virtualbox upgrade

FishyMike · Joined: Dec 14, 2005 Posts: 270

I recently installed an upgrade to virtualbox on my pc, and since then all it wants to do is this spawning session. This session can take hours on end with still zero percent showing in statis bar.

Did I get a bad install or something?

If I leave this thing running will I see some results in a day or so?

ernie · Joined: Dec 16, 2002 Posts: 163

I use Mandriva Linux 2008.1 here, and the version of Virtual Box included with my current Mandriva release is VirtualBox-1.5.6. THis version worked well for me here, but I saw that Sun has a newer version available (VirtualBox-2.0.2). I'm a computer tinkerer. I had no choice to get the latest version from Sun and give it a spin. TO keep this short enough so you will get through it without giving up, I find that I prefer the newer release (VirtualBox-2.0.2).

I downloaded VirtualBox from the Sun WEB site, then uninstalled the version from Mandriva, and finally installed the rpm I got from Sun.

Please take note that I was not having any trouble before switching to the newer version, but it is possible that installing the latest version from Sun will correct whatever went wrong. I do not normally suggest installing software from sources other than what has been packaged for your distribution (Mandriva packages for Mandriva users, Suse pacages for Suse users, etc.) but Sun has packaged Virtual Box for several distributions including Mandriva, Fedora, OpenSuse as well as several others. For this reason I consider the packages to be more likely to work correctly with your distribution (I had to use the 64bit package for all distributions since I use Mandriva x86-64 o my AMD dual-core powered system and still obtained excellent results).

HTH,

FishyMike · Joined: Dec 14, 2005 Posts: 270

i have installed the same but i am faced with that spawning session. im ready to go back to 1.5.

FishyMike · Joined: Dec 14, 2005 Posts: 270

ok i tried going back to 1.5. did the whole uninstall of 2.0 and reinstalled 1.5, only to find out that there are a bunch new config settings that i never had before and i don't know how to do them.

if i want a virtual box it was either 2.0 or nothing, so here i am. this morning i started my virtualbox2.0 and started my xp machine. i am going to allow this spawning session to go all day if necessary just to see what it does.

but i am only giving it this one day, if i have to i will reinstall my entire machine to get my virtualbox fixed.

ernie · Joined: Dec 16, 2002 Posts: 163

In the past when I have had troubles with software packages I have installed, I have found it helpful to remove the packages configuration file (.filemanerc) or its hidden directory in my user space. Virtual Box creates a hidden directory named ~/.VirtualBox

HTH,

FishyMike · Joined: Dec 14, 2005 Posts: 270

i got my 1.5 reinstalled, just have to reinstall everything i had in there. i let that other run for over 7 hours and nothing happened. i will stay with what suse offers only from now on.

ernie · Joined: Dec 16, 2002 Posts: 163

Happy to hear you got it working again. Also sorry you had so much trouble in your attempt to upgrade. As I stated in an earlier post, I normally do not recommend use of software packages not prepackaged for the distribution by the distributor. Your experience is a good example of why I take that stand. I agree with your decision. It is best to stick with software provided by your distributor.