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On Fri, 05 Feb 2016 15:59:21 +0000 |
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Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> Since VirtualBox was upgraded from 4.3.32 to 5.0.14 recently, I've |
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> been getting a little transient notice panel on my KDE4 screen saying |
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> something like "the virtualbox kernel service is... [not running]". |
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I've seen similar messages when the guest is running an older version |
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of virtualbox guest additions. Is your XP guest still running 4.3.32? |
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> My WinXP guest runs happily in its virtual box, but the Atlas BOINC |
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> client, which downloads a VirtualBox client to operate in, reports |
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> communication failure. |
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I'm wondering if the problem is only with BOINC. Do you still see the |
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pop-up notice if you don't even try to run BOINC? |
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BTW, have you tried this: |
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http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_BOINC_on_Gentoo |
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I haven't, but I tried downloading the generic linux BOINC installer |
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and of course it wanted a gtk library I've never heard of. |
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