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VBOX/2, problems starting ...

Started by cytan, 2008.02.12, 22:59:29

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cytan

Hi all,
   I finally managed to download VBOX/2 from Paul's site and have installed Fedora. I've successfully started up Fedora using:
   vboxbfe -m 256 -hda fedora8.vdi -boot c -natdev1 -share f:\share share

but I've been unable to startup:

   virtualbox.exe
or
  vboxsdl

I always get the error message:

Failed to initialize COM or to find the Virtual Box COM Server.

What else do I need to do?

Furthermore, I'm not getting networking to work quite right yet. I have a NAT server already running on my PC via Injoy Firewall. I can do an nslookup in Fedora, but anything else like telnet says that it cannot find a route. Does this mean that I cannot use NAT in VBOX but must use HIF?

Any advice appreciated. Thanks!

cytan

David McKenna

  I haven't used the BFE version lately... I have no trouble with VirtualBox.exe. One thing I do know... if you install with the BFE, you must set the hard drive to PIIX3 if you try to run that Virtual Machine with VirtualBox.exe.

  The other thing is VirtualBox.exe does not work well on SMP machines. There are a couple of test files for this problem on the Innotek ftp site....

  No problem with NAT here either (not using a firewall on the host though), but you seem to have a special setup that may present special routing requirements...

cytan

Quote from: David McKenna on 2008.02.13, 05:36:33
  I haven't used the BFE version lately... I have no trouble with VirtualBox.exe. One thing I do know... if you install with the BFE, you must set the hard drive to PIIX3 if you try to run that Virtual Machine with VirtualBox.exe.

  The other thing is VirtualBox.exe does not work well on SMP machines. There are a couple of test files for this problem on the Innotek ftp site....

  No problem with NAT here either (not using a firewall on the host though), but you seem to have a special setup that may present special routing requirements...

So there's no special SHELL variables which needs to be set up? I've set the path and libpath to point to where I installed vbox and that's no help.

My machine is SCSI and so I think there is no PIIX3 setup for it, I think. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm running a P4 and not SMP. So that shouldn't be a problem.

I'll try the Innotek build instead and see if that works.

cytan

David McKenna

 The only real requirements I know of is libc 0.6.3, and adding the VBoxDrv.sys to CONFIG.SYS. That's all I had to do to use VirtualBox.exe. I am also using a P4.

  Someone on the Innotek site had trouble until they lowered their cache size for JFS.... maybe you could try that?

cytan

Quote from: David McKenna on 2008.02.13, 06:02:10
The only real requirements I know of is libc 0.6.3, and adding the VBoxDrv.sys to CONFIG.SYS. That's all I had to do to use VirtualBox.exe. I am also using a P4.

  Someone on the Innotek site had trouble until they lowered their cache size for JFS.... maybe you could try that?

Aha, found the problem. I had to unset HOME and set the following environment variable:

set VBOX_USER_HOME=d:\

My guess is that VBOX needed to open something in the home directory.

I problem down, the next one is to figure out this NAT stuff and video resolution in FEDORA which is stuck at 800x600 right now.

cytan

P.S. Maybe I'd write up something for OS2voice about setting this thing up at some point.

cytan

Finally got Fedora 8 installed in vbox/2 (Paul's build). Everything is working! Networking via NAT, the linux additions to get 1024x768 resolution, shared folders. I even managed to install JAVA 6 in Fedora which was what I really needed.
This is great!

I've got enough info to write up an article for os2voice about my install experience. Hopefully I get it written up soon.

Thanks to Paul for his great work! Hopefully USB support, CDROM support will happen at some point (and seamless support if possible).

Just out of curiousity, for installing say WinXP in vbox, can only a full retail version be installed, yes no?

cytan

Saijin_Naib

Im sure you can install a hacked copy if that is what you are asking. VBOX doesnt check for legality as far as I know.

Ben

I know that networking is now working, but...

Is there any audio with Vbox/2?

Anyone?

Saijin_Naib