Virtualbox on BlendOS v3
Was wondering if it would be possible to temporarily mount system rw to install vbox as currently I can’t install it in any containers or in BlendOS with the all platform vbox installer. Basically when I try to install it it always complains about missing modules and it’s because they can’t be installed where they normally would because immutable system. Maybe an alternative could be an alternate BlendOS download image that has virtualbox preinstalled? I would love to be able to run any OS under the sun without reboot, even non Linux ones to really push this as far as it can go
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you can't mount the system as rw as far as I know, but you can install vbox with
ahkshara
*ahkshara set-custom-packagesThank you I'll try it in the morning :))
akshara*I was able to install virtualbox and run virtual machines, but I can't install the extension pack becasue the place it wants to install to is readonly.
whatever I wanted a shorter name
Unfortunately I managed to break it. I installed a driver with akshara and forgot to also type virtualbox again so then i had the driver but not virtualbox and when i tried to fix it by typing both packages after set-custom-packages and rebooted, virtualbox didnt work anymore because modules are missing now. Is there a way to completely reset the overlay? i tried drop-overlay and it didnt work "unsupported operation"
Please help I don't know what I've done but I really can't get virtual box working anymore, it did work but I broke it somehow
reinstall and try again?
oh, could you try running
sudo akshara set-custom-packages virtualbox virtualbox-host-dkms?Thank you so much I really don’t want to reinstall I will cry
It still did not work, I will show image of error
I don’t have secure boot on and it worked before so I don’t really know what to do other than reinstall
oh, did you run
modprobe vboxdrv?FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found in directory /lib/modules/6.3.7-zen1-1-zen
hehehe
what is that oxygen theme bro
It’s a fox aero theme on the store thingy :(( i think it pretty, kept normal desktop layout tho because i hate the gnome style one, it even has cool splash screen, but isn’t that not the point anyway? Why funny :((((
hello! I have the same problem with virtualbox (and laravel homestead)
v3 stable should fix this
Can I bump this? I'm on v3 and this is exactly the issue I have with VirtualBox. Remove and reinstall did not work for me, it seemed to keep all of the preferences.
you can try QEMU/KVM with
virt-manager
this should work in v4Thanks I can check that out, is this cmd: sudo system install qemu-desktop virt-manager virt-viewer?
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Not sure that ran last time I tried
No
Not on v4
On v3 yes
Then enable libvirtd as normal
That failed due to a corrupt pgp signature on libnfs. Is that a me or package issue?
Might be an issue with the repo snapshots