Well, guys, as usual, I post things that annoy me and how to fix them. So when my horrible memory forgets how to fix a simple issue, I know I can come back to my notes and figure it out again.

So, I’m typing this from my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, installed Virtualbox from official repos (Package from the website has broken dependencies… figuring that out is more annoying than anything…).

As usual, go to your software center, as shown below. And check the following packages are installed.

Yeah yeah, I know what you’re going to say. I tried to install the packages from the website, YES I DID!.

Just make sure the following is installed.

If you’re all right, then you’re missing two probable things. Add yourself to the VirtualBox group as will show next, and you’re probably missing a udev rule that I’ll provide or tell you how to symlink it.

Okay as you can see with my user, I’ve added myself to the group.

hpprotumble:/home/ddemuro # cd /etc/udev/rules.d/
hpprotumble:/etc/udev/rules.d # vim 60-vboxdrv.rules
 
#
# COPY THE FOLLOWING TO THAT FILE!.
#
 
KERNEL=="vboxdrv", NAME="vboxdrv", OWNER="root", GROUP="vboxusers", MODE="0660"                                          
#                                                                                                                         
#these lines below give access permission to vboxusers to properly work with usb nodes, but enabling them could be security risk (bnc#664520) !!
#if you can live with this security problem put these lines below in to the new file /etc/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules so they will stay enabled also after package update
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/lib/udev/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh $major $minor $attr{bDeviceClass} vboxusers"       
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", RUN+="/usr/lib/udev/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh $major $minor $attr{bDeviceClass} vboxusers"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", ACTION=="remove", RUN+="/usr/lib/udev/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh --remove $major $minor"                               
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="remove", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", RUN+="/usr/lib/udev/VBoxCreateUSBNode.sh --remove $major $minor"

Final step and most important… REBOOT!

Straight from VirtualBox website.

As some may know, part of my duties is working with a custom distro and performing many “low level” changes to the operating system to make things work… let’s say, not as they are supposed to.

VirtualBox has been my virtualization platform ever since Linux as my primary Operating System. I say primary because, for testing purposes, Windows is still a big part of my life, Visual Studio, and so on.

VirtualBox continues to step up its game, at times a step behind VMWare, but hey, they have $$ some fair advantage.

As I love OpenSuse here you have VirtualBox in Windows running OpenSuse.

But some let’s list the new awesome features:

1. Paravirtualization Support for Windows and Linux Guests: Significantly improves guest OS performance by leveraging built-in virtualization support on operating systems such as Oracle Linux 7 and Microsoft Windows 7 and newer.
2. Improved CPU Utilization: Exposes a broader set of CPU instructions to the guest OS, enabling applications to make use of the latest hardware instruction sets for maximum performance.
3. Support of USB 3.0 Devices: Guest operating systems can directly recognize USB 3.0 devices and operate at full 3.0 speeds. The guest OS can be configured to support USB 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0.
4. Bi-Directional Drag and Drop Support for Windows: On all host platforms, Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris guests now support “drag and drop” of content between the host and the guest. The drag and drop feature transparently allows the copying or opening of files, directories, and more.
5. Disk Image Encryption: Data can be encrypted on virtual hard disk images transparently during runtime, using the industry-standard AES algorithm with up to 256-bit data encryption keys (DEK). This helps ensure data is secure and encrypted at all times, whether the VM is sitting unused on a developer’s machine or server, or actively in use.

As you know, in Takelan, we use VirtualBox, a LOT, and we use it even for critical mission applications as PfSense running some of our perimeter Firewalls. “www.pfsense.org/” One thing we can’t complain about is Performance.

VirtualBox in this new delivery has made a HUGE step forward in virtualizing technology and just for the fun of it. Here I am, typing this post straight from my Windows VM in OpenSuse.

Why don’t I do it the other way around? and Virtualize OpenSuse?

Because of HTOP! nah, seriously, because Linux just makes my life easier.

And if you don’t get to see the coolness in there.. then, you’re not a real SysAdmin lol.

And with that… all I can say is, Happy Sysadmin’s day everyone.