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Offline ricky

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #45 on: August 16, 2010, 03:12:40 AM »
May be it's of interest:
Installing and running VirtualBox-3.2.6-63112-Linux_amd64.run within Fatdog64(Puppy Linux) is quite easy, if you  installed already fd64-devx_500.sfs , python-2.6.4-amd64.pet, qt4-4.6.1.pet, tcl-8.5.8.pet and tk-8.5.8.pet.

Offline dWLkR

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #46 on: August 16, 2010, 04:27:11 AM »
thx ricky!

but the host-os should be smaller - so TCL is 1st choice for this project!

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #47 on: August 16, 2010, 07:07:53 AM »
dWLkR, unfortunately you are right.

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #48 on: September 06, 2010, 10:57:39 PM »
lo!

do we have a new status?

tia! :]

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #49 on: September 13, 2010, 01:35:15 AM »
*bump* ;)

Offline uggla

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #50 on: September 21, 2010, 02:31:26 AM »
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But when I did "sudo VirtualBox" in the Terminal (aterm), I received "/usr/bin/VirtualBox: exec: line 105: /opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox: not found". As I looked in /opt/VirtualBox the file VirtualBox was present..

Why it can't find this file although is present ? Is that a mistake of the linux-headers or of busybox ?

I got that message when trying to run some scripts. Loadning bash.tcz solved it for me.

/Uggla
« Last Edit: September 21, 2010, 02:35:20 AM by uggla »

Offline dWLkR

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #51 on: October 04, 2010, 07:31:09 AM »
hi!

it's me again! :D

is it out yet?

seemingly my wish having a small footprint client hypervisor is too crazy...

Offline danielibarnes

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #52 on: October 04, 2010, 09:42:27 AM »
Now that it's been six months, how close are you to your goal? Have you done a qemu/vbox/vmware comparison? Is there one in particular that has a feature you need which is not available in the others?

VMware: I've seen posts where vmware player runs on TC but you'll never see an extension due to restrictions on distribution. The most you can get is step-by-step installation instructions, and I think I saw someone do that. I know that VMware Tools work in TC.

VBox: AFAIK this app and tools work in TC 2.x, right?

Qemu: Already exists in 3.x. The easiest route.

I'd like to see a "small footprint client hypervisor" as well. I wish I had the time to work on it.

Offline uggla

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #53 on: October 04, 2010, 11:56:03 AM »
Now that it's been six months, how close are you to your goal? Have you done a qemu/vbox/vmware comparison? Is there one in particular that has a feature you need which is not available in the others?
I need usb-support for some devices that isn't supported by Linux. That is possible with standard (non OSE) Virtualbox.
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Qemu: Already exists in 3.x. The easiest route.
A gui would be nice  ;)

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #54 on: October 04, 2010, 01:43:13 PM »
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I need usb-support for some devices that isn't supported by Linux. That is possible with standard (non OSE) Virtualbox.
You can do this in Qemu: Using a USB device in QEMU. I don't know if the release provided by the extension includes this feature, though. If not, you can use USB Server for Linux. Alternatively, VMware Server supports this natively.

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Qemu: Already exists in 3.x. The easiest route.
A gui would be nice  ;)

The QEMU wiki has some info on GUI front ends. These would make good extensions.

Offline Arslan S.

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #55 on: October 05, 2010, 02:57:27 AM »
what is the problem here preventing virtualbox to be in tc 3.x repo

is the previous maintainer (Kingdomcome) left or does not want to do it anymore ?

if so i want to take care of virtualbox for tc 3.x or if Kingdomcome is still in the loop can you say smth here please ?
« Last Edit: October 05, 2010, 03:16:36 AM by Arslan S. »

Offline Arslan S.

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #56 on: October 07, 2010, 01:41:52 PM »
i have good news and bad news
good news is virtualbox for tc 3.x is compiled
bad news is there is a problem with guest addition vboxvideo xorg module, X server crashes with segmentation fault

xorg log is attached to this post

Offline dWLkR

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #57 on: October 15, 2010, 02:52:03 AM »
thank you very much for your updates!

since i am not a linux specialist - and honestly i am not willing to follow a 4-5 page compiling and stuff tutorial - for me it would just be REALLY, REALLY nice to see virtualbox OSE in the repository -> click'n'forget! :)

any? :D

Offline Arslan S.

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #58 on: October 15, 2010, 07:04:58 AM »
Virtualbox host is working good but the problem is with guest addition xorg video driver

Offline maro

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Re: software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox
« Reply #59 on: October 15, 2010, 02:26:00 PM »
Arslan, have you noticed that VBox v3.2.10 has come out a few days ago? Might me worth another attempt, as they've fixed stuff for the more recent X server, so maybe as a side effect the problem you ran into is resolved as well.