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#21 Post by nooby »

Thanks I take a look at it if all other means to get TCL going fails. And I need it also for things like Ubuntu and Mint and Ultimate and Arch linux and such that fail to boot in frugal install.


I made a bookmark to your site.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#22 Post by sc0ttman »

TheAsterisk! wrote:I also added notes for sc0ttman's puplet "Puplite." I tested version 4.0, but it's probably more or less the same for earlier versions of Puplite.
Puplite sometimes encounters trouble starting the vbox services at installation, so I added a note on how to restart the service, too.
Just to let you know, while using these packages in Puplite, I had trouble getting the 'all kernels' version to work, but the version made for 2.6.25.16 works every time :) Good stuff
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#23 Post by BHINTZ »

many thanks. It works just fine and I do not anticipate needing both working at the same time.

Does one of your versions work in fluppy? I tried the universal one and it would not start.

bob

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#24 Post by nooby »

Am I alone having this problem?
It says: Spawning session and then nothing happens. But it still works but I wonder what it does?

In ubuntu forums they say one should recompile the kernel
I am using lupu250 and that one does have some ubuntu in it so is that related?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#25 Post by TheAsterisk! »

BHINTZ wrote:Does one of your versions work in fluppy? I tried the universal one and it would not start.
It ought to work if you have the kernel source and devx SFS modules installed, but I've never tested it on Fluppy. If that would be a popular package, though, I could try making a package in a few days (I'll be a bit too busy until maybe Thursday, I'm afraid).
EDIT (24 Feb.) - Since version 4.0.4 is out, when I package up those I'll try to add one for Fluppy while I'm at it.
nooby wrote:Am I alone having this problem?
It says: Spawning session and then nothing happens. But it still works but I wonder what it does?
In ubuntu forums they say one should recompile the kernel
I am using lupu250 and that one does have some ubuntu in it so is that related?
Well, I'm not sure what the cause might be, but the kernel is probably fine. You might want to try recompiling the VBox drivers with the following command:

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
That should do it, but you'll need to install the kernel source and devx SFS modules first.
sc0ttman wrote:Just to let you know, while using these packages in Puplite, I had trouble getting the 'all kernels' version to work, but the version made for 2.6.25.16 works every time. :) Good stuff.
Hmm...
You (or WOOF- I'm not sure exactly how you built your puplet) didn't change the way that Puplite handles the pinstall.sh script(s), did you? That's how I get the all_kernels package to compile the drivers at installation, and it's also how I (try to) get the compiled packages to start up the VBox services right away.
If Puplite's PPM or equivalent just isn't running the install scripts, for whatever reason, then that would explain things neatly.
If there's a change I can make to those scripts to make Puplite + VBox installations work better, please let me know.

UPDATE 26 Feb.: I've made packages for VBox 4.0.4, and the simpler pinstall.sh scripts they're using are working for me in Puplite 4.0 and in 5.0 (both kernels). I've included them in the package chooser HTML page, too.
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Nice!

#26 Post by yosi666 »

Working nicely in Wary 5 after installing libSDL 1.2 :D

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#27 Post by sc0ttman »

is it possible to compile vbox without any GUI? if so, how small would it be?

EDIT: I read up a bit on this, and while it can be compiled with no GUI, apparently it needs to be complied on a system with X installed, and it still asks for QT libs, even when compiling with no GUI...

Well, that's all good, it can be compiled with no GUI, which is nice because I am thinking about making a gtkdialog frontend for vbox..

I have found myself using the QT menu less and less once a VM (guest OS) is setup, in favour of the command-line. While a gtkdialog GUI would be missing a lot of run-time features, I basically don't want much of a GUI once the guest OS has loaded..

Also, I'm guessing that a vbox 'headless' (or no GUI) setup, loaded from a nice and small GUI, might be slightly less resource-intensive when the guest OS is actually up and running.
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#28 Post by Darkgame »

ive wanted to use vbox on puppy, for a 'portable' gamimg usb drive.
How do u install from sfs?
Or can anyone make or upload the pet version?
I saw it once,4.0.0, but i deleted by pupsave by accident and the pet is now gone?!

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#29 Post by fenex2004 »

Darkgame,
What version Puppy are you using? The newest (Lupu 5.2) has the vbox sfs - check quickpet under sfs tab. When you first run it it will tell you that there is a new version (4.0.4) available and direct you to the website. then just unzip the tarball. that is how I installed it.
Only problem i'm having is that it is slow due to the memory requirements - i'm running it on a laptop with very little memory and slow CPU, so everything runs slow on it :)

Hope this helped!

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#30 Post by Darkgame »

Thanks! I will go check it out

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#31 Post by TheAsterisk! »

Darkgame wrote:ive wanted to use vbox on puppy, for a 'portable' gamimg usb drive.
How do u install from sfs?
Or can anyone make or upload the pet version?
I saw it once,4.0.0, but i deleted by pupsave by accident and the pet is now gone?!
With a frugal installaion (when Puppy has a savefile), you just place the SFS in the folder "/mnt/home/" and go to the boot manager (in the menu, "MENU --> System --> BootManager") and select which will load when Puppy starts up.

If you still want a PET, though, I can slap one together later and upload it. (All my packages are available as PETs, but I've removed versions 4.0.0 and 4.0.4 since uploading 4.0.4. I can always make an older version available again for limited downloads.)
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#32 Post by Darkgame »

thanks, but nevermind. Ive got it from quickpet and now im playing warcraft 3

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#33 Post by TheAsterisk! »

Darkgame wrote:thanks, but nevermind. Ive got it from quickpet and now im playing warcraft 3
Glad to hear it's worked out!

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#34 Post by TheAsterisk! »

Alright, everyone. I've made up some packages for 4.0.6. Audio issues with Lucid 525 are worse than ever, though- no sound options work at all. Still seems fine with everything else, though, and 4.0.4 and 3.2.8 can still be made to serve up working audio on 525.

I'll be uploading those later this morning.

(One change I could find: something called "balloon-ctrl" is now in VBox, and I have no idea what it is. It's also either very new or obscure, because web searches didn't help either. If anyone knows what the heck this is, I'm very curious to find out.)

I'll probably also eliminate most of the 4.0.4 packages, except for those Puppy versions which don't work or work albeit more poorly with 4.0.6. (525 with its audio issues comes to mind.)


Be back soon!

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UPDATE

#35 Post by TheAsterisk! »

Updated packages to version 4.0.6.

Slight organizational update was also carried out, and is still in progress for older packages.

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#36 Post by Brown Mouse »

TheAsterisk! wrote:Alright, everyone. I've made up some packages for 4.0.6. Audio issues with Lucid 525 are worse than ever, though- no sound options work at all. Still seems fine with everything else, though,
I just installed your new 4.0.6 as host to Lucid 520 and ran Lucid 525 as guest with perfect sound.Your getting there.Well done :D

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#37 Post by TheAsterisk! »

Brown Mouse wrote:I just installed your new 4.0.6 as host to Lucid 520 and ran Lucid 525 as guest with perfect sound.Your getting there.Well done :D
Oh, it very well may work as a guest. 525's audio issues (the ones I mentioned, anyway) were with 525 as a host.

Anyway, thanks!

gcmartin

FATDOG version

#38 Post by gcmartin »

TheAsterisk! wrote: ... Oh, it very well may work as a guest. 525's audio issues (the ones I mentioned, anyway) were with 525 as a host. ...
Is there a PET for FATDOG?
Thanks.

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Re: FATDOG version

#39 Post by TheAsterisk! »

gcmartin wrote:
TheAsterisk! wrote: ... Oh, it very well may work as a guest. 525's audio issues (the ones I mentioned, anyway) were with 525 as a host. ...
Is there a PET for FATDOG?
Thanks.
No, sorry. I don't have a 64-bit computer to run Fatdog on, and my computers don't have enough muscle to run a full-fledged emulator. (A big VM is pushy it pretty far for me, honestly.)

Having said that, the 32-bit installer runs as it is from Oracle's site, so if you load the devx and kernel source for Fatdog then run the 64-bit installer, you might be able to install it that way.
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#40 Post by KusaNoKaito »

I'm using Lucid Puppy 5.1.1 and when running /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup, all I get is this:

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WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/.
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: line 284: /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxhost/do_dkms: No such file or directory
 ...done.
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: line 302: /opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxhost/do_dkms: No such file or directory
 ...failed!
  (Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules ...failed!
  (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
I ideas?

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