Re: virt-manager (was Re: Virtual Box)

2019-08-06 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 7/8/19 12:44 am, The Wanderer wrote: it reports that "libvirtd is installed but not running". running sudo libvirtd got me past that problem -- Keith Bainbridge ke1th3...@gmail.com +61 (0)447 667 468

Re: virt-manager (was Re: Virtual Box)

2019-08-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-06, The Wanderer wrote: >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D765448 > > Interesting. How'd you find that? It didn't crop up in my searches based > on the error messages I was seeing. > I looked for "debian virt-manager without systemd" using the G search engine, and

Re: virt-manager (was Re: Virtual Box)

2019-08-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-08-06 at 11:29, Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-06, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I tried this out myself recently, but couldn't get it to work; it >> reports that "libvirtd is installed but not running". >> >> As far as I can tell, the problem boils down to the fact that I >> refuse to have libpa

Re: virt-manager (was Re: Virtual Box)

2019-08-06 Thread Curt
On 2019-08-06, The Wanderer wrote: > > I tried this out myself recently, but couldn't get it to work; it > reports that "libvirtd is installed but not running". > > As far as I can tell, the problem boils down to the fact that I refuse > to have libpam-systemd installed, which means that I can't i

virt-manager (was Re: Virtual Box)

2019-08-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-08-06 at 02:18, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 3/8/19 3:39 am, Etienne Mollier wrote: > >> Since you are coming from the VirtualBox world, I would suggest to >> check out the package "virt-manager" which provides a GUI allowing >> to drive your KVM virtual machines. You may find more detai

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-05 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 3/8/19 9:10 pm, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2019 03 Aug 02:25 -0500, Sven Hartge wrote: Nate Bargmann wrote: On 2019 02 Aug 12:11 -0500, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dp

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-05 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 3/8/19 3:39 am, Etienne Mollier wrote: Since you are coming from the VirtualBox world, I would suggest to check out the package "virt-manager" which provides a GUI allowing to drive your KVM virtual machines. You may find more details about this program on its homepage: https://virt-

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 aug 19, 12:06:57, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I've read that apt released in 2014 or so. Its man page in Stretch is > dated 2015. So, it could have been available first in Jessie, but have > no idea if the local .deb install with dependency checking was included > then, but probably was.

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 15:12:18 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 05 Aug 2019 at 12:06:57 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:50:07 -0400 Greg Wooledge > > wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:44:35AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 08:41:06 -040

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-05 Thread David Wright
On Mon 05 Aug 2019 at 12:06:57 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:50:07 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:44:35AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 08:41:06 -0400 Greg Wooledge > > > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:42:36PM

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 11:50:07 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:44:35AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 08:41:06 -0400 > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:42:36PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > To help installing the .d

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 08:44:35AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 08:41:06 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:42:36PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > To help installing the .deb file, install gdebi-core (commandline > > > version) from Buster's rep

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-05 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 08:41:06 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:42:36PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > To help installing the .deb file, install gdebi-core (commandline > > version) from Buster's repo. It will take care of dependencies > > which dpkg does not. > > Or sim

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:42:36PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > To help installing the .deb file, install gdebi-core (commandline > version) from Buster's repo. It will take care of dependencies > which dpkg does not. Or simply use "apt install ./whatever.deb". Don't forget the leading "./" or

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-03 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 02/08/2019 18:03, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Thanks to all for useful input. Thanks to a little brain fade I hadn't been able to find the Oracle repository, but all is now well. Peter HB

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 03 Aug 02:25 -0500, Sven Hartge wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > On 2019 02 Aug 12:11 -0500, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > >> Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to > >> install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed > >> because of de

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Nate Bargmann wrote: > On 2019 02 Aug 12:11 -0500, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to >> install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed >> because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the >> Bu

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 03 Aug 2019 03:22:24 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > Download the .deb directly from Oracle's web site.  This is the way I've > > always installed Virtualbox.  Never used the Debian repo versions > > ever.  Don't forget the Host Extensions package. > > > > To help in

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Aug 2, 2019, at 10:03 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to > install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed > because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the > Buster repositories.

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread deloptes
Patrick Bartek wrote: > Download the .deb directly from Oracle's web site.  This is the way I've > always installed Virtualbox.  Never used the Debian repo versions > ever.  Don't forget the Host Extensions package. > > To help installing the .deb file, install gdebi-core (commandline > version)

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread deloptes
Étienne Mollier wrote: > If you can afford a change of virtualization technology, then > you could try one of the free and open source alternatives made > available in Debian 10 perhaps.  Notably, one can mention Qemu, > Xen, and KVM. So I say my toy is broken and you say take that other toy ...

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 02/08/2019 22:42, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 18:03:51 +0100 > Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > >> Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to >> install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed >> because of dependency problems, including

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 02/08/2019 21:44, Erwan David wrote: > > On 8/2/19 7:03 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to >> install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed >> because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not i

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 02/08/2019 18:39, Étienne Mollier wrote: > phb, on 2019-08-02: >> Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to >> install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed >> because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the >> Buster repositor

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 18:03:51 +0100 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to > install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed > because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the > Buster repositories. >

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Erwan David
On 8/2/19 7:03 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the Buster repositories. Anyone have any though

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Étienne Mollier
phb, on 2019-08-02: > Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to > install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed > because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the > Buster repositories. > > Anyone have any thoughts? Good day Peter

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 02 Aug 12:11 -0500, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to > install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed > because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the > Buster repositories. > > Any

Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the Buster repositories. Anyone have any thoughts? Peter HB

Re: Virtual box

2015-10-23 Thread Jari Fredriksson
install virtual box? Amy info you have for me would be great thanks. You won't NEED to install virtualbox, but there's no reason you can't. Virtualbox will allow you to create a "PC on a PC", but won't address the issue of running things remotely. VirtualBox c

Re: Virtual box

2015-10-22 Thread Catalin Soare
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Mitch Nuss wrote: > I am wanting to install Debian into a pic tower I have and want to use it > as a headless server and use a tight VNC so I can access it anywhere. Do > you have any advice for me and will I need to install virtual box? Amy info >

Re: Virtual box

2015-10-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 09:33:56PM -0500, Mitch Nuss wrote: > I am wanting to install Debian into a pic tower I have and want to use it as > a headless server and use a tight VNC so I can access it anywhere. Do you > have any advice for me and will I need to install virtual box? Amy

Virtual box

2015-10-19 Thread Mitch Nuss
I am wanting to install Debian into a pic tower I have and want to use it as a headless server and use a tight VNC so I can access it anywhere. Do you have any advice for me and will I need to install virtual box? Amy info you have for me would be great thanks. Sent from my iPhone

KDM cannot start (was: Installing squeeze in Virtual box)

2012-06-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:51:35 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Patrick Bartek > wrote: > > >> >> > Any blog or tutorial for installing squeeze in virtual box of >> > windows? >> How to make virtual partitions for root and swa

Re: Installing squeeze in Virtual box

2012-06-17 Thread Istimsak
Vbox will also walk you the steps to create both partitions. L V Gandhi wrote: >On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> >> >> > Any blog or tutorial for installing squeeze in virtual box of windows? >> How to make virtual partitions

Re: Installing squeeze in Virtual box

2012-06-17 Thread L V Gandhi
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Any blog or tutorial for installing squeeze in virtual box of windows? > How to make virtual partitions for root and swap in virtual box? > > > Install Squeeze like any other OS. Start with the User Manual.

Re: Installing squeeze in Virtual box

2012-06-17 Thread Patrick Bartek
> Any blog or tutorial for installing squeeze in virtual box of windows?  How > to make virtual partitions for root and swap in virtual box? Install Squeeze like any other OS.  Start with the User Manual.  Should answer all your questions.  It did for me.   https://www.virtualbox.or

Re: Installing squeeze in Virtual box

2012-06-17 Thread Paul Saunders
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:48:49 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:01:14 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > > > Any blog or tutorial for installing squeeze in virtual box of > > windows? > > For something special? I mean, it works as usual :-? > > > H

Re: Installing squeeze in Virtual box

2012-06-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:01:14 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > Any blog or tutorial for installing squeeze in virtual box of windows? For something special? I mean, it works as usual :-? > How to make virtual partitions for root and swap in virtual box? What do you mean by "virtual parti

Re: Installing squeeze in Virtual box

2012-06-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 06:01 +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: > Any blog or tutorial for installing squeeze in virtual box of windows? > How to make virtual partitions for root and swap in virtual box? http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/gallery/installing-debian-on-virtualbox/31_Debian_Install_

Installing squeeze in Virtual box

2012-06-16 Thread L V Gandhi
Any blog or tutorial for installing squeeze in virtual box of windows? How to make virtual partitions for root and swap in virtual box? -- L V Gandhi

Re: virtual box permissions ?

2010-06-25 Thread Aniruddha
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 2:19 AM, wrote: > What's the correct way to set-up virtual box so that a user can use it ? > > I found lot's of issues surrounding the use vboxusers group, but under > sid it seems to be very broken. > > The udev file which is supposed to se

virtual box permissions ?

2010-05-29 Thread briand
What's the correct way to set-up virtual box so that a user can use it ? I found lot's of issues surrounding the use vboxusers group, but under sid it seems to be very broken. The udev file which is supposed to set things up does not seem to exist in the package and the group is does

Re: Debian in Debian via Virtual box

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:08:08 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > How have people managed to get debian in virtual box to display with a > resolution higher than 800x600. By installing "Guest Additions". > I've tried reinstalling with a higher > video memory settin

Re: Debian in Debian via Virtual box

2010-04-12 Thread James Allsopp
Just running 64-bit version of squeeze on a nvidia GT9500 graphics card. I'll try your shared directory trick, thanks! On 12 April 2010 11:15, Monsieur Louk wrote: > > > 2010/4/12 James Allsopp > >> Hi, >> >> How have people managed to get debian in virtual

Re: Debian in Debian via Virtual box

2010-04-12 Thread Monsieur Louk
2010/4/12 James Allsopp > Hi, > How have people managed to get debian in virtual box to display with a > resolution higher than 800x600. I've tried reinstalling with a higher video > memory setting and installing the guest additions. Was finding it difficult > to find

Debian in Debian via Virtual box

2010-04-12 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, How have people managed to get debian in virtual box to display with a resolution higher than 800x600. I've tried reinstalling with a higher video memory setting and installing the guest additions. Was finding it difficult to find out if the additions actually installed correctly,

Re: Virtual box - guest with transparent background

2009-02-26 Thread Rodrigo Hashimoto
No I haven't, but it's fixed for now. But I still trying to figure out what happened and I'll post here. Bypass ?? I just removed some recent packages, probably the one caused this issue was cairo-dock, I loved this tools, this is simply amazing but I don't know why it affected my virtual machine

Re: Virtual box - guest with transparent background

2009-02-26 Thread Daryl Styrk
Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote: Hello, Anyone ? Any other idea ? Have you went and installed the guest add-on's? Even for my Linux hosting Linux, the add-on's were needed to display the VM's correctly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Virtual box - guest with transparent background

2009-02-26 Thread Rodrigo Hashimoto
Hello, Anyone ? Any other idea ? Thanks. On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 21:41 -0300, Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote: > Hi there, > > I have two guest hosts, one Debian and one Windows, and both of them > have the background transparent, I have no idea what happened. > > It's like the transparent terminal

Re: Virtual box - guest with transparent background]

2009-02-22 Thread Daryl Styrk
Rodrigo Hashimoto wrote: Hi there, I have two guest hosts, one Debian and one Windows, and both of them have the background transparent, I have no idea what happened. It's like the transparent terminal with compiz-fusion. If anyone has any idea please post it. Thanks a lot. Bye. Transpare

Virtual box - guest with transparent background

2009-02-22 Thread Rodrigo Hashimoto
Hi there, I have two guest hosts, one Debian and one Windows, and both of them have the background transparent, I have no idea what happened. It's like the transparent terminal with compiz-fusion. If anyone has any idea please post it. Thanks a lot. Bye.

Re: Virtual Box (Sun) + USB

2008-11-04 Thread elijah rutschman
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Roberto Chacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Tengo instalado el VirtualBox que se de Sun, todo funciona sin problemas, > solo que no he podido activar el soporte USB > > He buscado y solo aparaece para VitualBox OSE. > > Alguna idea de como activarlo. Hola, Do

Re: Virtual Box (Sun) + USB

2008-11-04 Thread Alex Samad
I am guessing you are asking why usb doesn't work on the ose version of virtualbox. THat is because usb support is not in the ose version. goto the virtualbox site, there is infomration how to add their repo to you machine and download the free non-ose version. It works well Alex On Tue, Nov 04,

Virtual Box (Sun) + USB

2008-11-04 Thread Roberto Chacon
Hola Tengo instalado el VirtualBox que se de Sun, todo funciona sin problemas, solo que no he podido activar el soporte USB He buscado y solo aparaece para VitualBox OSE. Alguna idea de como activarlo.

Re: virtual box version mismatch

2008-10-24 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:01:44 -0500 Dennis Wicks wrote: > > > You need to add for future reference between m-a and modprobe > > rmmod vboxdrv > > else you still have the same error since apparently modprobe > silently does not replace already loaded modules. Probably even better: aptit

Re: virtual box version mismatch

2008-10-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote the following on 10/23/2008 11:21 AM: Op Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:34:52 +0200 Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: Exactly what it says. 'The version of the VirtualBox kernel modules and the version of VirtualBox application are not matching.' You may have upgraded one (or was upgraded dur

Re: virtual box version mismatch

2008-10-23 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:34:52 +0200 Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:22:26 -0500 Dennis Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I have tried this on two different machines w/different kernels but > > both lenny and after I do the "modprobe vboxdrv" as demanded by vbox > > I get the

Re: virtual box version mismatch

2008-10-23 Thread Slim Joe
2008/10/22, Dennis Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings; > > I have tried this on two different machines w/different kernels but > both lenny and after I do the "modprobe vboxdrv" as demanded by vbox > I get the message following and I have just installed latest vbox stuff. > > The version

Re: virtual box version mismatch

2008-10-23 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:22:26 -0500 Dennis Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings; > > I have tried this on two different machines w/different kernels but > both lenny and after I do the "modprobe vboxdrv" as demanded by vbox > I get the message following and I have just installed latest vbo

virtual box version mismatch

2008-10-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have tried this on two different machines w/different kernels but both lenny and after I do the "modprobe vboxdrv" as demanded by vbox I get the message following and I have just installed latest vbox stuff. The version of the VirtualBox kernel modules and the version