[gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[john]

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Any one having issues with version 4 of VirtualBox.

Mouse integration does not work any more. I can no longer use mouse
within VirtualBox.

I have disabled/enabled mosue integration.



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John D Maunder
john@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk

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Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:23 PM, john <john@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> Any one having issues with version 4 of VirtualBox.
>
> Mouse integration does not work any more. I can no longer use mouse
> within VirtualBox.
>
> I have disabled/enabled mosue integration.
>
>
>
> --------------
> John D Maunder
> john@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk
>

Hi John,
   I'm having a few issues with it, but not specifically any mouse
problems. I run both Gentoo and Win7 VMs, and I run the Gentoo VMs on
both Gentoo and Win7 hosts. The mouse has been a little touchy within
the Gentoo VM on a Win7 host, at least the first day or two. However I
followed the guide I found and enabled the additions package in
rc-update and things got better. No mouse problems with any of the VMs
on my Gentoo host.

   My big problem is that a perfectly working Win7 VM under 3.?.? now
'pauses' at odd times. It's working fine, but I come back and hour
later and it's all grayed out. I unpause it and it is working again
for another hour. The same VM under the previous version didn't do
this ever.

- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 02:23 on Saturday 15 January 2011, john did 
opine thusly:

> Any one having issues with version 4 of VirtualBox.
> 
> Mouse integration does not work any more. I can no longer use mouse
> within VirtualBox.
> 
> I have disabled/enabled mosue integration.

Mouse integration works fine here. I didn't have to do anything when migrating 
from 3.

What definitely is broken is the Settings button above the list of virtual 
machines - it makes VB segfault. I must click the section headings on the 
right pane to make config changes to my guests



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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
> Mouse integration works fine here. I didn't have to do anything when migrating
> from 3.
>
> What definitely is broken is the Settings button above the list of virtual
> machines - it makes VB segfault. I must click the section headings on the
> right pane to make config changes to my guests
>

I'm not seeing that problem on my server. The machine is mostly stable.

- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[Yohan Pereira]

On Saturday 15 Jan 2011 1:13:41 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
> What definitely is broken is the Settings button above the list of virtual 
> machines - it makes VB segfault. 

yea i have this problem too. Using virtualbox-bin for the time being that 
seems to work fine.

> I must click the section headings on the 
> right pane to make config changes to my guests

oh i didnt try that


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- Yohan Pereira.

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 02:23 on Saturday 15 January 2011, john did 
opine thusly:

> Any one having issues with version 4 of VirtualBox.
> 
> Mouse integration does not work any more. I can no longer use mouse
> within VirtualBox.
> 
> I have disabled/enabled mosue integration.

make sure you did rebuild the virtual box modules after upgrading virtualbox.

They come as a pair at v-4.0.0 but you might have some odd masks that 
prevented it.

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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[David Relson]

With my AMD Phenom, v-4.0.0 doesn't work at all.  After clicking on the
icon (or running /usr/bin/VirtualBox - a link
to /opt/VirtualBox/VBox.sh), nothing happens -- specifically VBox's
window doesn't appear.

After reverting to v-3.2.12-r2, all is fine.

FWIW, I'm using virtualbox-bin.


On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:51:47 +0200
Alan McKinnon wrote:

> Apparently, though unproven, at 02:23 on Saturday 15 January 2011,
> john did opine thusly:
> 
> > Any one having issues with version 4 of VirtualBox.
> > 
> > Mouse integration does not work any more. I can no longer use mouse
> > within VirtualBox.
> > 
> > I have disabled/enabled mosue integration.
> 
> make sure you did rebuild the virtual box modules after upgrading
> virtualbox.
> 
> They come as a pair at v-4.0.0 but you might have some odd masks that 
> prevented it.
> 
> -- 
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 02:56 on Saturday 15 January 2011, Mark Knecht 
did opine thusly:

> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:23 PM, john <john@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> > Any one having issues with version 4 of VirtualBox.
> > 
> > Mouse integration does not work any more. I can no longer use mouse
> > within VirtualBox.
> > 
> > I have disabled/enabled mosue integration.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --------------
> > John D Maunder
> > john@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk
> 
> Hi John,
>    I'm having a few issues with it, but not specifically any mouse
> problems. I run both Gentoo and Win7 VMs, and I run the Gentoo VMs on
> both Gentoo and Win7 hosts. The mouse has been a little touchy within
> the Gentoo VM on a Win7 host, at least the first day or two. However I
> followed the guide I found and enabled the additions package in
> rc-update and things got better. No mouse problems with any of the VMs
> on my Gentoo host.
> 
>    My big problem is that a perfectly working Win7 VM under 3.?.? now
> 'pauses' at odd times. It's working fine, but I come back and hour
> later and it's all grayed out. I unpause it and it is working again
> for another hour. The same VM under the previous version didn't do
> this ever.
> 
> - Mark

Mark,

Sounds like this:

http://pi-ist-genau-3.de/?p=1071


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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

[gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[thelma]

I've emerged virtualbox but it doesn't appear in Application menu.
In addition I've noticed that virtualbox-bin was removed

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Thelma

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

You need to set the qt5 use flag in order to build the front-end UI for
it.

On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 08:40 -0700, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> I've emerged virtualbox but it doesn't appear in Application menu.

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday, 1 December 2020 15:52:09 GMT Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
> You need to set the qt5 use flag in order to build the front-end UI for
> it.
> 
> On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 08:40 -0700, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > I've emerged virtualbox but it doesn't appear in Application menu.

...and you need your user to be in the vboxusers group.

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Regards,
Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[Matt Connell (Gmail)]

On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 17:22 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> ...and you need your user to be in the vboxusers group.

Thanks, good point.

Also, apologies for top posting, previously.  Work emails giving me bad
habits.

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox

[thelma]

On 12/01/2020 08:52 AM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
> You need to set the qt5 use flag in order to build the front-end UI for
> it.
> 
> On Tue, 2020-12-01 at 08:40 -0700, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>> I've emerged virtualbox but it doesn't appear in Application menu.

Thanks folks, yes it worked.
It has been a while since I did any upgrade/installation :-/