Re: Virtualbox 4.3.14 For Mac
Sofie Kovalcheck
Note: The package architecture has to match the Linux kernel architecture, that is, if you are running a 64-bit kernel, install the appropriate AMD64 package (it does not matter if you have an Intel or an AMD CPU). Mixed installations (e.g. Debian/Lenny ships an AMD64 kernel with 32-bit packages) are not supported. To install VirtualBox anyway you need to setup a 64-bit chroot environment.
We provide a yum/dnf-style repository for Oracle Linux/Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE. All .rpm packages are signed. The Oracle public key for rpm can be downloaded here. You can add this key (not normally necessary, see below!) with
Note that importing the key is not necessary for yum users (Oracle Linux/Fedora/RHEL/CentOS) when using one of the virtualbox.repo files from below as yum downloads and imports the public key automatically! Zypper users should run
Problem: While in Ubuntu's desktop and other Ubuntu initiated programs, the window is reduced to about 3x4 inches showing in the middle of the rest of my regular Virtual Box window. I am seeing only the upper right hand of the screen output of what I would normally see.
I have come to realize that the solution described above is just a fallback, in case installing the Guest Additions failed for some reason. I have finally managed to successfully install them, and can now choose from a bigger range of resolutions in the display settings. Here is how I did it, after having tried all of the above.
One thing I had already tried earlier wassudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-x11This is not enough in itself, but might be a necessary prerequisite for the following steps (of which some might not be necessary...).
Make sure you have installed the latest version of Virtual Box(*). Be careful that if you ask Virtual Box to update to the latest version it might very likely declare being updated even if a newer version exists!
It might be a good idea to start from a clean distribution, creating a new virtual machine, install there Ubuntu (I allowed downloading updated packages from the network during installation), and cloning it before proceeding, so that if you have troubles you can avoid restarting from the very beginning.
Install build-essential and linux-headers-generic packages. Apparently, it's also reccomended to install dkms, as "Running DKMS in the guest OS will keep Guest Additions installed after a guest kernel update".
I remained stuck for several days in low screen resolution in a Ubuntu 14.04 guest running on VirtualBox 4.1 on Debian Wheezy. None of the most commonly suggested solutions (e.g. installing virtualbox-guest-dkms, installing guest additions) helped. Installing VirtualBox from the official downloads page worked!
With new version you need to use VMSVGA driver, unfortunately NixOS needs a fix to work with it, and here it is: nixos/virtualbox-guest: support VMSVGA graphics adapter by bachp Pull Request #86473 NixOS/nixpkgs GitHub but it is hanging there, I guess it needs attention from someone who can merge it.
The second one is creating a service that would run VBoxClient --vmsvga this will enable screen resizing. Note though that the patch that is waiting (nixos/virtualbox-guest: support VMSVGA graphics adapter by bachp Pull Request #86473 NixOS/nixpkgs GitHub) is using xrandr to change screen size, once it is merged those two might conflict with each other and you should remove this from your config.
I like this method, because it seems to work better on my machine, it also resizes the login screen. It looks like it needs to run as root though (maybe there is a way to make it run as unprivileged user). From what I read other OSes also run this as a service so perhaps this is correct approach.
I was able to make this work by making vboxclient systemd service to run in user namespace and depending (via WantedBy) on graphical-session.target. Here is the configuration which worked for me (with also a service for clipboard sharing):
No information at all on the internet how to boot Voss in virtualbox? I am almost sure that I found a topic about this on a site, can't remember which one though. You can check this source about .vmdk, the steps are almost the same, it can help you to boot the Voss. I didn't try it before, but according to people from the commentary section it worked perfectly, so it can work for you as well. The process is described in details, so you should have no problems with it, everything is very clear.
Unfortunately, my attempts to boot Voss in Virtualbox fails. This is with VOSS 8.2 configured with 64 bit Linux as OS and 2048 Mb RAM. Same result with converting image from qcow2 to vmdk and importing qcow2 directly to Virtualbox.
For other reasons I have to upgrade to a newer firmware. So my question is: can I install the latest virtualbox version 5.2 on the latest ReadyNas version 6.9.0 or are there some dependencies concerns or alike?
normally, you'd want to have a look at virt-v2v, but afaik it doesn't support virtualbox. So instead, why not just image the VM into a similar sized v-disk attached to a kvm based VM? dd over netcat is the most basic choice, but clonezilla seems like a nice solution as well
While common, widely used & supported USB devices such as mouse and keyboard HIDs connected to the host machine have been working well within the VBox guest (otherwise it would be plenty useless ), more "niche" USB devices such as FTDI, ST-Link or Keil debuggers for STM32, were extremely unreliable or didn't work at all, and our whole team back then couldn't resolve the issues and we gave up on that.
Now, I don't know whether there's anything inherent in the whole setup that makes this problem eternal, or it was just the state of development of VBox and/or the involved operating systems and drivers of back then.
I actually am thinking about using Linux as a host in my new laptop (that is to be carried around only in special situations, not regularly), and putting Windows in a VM for certain use cases. But Linux-on-Linux is also an imaginable scenario. More on that below.
Has this improved? Is STM32 development from within a VM, including debugging the hardware connected to the host computer (ST-link with reliable instruction stepping, variable reads, as well as virtual com port text), feasible now?
I could have the VirtualMachine, with all the work-related stuff installed, on an external drive, and carry that between work-from-home vs. work-in-office days, plug it in, and just run the VM and everything is fine. While, when at home not working, the rest of the laptop is untouched by work stuff, and vice versa.
If you search the net for search terms like "st-link virtualbox", you will find a lot of similar questions, but also messages that it works without problems or hints that you have to share USB ports (by default = dsbl) or activate the USB EHCI controller in the VM, etc- All in all, it doesn't seem to be a problem with the ST-Link or its drivers, but with Virtualbox and its settings.
However, I have not yet tested this myself in the- Virtualbox, because I can easily take a project that works with relative paths as an archive and debug it on another computer, so that a VM does not bring any significant advantage.
Just for short, you have to create a new Virtualbox, selecting fedora Linux and as a boot CD you can use the iso you downloaded.
Then start from Iso. Now you have to install it to your created virtualbox.
At that screen you click the button on the lower right, then reboot to launch the installed VM. (do that before removing the install media). Once the VM starts it will do the initial setup where a user is created.
I run Manjaro KDE on my laptop and I am running VirtualBox on this machine. I created a virtual machine and I gave it half my ram (4GB out of 8) and half my CPU cores (4GB out of 8) and I installed Manjaro i3 in the VM.
The problem I have is that part of the content of the windows in i3 on the VM does not display unless I restart i3 (mod+shift+R). For instance, if I open a terminal window, the window does appear but the content of the window is not displayed. If I use the keyboard shortcut to restart i3, I can then see the content of the terminal window. If I start typing something in the terminal window, nothing new is displayed on the screen but then if I restart i3 again, what I typed previously in the terminal is now correctly displayed.
I am not sure whether this issue is i3 or virtualbox related but I never encountered any similar issues with i3 and I am new to virtualbox so my guess is that I have a problem with virtualbox. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am trying to install UiPath on my MacBook and I read that I can use virtualbox to do it. I am very new to this so could someone help either by assisting me step by step or providing helpful resources for me i.e tutorial videos on how to install uipath using virtualbox for MacBook, I would really appreciate it.
the first time you installed Flywheel, you already had VirtualBox installed, so it did not need to perform that install. Then after Virtualbox was removed, Flywheel felt the pain, and attempted to re-install it.
Flywheel runs the websites inside a virtual Linux computer, this provides isolation and a running environment that is as close to the server environment as is possible to get. This is the main feature of flywheel, which uses docker, and virtualbox is the tool that docker uses to provide it.
I know that virtualbox looks to be a bit resource hungry, but looking at my imac, it is actually using a grand total of 26.5Mb of memory while idle, and 3.5% of one of my many cpus. This is acceptable.
In the fullness of time, there is a version of docker that does not require the entirety of virtualbox, and you may look forward this, but in the meantime, your options are Flywheel with virtualbox or perhaps some other tool like MAMP or XAMPPS. Personally I am not looking forward to it, because I use an old Mac Pro at home and that cant run the docker without virtualbox.
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