Virtualbox AKMOD kernel module. Can it work on Bazzite?
Now I know it's not supported, but there appears to be a fedora kernel mod package for it available now, so maybe there's a way to get it to work.
Trying to install it through rpmfusion and rpm-ostree didn't seem to work, it's failing at the step where it tries to compile a kernel module because the kernel's header files are missing/wrong version.
Has anyone else gotten this to work? I really don't want to dig out my windows PC and run it on there. I haven't touched that thing in months, and I like it that way.
Also: yes I have VirtManager installed, and no it won't work for what I'm working on.
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It can't be used
We offer QEMU via ujust setup-virtualization
At no point will we add virtualbox stuff to Bazzite, but you could make a custom image if you prefer it to qemu/virt-manager for some reason
k. I have QEMU already, but I need to make a Virtualbox template for guys I know who are still stuck on winblows.
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GitHub - ivan-hc/VirtualBox-appimage: Unofficial VirtualBox KVM App...
Unofficial VirtualBox KVM AppImage. Contribute to ivan-hc/VirtualBox-appimage development by creating an account on GitHub.
but yeah, I am in no way complaining or suggesting you add virtualbox.
Just asking if anyone has figured it out yet.
The only way it could be done is a custom image, there is no way for an end user to install that kernel module
Try that app image, that'll be limited for different reasons but it might be enough for your purposes
Yeah, I don't even need hardware acceleration for this. Even just full emulated CPU would be more than fast enough.
I'm making a Win98 template with networking and other goodies already configured.
Already done one for QEMU
https://archive.org/details/win98-qemu-i440x
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Two 4gb qcow2 images 7zipped up together to be used as a base for QEMU installs.The win98.qcow2 file has everything but video drivers. This is mostly intended...
Even managed to pass through a PCIe nVidia 6500.
3D accelerated Win98 FTW!
Basically some friends online are begging me to make a version for VirtualBox.
appimage won't launch. It's missing some libraries... libicui18n.so.76
setting up a distrobox container and trying to run it from there
someone just posted an issue on github for that
and as I sent that, you found that issue
haha
yeah I added myself to that list
you can use appimage from 2 weeks ago
or I can just use a arch container
now I have to remember how to install stuff in arch...
only had arch running for 3 min and it's already broken and can't run updates do to bad certs........
YAY, he fixed it
can't use the usb stuff cause the udev rules are missing.
Not sure if that'd be worth making any updates for though
If this is the same thing I had last month,
sudo pacman -S archlinux-keyring && sudo pacman -Syumy strong dislike of arch updates is the main reason why I stopped using SteamOS on my deck.
(both my Deck and my main rig are on Bazzite)
still can't get the appimage to run any vms though. It's complaining about a NS_ERROR_FAILURE. In the SessionMachine whatever that means... got some things left for me to try though...
got it. It just didn't like the machine I tried to import from my previous attempts. Installing Win98 as we speak...
Making good progress.
Sadly it doesn't seem to be able to access vulkan/opengl so the 3d acceleration bits aren't working, but it's still pretty good so far.
