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scrawler

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Registered: 2005-06-07

Posts: 312

where the heck is virtualbox?

#pacman -Ss virtualbox

...

nada.

I'm on arch64. Community is enabled.  What repo is it in? What's the package called?
In the meantime I just installed qemu.  Does anybody prefer qemu to virtualbox?

WiLLiE

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-02-27

Posts: 133

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

 pacman -Ss virtualbox
community/virtualbox-additions 1.5.6-1
    Guest additions for VirtualBox
community/virtualbox-modules 1.5.6-1
    Kernel modules for VirtualBox (vboxdrv)
community/virtualbox-ose 1.5.6-1
    Powerful x86 virtualization for enterprise as well as home use (Open Source Edition)
community/virtualbox-ose-additions 1.5.6-1
    Guest Additions for VirtualBox (Open Source Edition)
community/virtualbox-ose-additions-modules 1.5.6-1
    Kernel modules for VirtualBox Guest Additions
community/virtualbox-ose-xorg-drivers 1.5.6-1
    Xorg drivers for VirtualBox Guest Additions

You need to enable Community in /etc/pacman.conf.

edit: oh, i missed the last part of your post. sorry.
I guess yours differs then because you're using 64bit.

Last edited by WiLLiE (2008-05-07 00:30:36)

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

It's in AUR.

...and I prefers VirtualBox over qemu.

EDIT: Grr... WiLLiE beat me to it.

Oh well, if you want the binary version, check out my link.

Last edited by zodmaner (2008-05-07 00:30:10)

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

virtualbox doesn't build/work on x86_64. That's why it's not in the repo.

dschauer

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Registered: 2008-02-28

Posts: 95

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

$ uname -mp
x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz
$ file $(which file)
/usr/bin/file: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.16, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

I'm running arch64.

$ pacman -Ss virtualbox
archlinuxfr/virtualbox_bin 1.5.6-3
    Powerful x86 virtualization - binary version (non GPL - free for personal
    use and evaluation)

There is a binary available for x86_64. I use it and it works quite well. You just can't distribute it.

You have to add the archlinux france repository to /etc/pacman.conf

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,685

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

I prefer Virtualbox to qemu [which I use just to test livecds] getting a virtual machine running is very easy to do... you find more features in personal use version

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Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,121

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

I'm trying to compile virtualbox-ose-additions-modules with 2.6.25 and it fails: pastebin

Any advice?

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azleifel

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From: St Evenage, UK

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 475

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

VirtualBox 1.6.0 could be the solution.  See http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog, last bullet point of the verion 1.6.0 fixes/additons.

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,121

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

Yeah I read about 1.6 just after my post. I'm going to try it out but as I don't have time to rebuild virtualbox in the next 2-3 days I might wait for the package in community to be updated. Go Romashka, go

edit:
Ok, I had to give it a go
The new version needs gcc34 to compile.

virtualbox-ose-additions compiles fine.
virtualbox-ose-additions-modules fails with this error.
virtualbox-ose fails with this error.

Used PKGBUILDs

Any ideas?

Last edited by Sigi (2008-05-08 03:54:23)

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dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

Hrm, you might like to change the title of your first post to reflect your new issues, this way you'll get more clicks from users with the same problem and therefore contextualized help related to said new issues.

-dav7

Last edited by dav7 (2008-05-08 18:31:44)

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Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,121

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

Well, good idea but it's not me who started the thread. I should probably start a new one...

edit: new thread

Last edited by Sigi (2008-05-08 18:56:16)

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thisllub

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From: Northern NSW Australia

Registered: 2007-12-28

Posts: 225

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

VBox ose has no USB support.

One of my main uses for it is to run an XP VM to print to a stupid Windows only laser printer.
My kids use IRiver (windows) software to manage their MP3 players.

Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,121

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

VBox ose has no USB support.

One of my main uses for it is to run an XP VM to print to a stupid Windows only laser printer.
My kids use IRiver (windows) software to manage their MP3 players.

So, do you use virtualbox-bin or vmware? I started to use virtualbox-bin 1.6 today. So far so good.
I'd still like to be able to compile virtualbox-ose...

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The Avatar of Time

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Registered: 2008-01-11

Posts: 226

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

Hello all,

I am having a terrible time here with Virtualbox. I am running Arch64. I have the

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64

enabled. And when using 'pacman -S virtualbox' I install 'virtualbox_bin-1.6.0-1'. Now this is all fine and wonderful except that I can not launch Virtualbox. If I type 'virtualbox' in terminal I get a command not found. If I use a 'whereis virtualbox' I get 'virtualbox:'.

So what is the deal here? Why does virtualbox not work and seem unfindable? I have the 'vboxdrv' module loaded.

rson451

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From: Annapolis, MD USA

Registered: 2007-04-15

Posts: 1,233

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Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

chances are you must "source /etc/profile" or log out and log back in before the virtualbox binaries will be in your path.

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The Avatar of Time

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Registered: 2008-01-11

Posts: 226

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

I have logged out as well as restarted. What command should launch virtualbox? virtualbox, virtualbox_bin, and vbox do not work. Also, whereis will not work on those either.

Is there some installation step that I am missing? I just don't get it.

shazeal

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2007-06-05

Posts: 339

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

VirtualBox not virtualbox unless that package does some renaming... try pacman -Ql virtualbox_bin if that still dont work.

The Avatar of Time

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Registered: 2008-01-11

Posts: 226

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

Thank you. VirtualBox shows up in 'whereis' and launches. So I am happy now. I apparently missed something though. If 'pacman -S virtualbox' will install it, how does one know to use VirtualBox the find and launch it?

Asgaroth

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From: Hesse, Germany

Registered: 2008-03-26

Posts: 58

Re: where the heck is virtualbox?

I hope I understood your last sentence, but it think it was answered in the previous post(assuming that you want to know how to determine the name(s) of the executable(s) of a package like VirtualBox and not virtualbox in this case):

pacman -Ql pkgname

That way, you see all files belonging to a package. It should be fairly easy to spot the executable in most cases. You could however list only executable files by doing something like this:

for i in `pacman -Ql virtualbox_bin`; do if [ -x $i -a ! -d $i ]; then echo $i; fi; done