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

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. > > P

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 anythi

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 Ma

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

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). Fo

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

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

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'

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

VirtualBox no longer working? Loads but gets error message.

2024-12-19 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
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 link that talks about fixing on Ubuntu, but options

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
> seemed OK apart that my Windows VM running in VirtualBox did not > capture the mouse (quite annoying!). I run VirtualBox 7.0.18-1.fc40 > from rpmfusion-free-updates. > > I tried all options for the mouse (PS/2 mouse, USB tablet, multi-touch > USB tablet and USB MT TouchScreen and

Re: VirtualBox does not run on Wayland

2024-07-06 Thread John Pilkington
running in VirtualBox did not capture the mouse (quite annoying!). I run VirtualBox 7.0.18-1.fc40 from rpmfusion-free-updates. I tried all options for the mouse (PS/2 mouse, USB tablet, multi-touch USB tablet and USB MT TouchScreen and TouchPad) but nothing worked. The VirtualBox menu above the VM

Re: VirtualBox does not run on Wayland

2024-07-06 Thread Sérgio Basto
ved to F40 and Plasma came only with Wayland. Then, everything > seemed OK apart that my Windows VM running in VirtualBox did not > capture the mouse (quite annoying!). I run VirtualBox 7.0.18-1.fc40 > from rpmfusion-free-updates. Running VirtualBox as server ? and what are the guest syst

VirtualBox does not run on Wayland

2024-07-06 Thread Frédéric
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 running in VirtualBox did not capture

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2024-02-08 Thread murph nj
ation 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 the osx unlocker so I can run mac VM's > > > I recently tri

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

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
;s I recently tried virtualbox on a spare laptop, havent looked at virtualbox in years, and I was impressed, a few questions for the community: - 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 brea

Re: Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-11-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
gt; I am also running the osx unlocker so I can run mac VM's > > I recently tried virtualbox on a spare laptop, havent looked at > virtualbox in years, and I was impressed, a few questions for the community: > >- can I run the osx unlocker with virtualbox? > >- does

Virtualbox vs VMware for Fedora?

2023-11-30 Thread Sbob
s I recently tried virtualbox on a spare laptop, havent looked at virtualbox in years, and I was impressed, a few questions for the community:   -  can I run the osx unlocker with virtualbox?   - does virtualbox have the same issues where it needs a patch after each kernel and sometimes   

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

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

Virtualbox not working on kernel 6.3

2023-06-06 Thread ogio.spam
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.virtualbox.org/ticket/21435 I'll t

Re: VMs under VirtualBox didn't start anymore (maybeufter upgrade)

2023-06-02 Thread ogio.spam
After some tests, the problem is with kernel 6.3.4. Both RPMFusion and VirtualBox packages are not working. I'll try to post bug also to the RPMFusion support. Bye  Ogio Il giorno gio, 01/06/2023 alle 19.54 +0200, ogio.spam ha scritto: > Hi all, > I had a VirtualBox environment

VMs under VirtualBox didn't start anymore (maybeufter upgrade)

2023-06-01 Thread ogio.spam
Hi all, I had a VirtualBox environment working in Fedora 38 using RPM Fusion package. Today I needed to start a VM and it hangs on starting at 20% I thought it was a disk full, but it's not the case. I rebooted my PC and tryed with a different VM but the result was the same. So I re

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-16 Thread stan via users
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:45:09 +0100 Barry wrote: > Its not a check as such. > Masking means the service is defined as /dev/null, hard to start when > there is nothing defined. True that. :-) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To un

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-16 Thread stan via users
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 07:38:56 -0700 stan wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 04:59:48 - > "Andre Robatino" wrote: > > > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700 > > > Jonathan Ryshpan > > > > > > > > I masked systemd-oomd.service because I have real swap, > > > > Masking it is unreliable becaus

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-16 Thread Barry
> On 16 Apr 2023, at 15:39, stan via users > wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 04:59:48 - > "Andre Robatino" wrote: > >>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700 >>> Jonathan Ryshpan >> >>> >>> I masked systemd-oomd.service because I have real swap, >> >> Masking it is unreliable because i

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-16 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 04:59:48 - "Andre Robatino" wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700 > > Jonathan Ryshpan > > > > > I masked systemd-oomd.service because I have real swap, > > Masking it is unreliable because it might start running again if > system-oomd-defaults is updated or

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 3:48 PM Andre Robatino wrote: > > I don't know enough about systemd to think that's even a bug - I had assumed > it was normal behavior. In any case the bug that was forcing me to disable > the OOM killer ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2177722 ) has > been

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-15 Thread Andre Robatino
I don't know enough about systemd to think that's even a bug - I had assumed it was normal behavior. In any case the bug that was forcing me to disable the OOM killer ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2177722 ) has been fixed so I'm not disabling it anymore. _

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 1:05 PM Andre Robatino wrote: > > On F37, masking was the first thing I tried. Then after a systemd update, I > noticed it was running again, even though it was still masked (verified by > "systemctl status systemd-oomd" which showed it both running and masked at > the s

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-15 Thread Andre Robatino
On F37, masking was the first thing I tried. Then after a systemd update, I noticed it was running again, even though it was still masked (verified by "systemctl status systemd-oomd" which showed it both running and masked at the same time). ___ users

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-15 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/14/23 22:06, Andre Robatino wrote: I just tried masking/reinstalling just now and it didn't restart. I experienced it before with a systemd update so it might require that. But masking is definitely not 100% effective. Masking should be 100% effective. It changes files in /etc which sho

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-14 Thread Andre Robatino
I just tried masking/reinstalling just now and it didn't restart. I experienced it before with a systemd update so it might require that. But masking is definitely not 100% effective. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscrib

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-14 Thread Andre Robatino
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700 > Jonathan Ryshpan > > I masked systemd-oomd.service because I have real swap, Masking it is unreliable because it might start running again if system-oomd-defaults is updated or reinstalled. (To check this, try reinstalling it.) It's better to just remove

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
on, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan Ryshpan > > > > wrote:  > > > > > Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, > > > > > in > > > > > particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the > > > >

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-11 Thread Doug Herr
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023, at 5:52 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in > particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; [snip] I assume it is not just starting the VirtualBox Manager that is doing this. It might help to kn

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 08:30 -0700, stan via users wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700 > Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 22:21 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan Ryshpan > > > wrote:  > > > > S

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-11 Thread Tom Horsley
This is unlikely to be the problem, but it is a fun story: Many years ago there was a bug in the KVM kernel code that failed to correctly context switch all the registers in virtual machines. In this case, the somewhat obscure debug registers. So if I was running debugger tests inside a virtual ma

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-11 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:59:59 -0700 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 22:21 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan Ryshpan > > wrote: > > > Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in > > >

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 15:46 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 17:52 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Libreoffice attempts to restore files being worked on (but it failed > > to restore about 2 hours' worth of work). > > Some thirty-plus years ago I learnt to regularly press "CT

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 22:21 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan Ryshpan > wrote: > > Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in > > particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the > > console. Fire

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 01:15 +, C. Linus Hicks wrote: > Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in > particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the console. > Firefox and Thunderbird just stop; Libreoffice attempts to restore > files being

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-10 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 17:52 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Libreoffice attempts to restore files being worked on (but it failed > to restore about 2 hours' worth of work). Some thirty-plus years ago I learnt to regularly press "CTRL S" to save the current status of whatever I was working on, bec

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-10 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 8:53 PM Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in particular > Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the console. Firefox and > Thunderbird just stop; Libreoffice attempts to restore files being wor

Re: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-10 Thread C. Linus Hicks
Subject: Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the console. Firefox and Thunderbird just stop; Libreoffice attempts to restore files being worked on (but it fail

Running VirtualBox Crashes Other Apps

2023-04-10 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
Starting Oracle's VirtualBox has started to crash other apps, in particular Thunderbird, Firefox, and Libreoffice; but not the console. Firefox and Thunderbird just stop; Libreoffice attempts to restore files being worked on (but it failed to restore about 2 hours' worth of work). Has a

Re: Upgraded from 35 to 36, and noticed that VirtualBox wasn't working with 6.0.15, but would with 6.0.14?

2022-12-26 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 26 Dec 2022 at 8:37, John Mellor wrote: From: John Mellor Date sent: Mon, 26 Dec 2022 08:37:42 -0500 Subject:Re: Upgraded from 35 to 36, and noticed that VirtualBox wasn't working with 6.0.15, but would with 6.0.14? To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Send rep

Re: Upgraded from 35 to 36, and noticed that VirtualBox wasn't working with 6.0.15, but would with 6.0.14?

2022-12-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 7:30 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: > > Appears there is kmod-VirtualBox-6.0.14-200.fc36.x86_64-7.0.4-1.fc36.x86_64 > but not a version for 6.0.15 yet? > Gave message the vboxdrv wasn't loaded, but ran the commands it said, but > guess wit

Re: Upgraded from 35 to 36, and noticed that VirtualBox wasn't working with 6.0.15, but would with 6.0.14?

2022-12-26 Thread John Mellor
On 2022-12-26 07:29, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: Appears there is kmod-VirtualBox-6.0.14-200.fc36.x86_64-7.0.4-1.fc36.x86_64 but not a version for 6.0.15 yet? Gave message the vboxdrv wasn't loaded, but ran the commands it said, but guess without the package, it couldn't

Upgraded from 35 to 36, and noticed that VirtualBox wasn't working with 6.0.15, but would with 6.0.14?

2022-12-26 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
Appears there is kmod-VirtualBox-6.0.14-200.fc36.x86_64-7.0.4-1.fc36.x86_64 but not a version for 6.0.15 yet? Gave message the vboxdrv wasn't loaded, but ran the commands it said, but guess without the package, it couldn't build the module. But was able to boot with 6.0.14, and do t

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

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-28 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
. For those who are a little put off by this, and don't mind using a non-FOSS solution, the free-as-in-beer versions of VirtualBox or VMware Workstation cover the majority of use cases more easily (as long as you don't need PCI pass-through). poc

Re: VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
in using these tools which are thoroughly tested and used by the > Fedora community instead of combining these external tools which may > not be tested and quickly available with each iteration of Fedora > releases? I have an existing VirtualBox VM setup for Windows 10 Pro x64. I needed

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.vir

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.Rpmfusio

VirtualBox and Fedora 37

2022-11-25 Thread Jeffrey Walton
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/fedora If someone has a contact, please ping them. Thanks in ad

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 info

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

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 in

VirtualBox and VirtualBox-Server File Conflicts

2022-10-17 Thread 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. The issue is the two packages have a numb

Re: Fedora 30, vagrant and VirtualBox

2020-04-16 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/16/20 9:12 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: Hi, I just noticed that there's some mismatch with the version of vagrant for my Fedora 30 and the version of VirtualBox I have: I don't see any updated in the *testing repos. Ahi idea why we got this mismatch? virtualbox is not included

Re: Fedora 30, vagrant and VirtualBox

2020-04-16 Thread Martín Marqués
> > > I just noticed that there's some mismatch with the version of vagrant for > my Fedora 30 and the version of VirtualBox I have: > I found this blog which explains how to workaround the mismatch: https://blogs.oracle.com/scoter/getting-vagrant-226-working-with-virtualbox-

Fedora 30, vagrant and VirtualBox

2020-04-16 Thread Martín Marqués
Hi, I just noticed that there's some mismatch with the version of vagrant for my Fedora 30 and the version of VirtualBox I have: ``` The provider 'virtualbox' that was requested to back the machine 'ironman' is reporting that it isn't usable on this system. The r

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread sixpack13
On 10.04.20 20:57, Samuel Sieb wrote: ... I raw boot a second disk with vbox. I currently don't know if it's possible to do so with kvm - I should check it ... - It's easy.  Just add the raw device as a hard drive.  You can even setup a qcow2 overlay so any changes get stored separately and d

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 4/10/20 5:23 AM, sixpack13 wrote: On 10.04.20 13:54, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-04-10 19:52, sixpack13 wrote: On 10.04.20 13:24, Ed Greshko wrote: ... Good to know. Yet, I am happier now that I've switched to qemu/kvm.  :-) I raw boot a second disk with vbox. I currently don't know

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread sixpack13
On 10.04.20 13:54, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-04-10 19:52, sixpack13 wrote: On 10.04.20 13:24, Ed Greshko wrote: ... Good to know. Yet, I am happier now that I've switched to qemu/kvm.  :-) I raw boot a second disk with vbox. I currently don't know if it's possible to do so with kvm -

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-04-10 19:52, sixpack13 wrote: > On 10.04.20 13:24, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 19:01 Joachim Backes > > wrote: >> >> >>     Hello Ed, >> >>     thanks for your reply, but i found these URL's too, and it seems that >>     the kernel

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread sixpack13
On 10.04.20 13:24, Ed Greshko wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 19:01 Joachim Backes mailto:joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de>> wrote: Hello Ed, thanks for your reply, but i found these URL's too, and it seems that the kernel 5.6.3 needs to be patched... brr No simple  solutio

Re: problems to run vboxconfig [VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.4_136177_fedora31-1.x86_64] under kernel 5.6.3-300.fc31.x86_64

2020-04-10 Thread Ed Greshko
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 19:01 Joachim Backes wrote: > > Hello Ed, > > thanks for your reply, but i found these URL's too, and it seems that > the kernel 5.6.3 needs to be patched... brr > > No simple solution? > IMO, 2 simple solutions. Don't run 5.6 kernel until Oracle gets its act together

dnf upgrade with Virtualbox system dumps to grub limited?

2019-07-25 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
Had an i386 Virtual Box setup that was running Fedora 28. Did the upgrade from the 28 to 30 using the dnf update process, and it seemed to run just fine. Downloaded all the files, and then did the reboot. Watched it do all the updates, cleanups, and verify, and then the reboot after the process c

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-27 Thread Chris Murphy
k, network, ecc..). > > After few days my friend say me that the win10 is slow and less efficient > than same installation on another PC with VirtualBox. > He told me "virtualbox is better and faster" What backing storage is the VM using? qcow2, raw, LVM? If it's a file, what file

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-24 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mer, 24/04/2019 alle 11.26 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan ha scritto: > You haven't said which version of Win10 your friend has Win10pro Thanks -- Dario Lesca (inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 29 Workstation) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.f

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 11:07 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote: > Il giorno mar, 23/04/2019 alle 21.39 -0700, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: > > Is the user interfacing with the VM through virt-manager, or over > > RDP? My experience has been that, although Spice is better than VNC, > > interfacing with the vir

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-24 Thread Dario Lesca
Il giorno mar, 23/04/2019 alle 21.39 -0700, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: > Is the user interfacing with the VM through virt-manager, or over > RDP? My experience has been that, although Spice is better than VNC, > interfacing with the virtual console is noticeably less responsive > than RDP. My fri

Re: Fedora Virtualization (quemu/kvm) vs Virtualbox

2019-04-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 4/10/19 8:18 AM, Dario Lesca wrote: Il giorno mar, 09/04/2019 alle 19.53 -0700, Gordon Messmer ha scritto: Can you post the content of /etc/libvirt/qemu/.xml? see attach. It looks like this host is using virtio drivers for disk and network, and that's usually the important bits.  It's p

Re: Can't install VirtualBox Guest Additions. SOLVED .

2019-04-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 15:30 Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > > Thanks. Is a build for 6.0.6 available similar to the testbuild for 6.0.x? > I have their repo configured so it was updated by dnf. > ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To uns

Re: Can't install VirtualBox Guest Additions. SOLVED .

2019-04-17 Thread Erik P. Olsen
> > behold, the screen did actually resize. And all is well. > > Good, and FWIW, VirtualBox-6.0-6 was just released which contains the Guest > Additions > fix and more. > Thanks. Is a build for 6.0.6 available similar to the

Re: Can't install VirtualBox Guest Additions. SOLVED .

2019-04-16 Thread Ed Greshko
Good, and FWIW, VirtualBox-6.0-6 was just released which contains the Guest Additions fix and more. -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsu

Re: Can't install VirtualBox Guest Additions. SOLVED .

2019-04-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2019-04-17 at 02:24:08 Ed Greshko wrote: > On 4/16/19 10:37 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > Thanks a lot. Did install it and now this problem was solved. However, a > > new problem > > showed up: the screen auto resize did not work. Maybe I should get in > > contact with > > Oracle about it. Hop

Re: Can't install VirtualBox Guest Additions. SOLVED and a new problem.

2019-04-16 Thread Ed Greshko
On 4/16/19 10:37 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > Thanks a lot. Did install it and now this problem was solved. However, a new > problem > showed up: the screen auto resize did not work. Maybe I should get in contact > with Oracle > about it. Hope they will listen. Did you reboot?  I have no issues.

Re: Can't install VirtualBox Guest Additions. SOLVED and a new problem.

2019-04-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
t;> > >>>> Which is why I posted mine.  :-) :-) > >>> Oops!  How did I miss that?  Presumably he has a different problem > >>> then... > >> I think the problem is the same.  It is also reported on RH EL7 on the > >> VirtualBox >

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