stopped > working: > > # /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxdrv.sh setup > vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules. > vboxdrv.sh: Starting VirtualBox services. > vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kerne

Re: Virtualbox -

2015-12-25 Thread Markku Kolkka
23.12.2015, 17:01, Bob Goodwin kirjoitti: > The original DVD download was 4+ GB but was missing things like the > GNOME Desktop which I thought odd, I expected it to at least provide a > typical basic system? Those "things" aren't missing, you simply didn't choose to install them. The installer ca

Re: Virtualbox -

2015-12-23 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/20/15 19:07, Ed Greshko wrote: >What am I missing? I don't have CentOS or SL at the moment. But, since Centos is based on RedHat and the packages are probably pretty much the same as fedora it sounds like you didn't choose a desktop environment at install. /usr/bin/startx probably is f

Re: Virtualbox -

2015-12-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/20/15 20:37, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Using Virtualbox in an updated F23 I've installed VM's for Fedora, Centos, and > Scientific Linux. > > Fedora 21 xfce live because I happened to have it handy, the others from the > DVD iso's. > > Fedora21 boots and runs as expected. the others boot and ru

Re: Virtualbox -

2015-12-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 12/20/15 17:27, Fernando Cassia wrote: What Virtualbox release are you using?. An updated Virtualbox has been released (5.0.12) last Friday if I remember correctly, it contains fixes for running the latest versions fo RHEL (7.2). Maybe indirectly it will also help with CentOS. I'm just

Re: Virtualbox -

2015-12-20 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > Fedora21 boots and runs as expected. the others boot and run with a text > screen but startx reports "command not found" and a ping to other than > localhost, reports network unreachable. > > What am I missing? > > Bob > Bob, What Virtualbox

Re: VirtualBox 5.0.10 network problem

2015-12-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:25:21 -0500 Fred Smith wrote: > I always use NAT, I've never figured out how to make a bridged > network function in a VM on VBox. You have to have a physical interface attached to the bridge as well as virtual ones. God alone only knows how you do that with NetworkManager,

Re: VirtualBox 5.0.10 network problem

2015-12-17 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 07:55:53PM +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I have the Oracle version of VBox (VirtualBox-5.0- > 5.0.10_104061_fedora22-1.x86_64) and it usually doesn't give any > issues, but now (under F23) my Windows 7 guest has no network access. I > have the appropriate VBox extensio

Re: VirtualBox 5.0.10 network problem

2015-12-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 13:43 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > > On 12/17/2015 01:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 13:08 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 12/17/2015 12:55 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > I have the Oracle version of VBox (VirtualBox-5.0- > > > > 5.0.10_104061_fed

Re: VirtualBox 5.0.10 network problem

2015-12-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 15:51 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:22:47 + > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Of course if the whole iptables thing has changed after some > > update, > > how would I know? > > Well, somewhere in there the iptables stuff was "replaced" with > firewa

Re: VirtualBox 5.0.10 network problem

2015-12-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:22:47 + Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Of course if the whole iptables thing has changed after some update, > how would I know? Well, somewhere in there the iptables stuff was "replaced" with firewalld. You might want to make sure firewalld is disabled and iptables is ena

Re: VirtualBox 5.0.10 network problem

2015-12-17 Thread jd1008
On 12/17/2015 01:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 13:08 -0700, jd1008 wrote: On 12/17/2015 12:55 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I have the Oracle version of VBox (VirtualBox-5.0- 5.0.10_104061_fedora22-1.x86_64) and it usually doesn't give any issues, but now (under F23

Re: VirtualBox 5.0.10 network problem

2015-12-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 14:15 -0600, kevin martin wrote: > ip forwarding on?  did you disable netfilter on bridging in > /etc/sysctl.conf? I haven't touched either of these, ever, and my current F23 was updated from F22, which came from F21 etc. so any changes should have been visible in rpmnew file

Re: VirtualBox 5.0.10 network problem

2015-12-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 13:08 -0700, jd1008 wrote: > > On 12/17/2015 12:55 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I have the Oracle version of VBox (VirtualBox-5.0- > > 5.0.10_104061_fedora22-1.x86_64) and it usually doesn't give any > > issues, but now (under F23) my Windows 7 guest has no network > >

Re: VirtualBox 5.0.10 network problem

2015-12-17 Thread kevin martin
ip forwarding on? did you disable netfilter on bridging in /etc/sysctl.conf? --- Regards, Kevin Martin On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 2:08 PM, jd1008 wrote: > > > On 12/17/2015 12:55 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> I have the Oracle version of VBox (VirtualBox-5.0- >> 5.0.10_104061_fedora22-

Re: VirtualBox 5.0.10 network problem

2015-12-17 Thread jd1008
On 12/17/2015 12:55 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I have the Oracle version of VBox (VirtualBox-5.0- 5.0.10_104061_fedora22-1.x86_64) and it usually doesn't give any issues, but now (under F23) my Windows 7 guest has no network access. I have the appropriate VBox extension installed, and have

Re: VirtualBox 5.0 and UEFI secure boot

2015-11-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/29/2015 04:41 PM, Celso Viana wrote: How do I solve this problem without having to disable secure boot? Enroll your own key and sign the modules. Secure boot requires signatures all along the line: the firmware, the boot loader, the kernel, and the modules. https://access.redhat.com/d

Re: Virtualbox size -

2014-09-09 Thread Steven Stern
On 09/09/2014 03:46 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 09/09/14 16:42, Fred Smith wrote: >> Did you install the "Guest Additions" ? with that installed you should >> be able to drag the window edges/corners to whatever size you want. >> without >> it you'll get only certain standa

Re: Virtualbox size -

2014-09-09 Thread Kevin Martin
On 09/09/2014 03:46 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 09/09/14 16:42, Fred Smith wrote: >> Did you install the "Guest Additions" ? with that installed you should >> be able to drag the window edges/corners to whatever size you want. without >> it you'll get only certain standard

Re: Virtualbox size -

2014-09-09 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 09/09/14 16:42, Fred Smith wrote: Did you install the "Guest Additions" ? with that installed you should be able to drag the window edges/corners to whatever size you want. without it you'll get only certain standard (low) resolutions. No, that sounds like something I might find in yum? I'

Re: Virtualbox size -

2014-09-09 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:38:23PM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > Virtual box seems to work ok but it only produces a 12 inch window > on this 23 inch monitor and after extensive googling I have not > found a way to make it bigger. > > Perhaps someone can tell me how? > > B

Re: VirtualBox -

2014-09-06 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 09/05/14 20:32, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sep 5, 2014, at 9:42 AM, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: What am I doing wrong, this shouldn't be so complicated? Or is it? It think it's complicated. I honestly think you're better off using Boxes, which is installed by default with Fed

Re: VirtualBox -

2014-09-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 5, 2014, at 9:42 AM, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" wrote: > What am I doing wrong, this shouldn't be so complicated? Or is it? It think it's complicated. I honestly think you're better off using Boxes, which is installed by default with Fedora 20. Maybe also Fedora 19. In any ca

Re: VirtualBox -

2014-09-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 19:03 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 16:39:37 -0600 > Pete Travis wrote: > > > This sounds like you're just looking for *some* way to run a VM. > > I don't know about him, but some software I need to run in > a Windows 7 VM needs 3D acceleration to work (not

Re: VirtualBox -

2014-09-05 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 16:39:37 -0600 Pete Travis wrote: > This sounds like you're just looking for *some* way to run a VM. I don't know about him, but some software I need to run in a Windows 7 VM needs 3D acceleration to work (not fast, just at all :-). That doesn't seem to function with QXL/Spice

Re: VirtualBox -

2014-09-05 Thread Pete Travis
On Sep 5, 2014 10:07 AM, "Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA" < bobgood...@wildblue.net> wrote: > > > On 09/05/14 11:52, Kevin Martin wrote: >> >> How did you install VirtualBox (via kmod/akmod or from virtualbox.org)? Have you recently updated your kernel? If you've done the >> latter then you'll

Re: VirtualBox -

2014-09-05 Thread Kevin Martin
On 09/05/2014 05:06 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 13:45 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: >> On 09/05/2014 11:06 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: >>> >>> On 09/05/14 11:52, Kevin Martin wrote: > > Just to be clear: if you keep to the standard Fedora kernels there's n

Re: VirtualBox -

2014-09-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 22:02 +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: > On Friday, September 05, 2014 05:02:06 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Did you get the package from the Fedora repo or from the VirtualBox.org > > repo? > > You might be talking about RPMFusion version and Virtualbox.org version. Yes, >

Re: VirtualBox -

2014-09-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 13:45 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote: > On 09/05/2014 11:06 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > > > On 09/05/14 11:52, Kevin Martin wrote: > >> How did you install VirtualBox (via kmod/akmod or from virtualbox.org)? > >> Have you recently updated your kernel? If yo

Re: VirtualBox -

2014-09-05 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 09/05/14 16:28, Sudhir Khanger wrote: yum info `rpm -qa | grep -i virtualbox` It appears to be rpmfusion: [bobg@box10 ~]$ yum info `rpm -qa | grep -i virtualbox` Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit Installed Packages Name: VirtualBox Arch: x86_64 Version : 4.3.

Re: VirtualBox -

2014-09-05 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > I'm confused about what version I'm running. The XFCE menu shows Oracle VM > VirtualBox. When I tried to RPM install the kmod/akmod stuff it was already > there. Apparently the Oracle version is what is giving me trouble?

Re: VirtualBox -

2014-09-05 Thread Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 09/05/14 14:45, Kevin Martin wrote: I gave up on the version from rpmfusion since they are unable to keep up with kernel updates from what I can tell and the akmod would fail to rebuild. I downloaded the version from VirtualBox.org, checked to see what patches I might need for the kernel I

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