Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Skype: P2P connect failed
I just installed skype-2.0.0.72-suse. I couldn't login and instead got a "P2P connect failed" error. Obviously there were some spare files from a previous installation prohibiting the login. A rm -r .Skype in my users home directory resolved the problem.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Virtualbox on opensuse 11.1
A short and quick installation guide for virtualbox v2.0.6 on a Dell XPS M1330 with opensuse 11.1.
I installed Virtual OSE (opensource edition) available in the openSUSE OSS repository
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/
In addition I installed:
- virtualbox-kmp that has mandatory vboxdrv kernel driver
- Xalan-c package
- Xerces-c package
It's all described at the openSuSE Virtualbox_Installation guide.
After installing it, I loaded the vboxdrv module and added myself or actually my username to the "vboxusers" group:
# modprobe vboxdrv
# groupmod --add-user vboxusers
Logout and login in order that adding a user to a group is taking effect. The article mentioned above also explains how to auto load the driver after reboot.
I launched Virtualbox from the KDE Application Launcher Menu under "Recently Installed" applications.
Then I installed Windows Vista in Virtualbox. On this openSuSE page is a description how to create a new virtual machine.
After the installation:
The network was not working after the install. I read that I have to install the VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe - "The 32-bit VirtualBox Guest Additions executable for Windows guest systems.".
I downloaded the VBoxGuestAdditions_2.0.6.iso from download.virtualbox.org.
In the VirtualBox setup screen under "Details", CD/DVD-ROM I checked the ISO Image File box and pointed it to the VirtualBox ISO.
Then I booted Windows, opened a file browser and pointed it to the virtual CD/DVD drive and with that to the ISO. The driver (network, video ....) got installed automatically.
Afterwards, network was available and automatic mouse/keyboard release. Network, both wireless and wired network work, although I read somewhere wireless is only working with IPv4.
I didn't have sound, so I had to change the Audio Host Driver to PulseAudio as this is the audio system I'm using. I know other people use Alsa, so whatever applies to your system.
So far these things are working and I was able to watch a movie on Netflix, my main and actually only reason, why I would want to use Windows.
I installed Virtual OSE (opensource edition) available in the openSUSE OSS repository
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/
In addition I installed:
- virtualbox-kmp that has mandatory vboxdrv kernel driver
- Xalan-c package
- Xerces-c package
It's all described at the openSuSE Virtualbox_Installation guide.
After installing it, I loaded the vboxdrv module and added myself or actually my username to the "vboxusers" group:
# modprobe vboxdrv
# groupmod --add-user
Logout and login in order that adding a user to a group is taking effect. The article mentioned above also explains how to auto load the driver after reboot.
I launched Virtualbox from the KDE Application Launcher Menu under "Recently Installed" applications.
Then I installed Windows Vista in Virtualbox. On this openSuSE page is a description how to create a new virtual machine.
After the installation:
The network was not working after the install. I read that I have to install the VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe - "The 32-bit VirtualBox Guest Additions executable for Windows guest systems.".
I downloaded the VBoxGuestAdditions_2.0.6.iso from download.virtualbox.org.
In the VirtualBox setup screen under "Details", CD/DVD-ROM I checked the ISO Image File box and pointed it to the VirtualBox ISO.
Then I booted Windows, opened a file browser and pointed it to the virtual CD/DVD drive and with that to the ISO. The driver (network, video ....) got installed automatically.
Afterwards, network was available and automatic mouse/keyboard release. Network, both wireless and wired network work, although I read somewhere wireless is only working with IPv4.
I didn't have sound, so I had to change the Audio Host Driver to PulseAudio as this is the audio system I'm using. I know other people use Alsa, so whatever applies to your system.
So far these things are working and I was able to watch a movie on Netflix, my main and actually only reason, why I would want to use Windows.
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