Comments on: Geeky Project Part 2: Create a WebCenter VM

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:24:33 +0000

Haven't had a chance to try yet, working on other things, will try later in the week.

By: oraclenerd

oraclenerd — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:52:49 +0000

did either work for you?

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:33:02 +0000

Sweet. Many thanks.

By: oraclenerd

oraclenerd — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:32:05 +0000

It does, just finished, OEL, VirtualBox and Shared Folders

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:14:29 +0000

This seems odd to me b/c I can get the resolution higher, but only after I login, embiggen the guest window and restart. Wonder if that maps somehow to the kernel packages you mention.

I'll definitely give it a try, since it will save me some extra steps and about 5 minutes of startup/shutdown/startup time.

Thanks for adding to the thread. Does your post include wisdom on shared folders?

By: oraclenerd

oraclenerd — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:55:23 +0000

Very weird happenings...2 weeks ago I created an OEL 5.4 guest, and I couldn't get the resolution higher than what you mentioned. I just created one, and voila! it works.

I wrote it up a few months ago and here's the link: http://www.oraclenerd.com/2009/07/oel-virtualbo...

I think, but I can't confirm yet, that it may have been due to the packages/libraries/whatever I added. Instead of just adding kernel-devel* and kernel-head*, I added all of them. Like I said, I can't confirm that until I retest. So here's the command:

[root@localhost Server]# cd /media
[root@localhost media]# cd Enterprise Linux cd 1 20090908/Server/
[root@localhost Server]# ls -l kernel*
-rw-r--r-- 2 oracle root 16518040 Sep 3 22:01 kernel-2.6.18-164.el5.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 2 oracle root 16825154 Sep 3 22:01 kernel-debug-2.6.18-164.el5.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 2 oracle root 5655277 Sep 3 22:01 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-164.el5.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 2 oracle root 5594046 Sep 3 22:01 kernel-devel-2.6.18-164.el5.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 2 oracle root 3170765 Sep 3 22:01 kernel-doc-2.6.18-164.el5.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 2 oracle root 1031922 Sep 3 22:02 kernel-headers-2.6.18-164.el5.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 2 oracle root 16536766 Sep 3 22:02 kernel-PAE-2.6.18-164.el5.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 2 oracle root 5613262 Sep 3 22:02 kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-164.el5.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 2 oracle root 17671768 Sep 3 22:02 kernel-xen-2.6.18-164.el5.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 2 oracle root 5610959 Sep 3 22:02 kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-164.el5.i686.rpm
[root@localhost Server]# rpm -ivh kernel*

Install each and every one of those. The first time, I somehow missed kernel-devel* and nothing worked. After I loaded that all was right in the world and now I have full screen resolution on a 20in monitor (1400x974)

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:24:33 +0000

Haven't had a chance to try yet, working on other things, will try later in the week.

By: oraclenerd

oraclenerd — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:52:49 +0000

did either work for you?

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:33:02 +0000

Sweet. Many thanks.

By: oraclenerd

oraclenerd — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:32:05 +0000

It does, just finished, OEL, VirtualBox and Shared Folders

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:14:29 +0000

By: oraclenerd

oraclenerd — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:55:23 +0000

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:19:35 +0000

Thanks. If I need shares later, I'll drop an email with more details.

By: Michael Thayer

Michael Thayer — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:26:56 +0000

Well, if it had been that issue it would have been a quirk of the mount commant If trying different share names did not help (and you made sure that you tried names that didn't exist as files or directories inside your guest) then it was probably something else. As I said, feel free to describe in a bit more detail what you did (by e-mail is fine too), and maybe I can work out what went wrong.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:35:15 +0000

Yup, the note that promised to fix that error exaggerated a bit, since it was just, as you say, hidden by adding x11. No worries, and again, not a VBox issue, an OEL one.

I was able to get resize to work by changing the size and immediately restarting, but that change didn't stick after a shut down. That leads me to wonder if there's a way to change the resolution permanently beyond 1024 x 768, albeit not dynamically. Thoughts?

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:32:22 +0000

Hi Michael. Thanks for the assist. I tried several share names with no success, and I did see the note that this is a mount command quirk and not a VBox issue. Will clarify that in the post.

Not a big deal really, since I ended up downloading WC directly into the VM.

Love VBox, keep up the good work.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:29:00 +0000

Hey Achim. Thanks for the immediate bug turnaround. Not a big deal really, just something I noticed while writing this post. I think the Guest Additions are fine on OEL, considering the Xorg limitations. I suppose it's moot now, since I downloaded WC to the VM, but any ideas on how to get shared folders working?

Great work on VBox. I'm a big fan.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:25:58 +0000

Rich went through too, dumping his Ubuntu box for 100% Mac. I would too, but I like to have a work computer vs. a paper weight.

Paul says he's more productive on Mac. Many of us agree.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:24:23 +0000

Agreed for the most part, but I think it's fine to have one server and one desktop distro b/c they have very different goals and users.

Getting Linux running would be nigh impossible without Google for support, even though it's challenging to get a straight answer in many cases.

I just don't see the community coming together around a single anything, which is what makes FOSS both awesome and awful all at once.

By: Michael Thayer

Michael Thayer — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:32:30 +0000

Oh yes, forgot to mention – the (informational!) message about the system “not supporting OpenGL” means that the guest that you have installed (i.e. Oracle Enterprise Linux) does not have sufficient OpenGL support to enable the Guest Additions support for accelerated 3D effects. There is no error to correct there, your workaround just prevents the message from being shown.

I can redo the message if it is not clear enough though.