This  how-to  is written  for  Linux beginners or  openSUSE 10.3  newbies  who are

already familiar with the VirtualBox software.  In this article,  I will show  you how

to set up the open source version of VirtualBox by InnoTek on your new openSUSE

10.3  x86_64.   As you  know,  VirtualBox is a virtualization software for  x86 hard-

ware, suitable for enterprise and home users.

The DVD image of openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 has an older version of  VirtualBox 1.5.0.

In order to install the latest VirtualBox 1.5.2 OSE, I decided to use the Build Service

of openSUSE.  By the way,  I am going to install VirtualBox 1.5.2 OSE  into my new

openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 residing on my Compaq Presario notebook with Turion 64x2

processor, with AMD's AMD-V hardware virtualization capability.

The first thing you have to do is to launch YaST and then you have to run the comm-

unity repository tool so that you can add the openSUSE Build Service repository for

the latest VirtualBox 1.5.2 OSE, which was released on 18th of October 2007.

After YaST has updated its rpm database, you can now launch the Package Selector

of YaST.  At the Package Selector, you only need to choose to install VirtualBox 1.5.2

OSE.   The  needed-set of  packages,  namely  virtualbox-1.5.2-13.2.x86_64.rpm  and

virtualbox-kmp-default-1.5.2_2.6.22.5_31-13.2.x86_64.rpm  rpm packages  with sizes

of 12.25MB and 59.31kB respectively will be downloaded from the openSUSE Build

Service repository.  It took only about 3 minutes to download. Pretty fast!

After the completion  of the installation  of VirtualBox software  and  its dependency,

you have to load the kernel driver for VirtualBox by executing, modprobe vboxdrv,

at  the command-line.  Subsequently,  you have to add the current user or yourself to

the  vboxusers  group  using YaST.   Please remember  to logout  and login again for

this to take effect.

Should you receive  an error message on  the kernel driver, upon  starting the virtual

machine,  you may have to  set up  the kernel driver  for VirtualBox  properly. This is

done  by executing  the  vboxdrv setup  commad  at  the  /etc/init.d  directory,  as a

root user.  If you have problems with setting up VirtualBox on openSUSE 10.3 or on

other Linux distros, you can visit its forum. 

Once you have started the VirtualBox program,  you may want  to enable  its support

for the AMD or Intel's  hardware virtualization technology,   provided that  your CPU

has such capability. 

Thank you for reading this mini how-to.

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By Michael Shee Choon Beng. 

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