VirtualBox on Ubuntu

[suityou01]

Good job you found the fix. For future ref though, as a workaround it's much safer to crack the app and user folders wide open with chmod -R 777 than to run an app as root. Would achieve the same thing.

Darmstadt

Do not worship other idols

Seriously though, well chuffed. Thanks for your help too CE.

[CalmEddie]

this is running as SUDO I may add root to that group to see if this fixes it.

Good job you found the fix. For future ref though, as a workaround it's much safer to crack the app and user folders wide open with chmod -R 777 than to run an app as root. Would achieve the same thing.

[suityou01]

I had exactly the same problem with VB under Debian (upon which Ubuntu is based) and IIRC it had to do with something like not having created the vboxusers group and then adding my user to it. There might have been a permissions problem in there somewhere as well...

Er, yep, that'll be it then.

Darmstadt you are nothing but a god to me.

[suityou01]

I had exactly the same problem with VB under Debian (upon which Ubuntu is based) and IIRC it had to do with something like not having created the vboxusers group and then adding my user to it. There might have been a permissions problem in there somewhere as well...

It created that group as part of the install. My user is a member, root is not. Seeing as this is running as SUDO I may add root to that group to see if this fixes it. Thanks for the feedback.

[darmstadt]

I had exactly the same problem with VB under Debian (upon which Ubuntu is based) and IIRC it had to do with something like not having created the vboxusers group and then adding my user to it. There might have been a permissions problem in there somewhere as well...

[suityou01]

Virtual Box running on Ubuntu machine is blocking the SIP port.
Virtual Box running on Vista machine is NOT blocking the SIP port.

The Ubuntu box is not running a software firewall. Both are on the same subnet.

Wtf would it block the SIP port?

[suityou01]

That's not how Ubuntu rolls. The latest LTS release is 8.04, which is the most stable version.

I can confirm that VB runs perfectly fine on 8.04 64 bit, and VB3+ runs multiple cores (VMware doesn't unless you pay). I've since reinstalled using 9.10 and the same virtual machines work just fine. Seriously - Don't upgrade from 8 to 9. Re-install. Do it as a side-by-side dual boot if you want to be sure.

Your softphone problems will very likely be to do with the bridge the virtual machine makes with the host.

I prefer VB to VMware, it's a lot more stable. And you can convert VMware VMs to work with virtualbox.

The errors you're getting, is this with a new VM, or an existing one?

Both VB and VM Vms are new today.

I have VB working now. Did nothing different. Installed as logged in user, but need to launch as sudo otherwise I get the stupid com error. Permissions wrong somewhere, but I'm fine running as sudo for now.

[CalmEddie]

Ubuntu is on 9.10 now, Ubuntu 8 is 2007?

That's not how Ubuntu rolls. The latest LTS release is 8.04, which is the most stable version.

I can confirm that VB runs perfectly fine on 8.04 64 bit, and VB3+ runs multiple cores (VMware doesn't unless you pay). I've since reinstalled using 9.10 and the same virtual machines work just fine. Seriously - Don't upgrade from 8 to 9. Re-install. Do it as a side-by-side dual boot if you want to be sure.

Your softphone problems will very likely be to do with the bridge the virtual machine makes with the host.

I prefer VB to VMware, it's a lot more stable. And you can convert VMware VMs to work with virtualbox.

The errors you're getting, is this with a new VM, or an existing one?

[VectraMan]

BTW. How does VB compare in performance to VMWare Workstation? I had some real performance issues with VB.

There is, or was a real problem with the dual core support on VirtualBox, or rather the problem was with IO-APIC which the dual core support turned on. Made the guest OS run dog slow.

I use it all the time, and it's okay. I think VMWare is generally better though, and the general configuration and management of VMs and snapshots is better in VMWare. However, VirtualBox is considerably cheaper.

I had it running okay on Ubuntu 9.

[suityou01]

Cannot be arsed upgrading the whole of ubuntu. That will cause more problems than it fixes

I have VMware installed and working on Ubunutu so I decided to use this.

I have installed asterix, done my screen grabs all going well. Buuuuut.

I cannot connect my softphone to the VMware PBX. Wireshark shows "destination port unreachable" for the SIP connection.

Why? The host has no software firewall, so VMWare must be blocking the port. But I am using bridged networking? Anyone come across VMware doing this?

Lot of unecessary ball ache going on here.

[Ardesco]

Ubuntu is on 9.10 now, Ubuntu 8 is 2007?

Virtualbox in 2007 was not a good bit of software, are the repositories using a 2007 version of the package (something like 1.4 - 1.5).

If so look for an updated version, virtualbox is on 3.1.x now. Of course there is always the possibility that a two year old version of ubuntu is missing some of the requirements for a working up to date virtualbox install. I would suggest updating Ubuntu as well.

[Cliphead]

I prefer Mint 8 which in my opinion is what Ubuntu should have been. No problems with VB on that.

[suityou01]

Nope. I had enough problems trying to get it to share folders with using Windows!

BTW. How does VB compare in performance to VMWare Workstation? I had some real performance issues with VB.

Only had it running on my Vista laptop. It dragged the whole machine down quite a bit and made it run hot. Another reason for wanting it on my ubuntu host.

[MarillionFan]

Nope. I had enough problems trying to get it to share folders with using Windows!

BTW. How does VB compare in performance to VMWare Workstation? I had some real performance issues with VB.

[suityou01]

In an effort to document the steps I took for the linux pbx I have been working on I decided to rebuild the pbx from scratch so I could take screen shots for the how to.

I installed VirtualBox on my ubuntu machine. When I try and launch I get the following error

Failed to create VirtualBox com object

I've tried searching the interweb for a solution, everyone just says to reinstall and it will be fine. Not so.

I am using Ubuntu 8 (Amd64) and the appropriate deb package from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

Anyone seen this before and can give a steer?

Can't believe all the annoying hurdles that are getting in my way.