Talk:VirtualBox
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I really think this article should be cleaned up and simplified. It is a little confusing- specifically the "Using host interface networking" section. I would atempt to do it myself, but I am not super knowlegable about this topic. Even Breaking this into sections with advice on which way would be best to use would be helpful. ~meskarune (Fri, June 26, 2009)
Anybody, any experience with how to use existing vmware virtual machine in virtualbox? I tried, but without success. I'll retry using: http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/howto-transform-a-qemu-image-to-a-virtualbox-image/ and post my findings.
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Could someone please update the wiki with instructions on how to install Guest Additions on an Arch Linux virtual machine? I have been trying to figure this one out for a while now and I can't seem to get the proper daemons/modules to install. ~Thayer (Thursday, 19 July 2007)
I'm bumping this again, because the current instructions don't seem to work.Nevermind, got it working =) ~Thayer (Weds, Aug 6, 2008)
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Corrected USB-problem
The fstab entry contains the group-id 85 which can vary on other PCs. I added a possible solution...
More USB
Can confirm that you can use mass storage USB passthrough with 3.0.4. But you must mount /proc/bus/usb as described in the article for any other types of USB devices such as mice & Blackberries
For me an entry in the fstab was also necessary to use my USB flash drive in the WinXP guest. But instead of the line in the wiki article I had to use this one:
none /sys/bus/usb/drivers usbfs devgid=108,devmode=664 0 0 (see this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=640440)
Using host interface networking (the Arch way) & udev rules
the wiki ask to set a file called 60-vboxdrv.rules under the directory /etc/udev/rules.d, but when I've tried, a file named 60-virtualbox.rules is already here, with the same setting. I don't know if the name matter, how from where the file come (virtualbox-ose via pacman ? guest addition ?)
So I report this. --Gkrnours 04:38, 13 May 2009 (EDT)
vboxdrv module
Since Arch uses MODULES_AUTOLAD=yes by default in /etc/rc.conf, is it still mandatory to add vboxdrv in the MODULES array? I don't think so but I'm not totally sure.
rent0n