software wanted: vmware player and/or virtualbox

[ricky]

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.

[dWLkR]

thx ricky!

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

[ricky]

dWLkR, unfortunately you are right.

[dWLkR]

lo!

do we have a new status?

tia! :]

[dWLkR]

*bump*

[uggla]

...
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

[dWLkR]

hi!

it's me again!

is it out yet?

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

[danielibarnes]

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.

[uggla]

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.

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

A gui would be nice 

[danielibarnes]

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.

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.

[Arslan S.]

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 ?

[Arslan S.]

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

[dWLkR]

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?

[Arslan S.]

Virtualbox host is working good but the problem is with guest addition xorg video driver

[maro]

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.