Problem installing Virtualbox [Solved]

[undoIT]

I'm running Sabayon 8 with KDE 4.8. I tried installing Virtualbox according to the wiki. I did not encounter any errors during the installation steps but Virtualbox is not available to run after reboot. Any suggestions?

http://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title ... Virtualbox

[Fitzcarraldo]

Post the output of the following command run as root user in a Konsole/Terminal window:

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lsmod | grep vbox

[undoIT]

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vboxnetadp              4646  0
vboxnetflt             12893  0
vboxdrv              1757671  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt


[Fitzcarraldo]

Looks OK. And the output of the following two commands, run in a Konsole/Terminal window under your own user account:

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groups
/opt/bin/VirtualBox

[undoIT]

/opt/bin/VirtualBox

that loads up VirtualBox. I do see that the virtualbox-bin.desktop was created in /usr/share/applications/

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Oracle xVM VirtualBox
Type=Application
Comment=Run several virtual systems on a single host computer
Exec=VirtualBox
TryExec=VirtualBox
Icon=virtualbox-bin
Categories=System;Emulator;


However, it wasn't added to the KDE menu?

[undoIT]

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# cp /usr/share/applications/virtualbox-bin.desktop /usr/share/applications/kde4/virtualbox-bin.desktop

now VirtualBox appears in the KDE menu. I'm guessing that the kde4 directory was setup as some kind of legacy thing to prevent conflicts for people still using KDE3. Perhaps this should be abandoned, are there still people installing new KDE distros and then installing KDE3?

[Fitzcarraldo]

/opt/bin/VirtualBox

that loads up VirtualBox. I do see that the virtualbox-bin.desktop was created in /usr/share/applications/

However, it wasn't added to the KDE menu?

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# cp /usr/share/applications/virtualbox-bin.desktop /usr/share/applications/kde4/virtualbox-bin.desktop

now VirtualBox appears in the KDE menu. I'm guessing that the kde4 directory was setup as some kind of legacy thing to prevent conflicts for people still using KDE3. Perhaps this should be abandoned, are there still people installing new KDE distros and then installing KDE3?

I don't think that is the reason, as I don't have your problem. I do have a KDE Menu entry for VirtualBox (it's under Kickoff > Applications > System) and yet I don't have the file /usr/share/applications/kde4/virtualbox-bin.desktop, as you can see:

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fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ locate virtualbox-bin.desktop
/usr/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-bin/files/virtualbox-bin.desktop-2
/usr/share/applications/virtualbox-bin.desktop
fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $

Therefore the reason the application does not appear in the KDE Menu in your case could be distribution-specific. What does the command kde4-config --path data return in your case? In my case I get the following:

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fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ kde4-config --path data
/home/fitzcarraldo/.kde4/share/apps/:/usr/share/apps/
fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $

As you can see, in my installation KDE is configured to know about the two paths /home/fitzcarraldo/.kde4/share/apps/ and /usr/share/apps/. It could be that SL has been configured differently.