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Virtual Box: Bin, Guests Additions, Modules? Which do I need

Postby theburrus1 » Mon Sep 19, 2011 7:45

Hi, as you can see referenced on the embedded screenshot, what are all the differences of the types of Virtual Box applications? I installed one that I thought was what I needed but what happens is I end up getting a new Sabayon Kernel 2.6 installed on my bootloader, when I want to just have the 3.0 kernel? So what I desire is just one application of Virtual Box, that I can open and then proceed adding the OS I want to it. I don't want these extra kernels so what should I do? Which Virtual Box should I choose. I have a 64 bit laptop running the Linux 3.0 kernel I got from the updated E17 distro. If anyone has an idea, please help.

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One other thing too, but when I go to my applications lists to find the Virtual Box app, all I can seem to find is the "Virtual Box Manager". And if I open it, it gives me an error about a daemon not being started or running so I don't know what that's about. Any ideas?

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Re: Virtual Box: Bin, Guests Additions, Modules? Which do I

Postby dunsurfin » Mon Sep 19, 2011 20:29

The "guest additions" are what you need to run Linux in the Virtual Machine
The "Modules" are necessary and must match your kernel and the version of virtualbox,
virtualbox-bin is the programme itself and must be installed.

You will also need to edit your /etc/conf.d/modules as in this wiki and reboot.
https://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?titl ... Virtualbox
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Re: Virtual Box: Bin, Guests Additions, Modules? Which do I

Postby theburrus1 » Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:24

thanks!
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