PCLinuxOS 2010 minime: Problems as guest in Virtualbox

[loukingjr]

OK...I've finally gotten it to work.

When I installed PCLOS2010 as a guest the following packages were installed by default: x11-driver-input-vboxmouse, x11-driver-input-vmmouse, x11-driver-video-vboxvideo, and dkms-vboxadditions.

I was installing Sun's VBoxGuestAdditions over these packages.

There must be an incompatibility between Sun's VBoxAdditions and PCLOS' x11 drivers or dkms-vboxadditions. (I checked my 2009.2 install and noticed that "dkms-vboxadd" was not installed by default, though the vbox "x11" drivers were).

I performed another PCLOS install from the 2010 minime .iso and uninstalled dkms-vboxadditions, x11-driver-input-vboxmouse, and x11-driver-video-vboxvideo.

I then rebooted the PCLOS virtual machine.  As I expected I was greeted by a text login console (since the x-drivers had been removed).  I then mounted Sun's VBoxGuestAdditions (mount /dev/cdrom /media) and installed the guest additions (./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run).

I rebooted and have had no problems since.

hmmm, I tried this... first after uninstalling everything, I did "mount /dev/cdrom /media" and got "mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write protected, mounting read only" and then I did "./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run" and got the old "No such file or directory"

beats me

[loukingjr]

OK...I've finally gotten it to work.

When I installed PCLOS2010 as a guest the following packages were installed by default: x11-driver-input-vboxmouse, x11-driver-input-vmmouse, x11-driver-video-vboxvideo, and dkms-vboxadditions.

I was installing Sun's VBoxGuestAdditions over these packages.

There must be an incompatibility between Sun's VBoxAdditions and PCLOS' x11 drivers or dkms-vboxadditions. (I checked my 2009.2 install and noticed that "dkms-vboxadd" was not installed by default, though the vbox "x11" drivers were).

I performed another PCLOS install from the 2010 minime .iso and uninstalled dkms-vboxadditions, x11-driver-input-vboxmouse, and x11-driver-video-vboxvideo.

I then rebooted the PCLOS virtual machine.  As I expected I was greeted by a text login console (since the x-drivers had been removed).  I then mounted Sun's VBoxGuestAdditions (mount /dev/cdrom /media) and installed the guest additions (./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run).

I rebooted and have had no problems since.

when you say "got it to work"? is openGL or hardware acceleration working?

[loukingjr]

okay well, I answered my own question. just for grins again I downloaded and installed minime, followed the instructions and of course when all is said and done, you still can't use openGL rendering. not with the pre-installed guest additions nor the PUEL additions.