[Solved] Recommended 64 bit VirtualBox install?

thisllub · 2007-12-28 23:18:44

I have spent about 3 hours on this and tried everything I can find here and Google to no avail.

Despite the trouble I had getting my NVIDIA video cards working (only the most recent NVIDIA version would compile, the pacman options all failed) I am determined to get Arch to work properly.
I have been using other Linux distros since SUSE 6.1 and get paid for it so it is especially frustrating.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Last edited by thisllub (2007-12-31 02:23:28)

ganja_guru · 2007-12-29 01:15:36

Could you elaborate your problem a bit more please? I'm not really sure what exactly you need...

thisllub · 2007-12-29 04:29:54

Thanks

I cannot get a working vboxdrv.

I have tried every reference to VirtualBox I can find on these forums and none have worked.
I have also tried the download from the VirtualBox website.

That leads to an error

Oops: 0002 [1] PREEMPT SMP
myhost CR2: 0000196e000019d2

I am just looking for advice from someone who has it working on 64 bit Arch (if anyone has).

Arch seems to be an enigma to me at the moment. When installed, things seem to be very fast and stable but getting them to work at all is MUCH harder than any of the other 50 odd distros I have tried.

jacko · 2007-12-29 04:58:53

Despite the trouble I had getting my NVIDIA video cards working (only the most recent NVIDIA version would compile, the pacman options all failed) I am determined to get Arch to work properly

hmm, what nvidia card do u have? I have never had one iota of a problem installing nvidia drivers in linux.

this is really for another thread, just thought I'd ask.

thisllub · 2007-12-29 06:31:55

jacko wrote:

hmm, what nvidia card do u have? I have never had one iota of a problem installing nvidia drivers in linux.
this is really for another thread, just thought I'd ask.

2 GeForce 7300 hooked up to 3 monitors.

It is the first time I have ever had problems.

After the 3 pacman options failed (nvidia,nvidia-96xx,nvidia-7?xx (or whatever)) I found the new driver (169.07), compiled (but didn't install) a kernel, seemingly to get all of the necessary headers and then ran NVIDIAxxxx.sh.

I have had quite a struggle with Arch so far.

jacko · 2007-12-29 07:43:28

install yaourt from the AUR. Here http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd

d/l tarball and extract to folder. cd to folder and run

makepkg -i

that's supposed to build the binary and install it, if it doesn't install (which it has happened to me before) you need to do

pacman -A yaourt-i686:x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

or whatever the name of the package is that was created by the makepkg command. Does that make sense?

then run this command

yaourt -S nvidia-beta

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jacko · 2007-12-29 07:47:32

I have had quite a struggle with Arch so far.

me too at times. But there is some very smart people here. Just check the wiki and u will find all sorts of great articles on everything.

ganja_guru · 2007-12-29 09:22:21

What happens when you 'modprobe vboxdrv' after you install VirtualBox..? I myself have VirtualBox running beautifully on my x86_64 box.
Regarding nvidia drivers, using using beta drivers may not help when the drivers in extra don't. This is especially since it worked in other distro's. What you need to do is post /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and also your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (but probably start another thread)

Also, you still need to be more specific. When exactly do you get the error message you mentioned above? The community is here to help, but you need to be as verbose as you can (use pastebin.ca if needed)

Is this similar to your problem : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8865 ?

Please note that virtualbox-ose does not work on x86_64 yet, so you'll need to use the binary (which works fine and supposedly has more features)

Last edited by ganja_guru (2007-12-29 09:32:09)

thisllub · 2007-12-29 11:05:32

Ok.

Thanks for the help.

#1
I have The NVIDIA driver working fine. That was yesterday's problem and I solved it, although not necessarily by the 1st choice method. If it is any consolation Fedora updates used to break my Xconfig too. Eventually the Livna repository worked for me.

#2
Ganja Guru (I imagine you would be happy sitting on top of my hill) ,
modprobe vboxdrv followed by VirtualBox causes an instance of VirtualBox to appear int the process list but never display anything. Repeated invocations cause a string of VirtualBox processes.

How did you install VB? From a PKGBUILD or from virtualbox.org?

Thanks again for your help.

After more experimentation with Arch I will definitely be trialling it on a server even if I can't overcome my desktop issues.
I run 3 Linux machines at home. Fedora 7, Etch and Ubuntu.
I also look after a group of about 12 real and virtual servers running distros from RedHat 8 to Ubuntu 7.10.
The performance of Arch looks very encouraging so far.

ganja_guru · 2007-12-29 13:03:27

I install VirtualBox from virtualbox.org - http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5. … _amd64.run

Pierre · 2007-12-29 16:45:46

There are PKGBUILDs for virtualbox which work nicely on arch64, too: http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/packa … irtualbox/

Last edited by Pierre (2007-12-29 16:46:10)

thisllub · 2007-12-29 20:12:24

Pierre wrote:

There are PKGBUILDs for virtualbox which work nicely on arch64, too: http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/packa … irtualbox/

Thank you.
I tried those and now VirtualBox hangs when starting .

Now the message is;
VirtualBox [6936] exited with preempt_count 1

I suspect that I may have a kernel issue. There are a few similar reported issues.
e.g.
http://www.virtualbox.de/ticket/960

I will report back when I work it out.

As an aside, my daughter might be moving to Siegburg in the new year. Is it a nice area?

Pierre · 2007-12-29 22:34:16

Did you built vboxdrv and virtualbox using the PKGBUILDs mentioned above? If you allready had vboxdrv loaded, did you unload the old one and modporbe the new one?

PS: Well, I think Siegburg is quite nice; and at least its near Bonn or Cologne. :-)

thisllub · 2007-12-29 23:29:58

Pierre wrote:

Did you built vboxdrv and virtualbox using the PKGBUILDs mentioned above? If you allready had vboxdrv loaded, did you unload the old one and modporbe the new one?

Yes that is exactly what I did.
I am now looking at the options that the kernel is compiled with.

I also have a Debian low latency kernel install on this machine that I use for recording and VirtualBox causes that to hang.
It works beautifully with Fedora.

Pierre wrote:

PS: Well, I think Siegburg is quite nice; and at least its near Bonn or Cologne. :-)

Pleased to hear it. That was my reaction when she told me.

thisllub · 2007-12-31 02:09:44

Solved.

I recompiled the kernel and changed the settings from low latency to desktop.

Works fine now.

Arch Linux

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[Solved] Recommended 64 bit VirtualBox install?

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