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karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

current state of emulation?

ok i used to be able to get vmware compiled and running on arch64 but now after a year or so it doesn't work anymore, and virtualbox doesnt seem to work either does anyone have one running that can help me?  thanks

karsten

ganja_guru

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Registered: 2005-02-14

Posts: 464

Re: current state of emulation?

the non open source edition of virtualbox runs fine on x86_64. PKGBUILD is in AUR

Janax

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From: Iowa

Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 86

Re: current state of emulation?

Yep.  I'm running the virtualbox_bin package and everything's working well for me so far.  I posted a comment at the bottom of the package that shows the x86_64 compliant package build (works for both i686 and x86_64).  Just paste that into a PKGBUILD and 'makepkg' and go!

karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

Re: current state of emulation?

hm thats the one i've been trying, but when i start the virtual machine it gives an error that "the current user does not have write access to /dev/vboxdrv" or some thing like that.  any ideas? i'm in the vboxusers group and have rebooted and whatnot.  thanks a lot:)

karsten

Janax

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From: Iowa

Registered: 2007-05-21

Posts: 86

Re: current state of emulation?

# ls -l /dev/vbox*
crw-rw---- 1 root vboxusers 10, 63 2007-07-05 01:44 /dev/vboxdrv
# chgrp vboxusers /dev/vboxdrv           # only if necessary

Make sure that the group is set to 'vboxusers'.  During one of my trial installations it would show up as 'root:root' even though the udev.rules file was copied correctly.  I haven't been able to get it to behave that way since, so I figured it was some kind of fluke.  I know it's shown up properly for me ever since!

karsten

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 261

Re: current state of emulation?

ah yeah i think it was root.  now that i nuked my install i'll have to try again hehe