Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

stevenbinion · Posted: Fri 05 Sep 2008, 17:06 Post subject:

Users really should be able to delete their own posts in case of duplicate posting, Then messages like this one could be avoided.

JB4x4 · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 256

@stevenbinion

I use a similar setup (Pup 3.02 - SDL - QT3) and I downloaded the VirtualBox 2.0 binary from the website. I installed it and had no problems.

JB

stevenbinion · Posted: Sat 06 Sep 2008, 09:16 Post subject:

and the missing dependencies I posted above?
VirtualBox 2 won't even run now.

JB4x4 · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 256

I do not have any of the QT 4 dependencies that you listed. Here is the file I installed from:

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.0.0/VirtualBox-2.0.0-36011-Linux_x86.run

stevenbinion · Posted: Sat 06 Sep 2008, 21:51 Post subject:

Wolf Pup · Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 637

VirtualBox updated to 2.0.2

stevenbinion · Posted: Mon 22 Sep 2008, 08:03 Post subject:

Thanks for the update Wolf_Pup. Smile

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1231 Location: Ukraine

Dear Wolf pup,

This version of the user GUI (2.02) - written in QT4 - is ugly as sin. That is because the GUI is linked to static libs in the Virtual Box directory with a horrendously primitive style. In the interest of prettification, one solution proposed by somebody on the Arch Linux forum was to link the gui to original qt4 libs where a styles plugin exists (for instance, libgtkstyle.so, to match the current GTK theme):

Wolf Pup · Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 637

Dunno if VirtualBox 1x is going to be phased out soo...

Added Virtualbox 1.6.6 to main post.

tazoc · Posted: Tue 14 Oct 2008, 16:31 Post subject: Thank you for packaging VirtualBox

Wolf Pup,
Thank you for this package and the updates. I'm running v2.02 and it's handled every OS I've tried pretty well. Handy for screenshots of booting up and video content in my puplet.
Well done!
TazOC

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1231 Location: Ukraine

Dear Wolf Pup,

Thanks for the update. Everything works on my 3.01. I did the link trick with my own qtcore and qtgui libs (4.4.4), deleting the ones in the pet after testing, and my interface is now in my own gtk style and pretty. Moreover, I saved about 11 MB in disk space by doing this. I don't recommend this method unless you have a recent qt4 installed.

With kind regards,
vovchik

notbanksy · Joined: 24 Oct 2008 Posts: 1

Hi everyone
I'm a noob at puppy and linux, so please bear with me. I've downloaded the virtualbox 2.0.2 pup file from the repo, and installed it, but I also get a list of missing dependencies. I'm using puppy 4 installed on my hdd.
I would like to get a virtual machine up and running so that I can run xp in my puppy installlation.

I have also tried installing vmware workstation, but the missing header files are making it stall. I can't seem to find any information about how to install the missing header files anywhere.

If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks

freamon · Joined: 12 Aug 2008 Posts: 19

Many thanks for your work on this Wolf Pup, this is running very nicely on Puppy4.

dinky · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 699

Will there be a virtualbo for puppy 4.1.1 with the 2.6.25 kernel?