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[vanchutr]

Download 2 files at
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b2h69ab/n/startvb.sh -> INST
AL script
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b4336h2/n/cvbox-3.2.4.tar.gz -> binary file
Please test it (it can work in lupu5x, lupq03, qurky-120 and any other pup with kernel 2.6.33.x?)

[Mark_C]

Thank you, these files worked for me on Lucid Puppy 5.1.1 RC
I also used the VB Guest Additions Pet from http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/NOP/

[TheAsterisk!]

Works very nicely on my installation of Lucid Puppy 511 (and a fresh, empty installation of 511, too), with no apparent problems at all. Thanks.

In fact, it works nicely enough that I packaged it into a PET, modifying the linked script very slightly to work as a pinstall.sh script. (Hope you don't mind.)

The package is around 23 MB, and expanded and installed it's maybe 60 MB.

EDIT: I'm deleting my dot-pets for VBox 3.2.4. They seem redundant with the packages I've made for 3.2.8 and for 4.0.0.
If you need any further information, or if you need a copy and no mirrors are working, then please send me a PM.

The original binary included the guest additions CD image and the user manual as a PDF, but I've removed them from the package to try to save some space. If you need them, they can still be found on Oracle's site for VBox version 3.2.4, here, right near the top.


Anyway, thanks again for the binary. I've tried not a few times to get VBox running in Lucid Puppy, with spotty or no success, but your binary worked without fuss.

[shinobar]

Thanks, vanchutr and TheAsterisk!

[shinobar]

[sc0ttman]

I've tried this package and it works perfectly for me, but only when I am not using a save file

When I use a save file, I get the popup message about 'vboxdrv' not starting when trying to load my guest OSs..

When it doesn't work (when I use a save file) it gives me a command to use..
But when I execute the command given by VirtualBox in the terminal, it says 'vboxdrv not found'..

Please note, I've tested both the pet and sfs packages..

Anyone had this too? Any help please?? I really want this to work with my default install of LupQ..

My default install is a frugal LupQ install on ext3, with OpenGL enabled ('nvidia' driver used)..

[vanchutr]

Thanks for testing
To Sc0ttman
Please test the package I'd posted in first post of this subjet (the tar package). May be these works. (I don't suggest to use the sfs packages because I'd packed Virtual Box with tar and I don't know how to convert it to sfs).
Thanks to all

[sc0ttman]

[shinobar]

[sc0ttman]

[shinobar]

[sc0ttman]

[TheAsterisk!]

@sc0ttman:

If you're using the SFS with your save file, the same kind of thing used to happen to me with an older SFS of VBox under Puppy 431. As I remember it, it had something to do with the priority of SFS loading- VBox wouldn't 'write' into some of the directories the kernel source SFS or the devx SFS used as they showed up in the whole file system. (I eventually got around it by combining the kernel source and devx files into one SFS, but that's another matter.) Basically, nothing in /lib/modules/2.6.33.2/misc/ was loaded from the VBox SFS, and that's pretty important since that's where the drivers for VBox sit.

You could try seeing if the following files are under /lib/modules/2.6.33.2/misc/ in your Puppy installation if only to eliminate one more possibility: vboxdrv.ko, vboxnetadp.ko, and vboxnetflt.ko.

[sc0ttman]

[shinobar]