Comments on: How to install VirtualBox Guest Additions for openSUSE guest OS

By: JBone

JBone — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:01:12 +0000

I am still having trouble my kernel and kernel-source same level i have kernel-syms installed and still can’t get it so i can type in the log in box. If I select fail safe i can type in the log in box. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Not sure what I am doing wrong.
Also when in fail safe i change desktop to Display Effects all i get is a white screen now.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:36:56 +0000

Thanks, yes, this helped a lot. I previously followed the instructions listed in http://www.myria.de/computer/software/88-opensuse-111-als-virtualbox-gastsystem but it didn’t work. However install kernel-syms made it. Thanks.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:15:40 +0000

First I install openSUSE 11.2 from DVD.

Afterwards I configure install sources temporarily for a initial installation, by set in the repository priorities DVD as only. (Increase installation speed)

openSUSE 11.2
Virtualbox 3.0.12

As packet manager I used zypper instead of yast2.

1. -> sudo zypper install gcc make (compiler)
2. -> automake autoconf (required by Guest Additions 3.0.12)
3. -> sudo zypper install kernel-source kernel-syms (kernel source)

I found out additional that to “kernel-source” kernel-syms” is required too for a successful installation of Guest Additions 3.0.12.

Finally install Guest Additions with

4. -> sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

With my configuration command line 4. fails if “kernel-syms” is not installed.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:39:07 +0000

you have to install the same version of your kernel-source as you’re running in order to get virtualbox addon to succeed. My combo is
openSUSE 11.1
Virtualbox 3.0.8
Kernel and Kernel-source version 2.6.27.7-9.1

This combo works as long as you make sure the kernel-source version installed via yast2 is the same as the one you get after running

uname -a

By: demo

demo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:58:20 +0000

Well i did find a way to make keyboard work, you have to install vbox guest additions again in failsafe but you’re resolution will reset to 800×600.

By: Lost in London

Lost in London — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:48:01 +0000

@Newbee: thanks but I’ve tried that. I’m running a KDE Desktop, not Gnome, and you go over Yast / Sax2 to change the config there. I have even tried changing the xorg.conf without success.

There are two problems here.

1. The keyboard / keyboard input is not recognised, i.e. I can’t type anything. I can use the mouse (copy / paste)
2. The keyboard is not recognised as a german keyboard.

I guess if you fix 1. then 2. will automatically be fixed.

Thanks all the same.

By: newbee

newbee — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:37:06 +0000

@Lost in London, Axel Schroeder:
hi,
try this: controlcenter/hardware -> keyboard -> layouts and change settings.

maybe this link helps:
http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse103/opensuse103_gnome_user/?page=/documentation/opensuse103/opensuse103_gnome_user/data/bssdjdl.html

By: Lost in London

Lost in London — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:00:47 +0000

Hi,

I am having the same problem as Axel Schroeder. Does anyone know anything?

Booting in failsafe mode gives a ‘us’ (as in american) keyboard layout, which can then be changed in /etc/X11/xconf.conf.install to ‘de’ to give a german layout. But in normal mode the keyboard within the guest machine simply does not react. Outside the guest machine, e.g. the host key, everything works fine.

Host: WinXP (SP2)
Guest: openSUSE 11.1 (with all updates added before adding ‘Guest Additions’)

Thanks to anyone who can add anything here.

By: Axel Schroeder

Axel Schroeder — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:23:05 +0000

Hi!

I’m having the following problem: I’m running openSuse 11 in a VirtualBox on WinVista. I Installed the GuestAdditions (using the *.x86 ISO image, because I couldn’t find an *i586 image), everything seemed to work fine (mouse sharing, desktop resizing, …)… BUT: keyboard layout was changed from German layout to American layout. Well, no big deal, changed it back to German… but after reboot, keyboard isn’t recognized anymore, neither in the login screen nor (using autologin) on the KDE or GNOME desktop.

Have no idea what went wrong, didn’t get any error messages…

Hope any of you guys have an idea or solution for this problem…?

By: grimdeath

grimdeath — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:01:48 +0000

Thanks Jan Van Der Watt! Your method helped me, I had been struggling with this all day!