Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

fyujj · Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 103

Thanks, tim! I'm not in Puppy now but I'll check it.

Edit - oh, my...there's an SDL .pet attached to the first post (facepalm dramatising).

MatthewBrian · Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 24

I have mounted the devx and kernel source, and VirtualBox has successfully installed. But when I want to run a virtual OS (Win XP in this case), an error comes:

gray · Posted: Tue 13 Oct 2009, 06:14 Post subject: Vbox

The file in this pet is actually /etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv
It is started by the rc.local script in /etc/rc.d
make sure the rc.local script has the line
/etc/rc.d/rc.vboxdrv start

to activate the virtualbox driver at boot up.

MatthewBrian · Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 24

Thanks.

But, when I start the command, it gives me an error.

Lobster · Posted: Mon 19 Oct 2009, 06:53 Post subject:

I got it working Cool

and I have a 32bit and 64bit area
when I mount the recommended ISO file
m m m Embarassed

now what?
Ideally I would like to boot another Puppy from a virtual box
How? (question as well as greeting) Smile

VBoxUser · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

Hi Gray,

I find your comment very useful:

MatthewBrian · Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 24

VBoxUser · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

After some struggling with xorg server at startup i finally managed to install the guest additions.
I had to add also a "vboxadd" user to my system.

Right now i have another problem: the resizing feature does not work properly... It looks that the guest main window is resizing, the screen flickers a couple of times, but in the end all i see is the same size of the guest window.
Have u had this issue?

I am running a Puppy 4.3 on a vista home machine.
kernel 2.6.30.5

thanks

VBoxUser · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

Figured out the problem with resizing: the guest window can be resized but u need to restart the XServer all the time, for each resize....

Is there a way to make resizing in a seamless way? I know Guest additions on ubuntu support this.

Thanks

chris · Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Australia

Thanks Gray for the VirtualBox pet. A godsend after I failed to install VBox 3.0.10 manually. Embarassed

I noticed that after installing the Vbox pet and rebooting, my rc.local file was overwritten by Vbox without my original being backed up first during installation. Not sure if this is "normal" practice and I didn't lose much I couldn't replace but it might be worth adding a note to your opening post about this behaviour in case someone has a more extensive rc.local file.

Now I've got a nice new virtual puppy that I can use for code tweaking without destroying my main pup and without having to reboot into another installation. Very Happy

Perhaps I could put another virtual pup inside this virtual pup and use that for testing my tweaked code. Cool

I wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes Question

chris · Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Australia

I installed guest additions from the iso. Seemed to go okay but didn't get the mouse integration when I rebooted. Further checking showed that starting of VBoxClient in .xinitrc failed because there is a test inserted the installer that reads:

if 'readline /usr/X11R7/bin/X' == 'Xorg' .

This is a check for a symbolic link. I had no such link in my puppy 4.3.1 installation. Rather is should be /usr/bin/X. Fixed this up, rebooted and now I'm sending this message from puppy 4.3.1 inside puppy 4.3.1 with mouse integration so the virtualpup looks just like another window. Awesome. Cool

gray · Posted: Thu 05 Nov 2009, 07:50 Post subject: Virtualbox 3.0.10

Updated to Virtualbox 3.0.10 - see main post.

lenistamx · Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 2

¡Hi eveyone!
i'm post the correct link's for Vbox

bye

http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP/VBox3.0.10GuestAdditionsIso.tgz
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP/VBox3.0.10GuestAdditionsIso_md5sum.txt
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP/virtualbox-3.0.10-k2.6.30.5.pet
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP/virtualbox-3.0.10-k2.6.30.5_md5sum.txt
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP/virtualbox_guest_additions-3.0.10_k2.6.30.5.pet
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/NOP/virtualbox_guest_additions-3.0.10_k2.6.30.5_md5sum.txt

gray · Posted: Sun 29 Nov 2009, 03:12 Post subject: Vbox 3.0.12

Updated to Vbox 3.0.12 - see main post

JohnSnyder · Joined: 28 Nov 2009 Posts: 2

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate on my computer. I've installed VirtualBox 3.0.12, and I've now installed Puppy Linux 4.3.1 inside of VirtualBox. Using the VirtualBoxAdditions pet mentioned at the start of this thread, I've installed the Guest Additions.

However, as things stand, I've only gotten the screen portion to work. I am able to resize the screen (and then restart the X-server) in order to get the screen size I desire. However, the mouse integration isn't working. I still have to press the right control key in order to get the mouse out to my host operating system. As a rank beginner in Linux, I don't even know where to start looking for a problem. Any suggestions?

[Later...I compared the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file in someone else's installation with the same file in mine. Turns out my mouse driver was "mouse" and not "vboxmouse" Changing the driver to "vboxmouse" fixed the problem.]

Also, how do I gain access to my host computer's file system? I've listed a shared folder in the VirtualBox configuration, but I don't know how to access it in Puppy Linux. I think I need to "mount" it. Once again, I'd really appreciate any help offered.

[Later...Once again, I found the answer in this forum (http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45028).

To share files between host and guest:
1. You can either create a new folder on the host to share or you can use an existing folder.
2. Right-Click the folder icon in the tray at the bottom right corner of VirtualBox, Click the Add New Shared Folder icon and navigate to a folder to share on the host machine; VirtualBox will provide a "sharename" to refer to that folder (or you can make your own sharename, for instance, Puppy).
2. Then create a folder in puppy (for instance, /mnt/Puppy) to mount the host file on.
3. Use this command in a terminal to mount the host folder in Puppy: "mount -t vboxsf sharename mountingpoint" (for instance, mount -t vboxsf Puppy /mnt/Puppy)]

Thanks.