(Did you miss a bit?)
CPU…Why not?
Which architecture of Mint 13 MATE were you trying to install in VirtualBox ? .. 32 or 64bit ?–
The 64bit one.
CPU...Why not?
My mistake … after going through your CPU flags again I’ve spotted svm … so your AMD CPU DOES support hardware accelerated virtualisation.
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I meant that bit when I said ‘Did you miss a bit’
then what…
Then VirtualBox will be uninstalled like you asked ?
MP has covered the installation of KVM.
S what “bit” do you consider missing ?
The bit in BOLD in my last post…
‘Then if you wish delete the “Virtualbox” directory from your Home directory.’
…I do what?
You say what to do to ‘uninstall’ but then go on to say something else without finishing…
I can’t see what else I could add to that … if you want to, go into your “Home” directory and delete the directory called “Virtualbox” ???
You can’t seriously be telling me that after all this time you don’t know what a “directory” is, or where your “Home” directory is ???
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I might be wrong but is it possible the confusion here might be like me pooky is wondering why there should be a “Virtualbox” directory in his home folder AFTER it’s been completely un-installed (–purge)
Graeme
That’s why I am asking the question
Sorry Mark, I have just re-read the line I put in BOLD
‘Then if you wish delete the “Virtualbox” directory from your Home directory.’
and just before I read that, that’s when I first saw your post;
‘You can’t seriously be telling me that after all this time you don’t know what a “directory” is, or where your “Home” directory is ???’
You know how your mind sometimes ‘fills in the blanks’, well, I saw ‘Then if you wish to delete the “Virtualbox”…’, I was expecting some more instructions.
You should have put;
‘Then if you wish, delete the “Virtualbox” directory from your Home directory.’
[b][1]
Sorry for all the confusion, I just wanted to be sure of all the steps before I did anything to remove the Virtualbox from my PC.
/b ↩︎
I followed MP’s instructions to install the ‘other’ VM
sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-utils virt-manager libvirt-bin
To which, I get:-
[spoiler]Unable to connect to libvirt:
Failed to connect socket to ‘/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock’: Permission denied
Verify that:
- The ‘libvirt-bin’ package is installed
- The ‘libvirtd’ daemon has been started
- You are member of the ‘libvirtd’ group
Libvirt URI is: qemu:///system
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py”, line 1185, in _open_thread
self.vmm = self._try_open()
File “/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py”, line 1167, in _try_open
flags)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py”, line 102, in openAuth
if ret is None:raise libvirtError(‘virConnectOpenAuth() failed’)
libvirtError: Failed to connect socket to ‘/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock’: Permission denied[/spoiler]
(Screenshot)
What do I need to do to fix this?
What’s the output from:
dpkg -l | grep libvirt
and
groups
@ Emegra
The Virtualbox directory in your Home directory is where any created VM’s will have been saved (by default) … these VM’s won’t be removed, even by a “purge” of vitualbox … purge will just uninstall virtualbox and its configuration files, NOT any VM’s you created … in the same way you wouldn’t expect a purge of LibreOffice to delete any documents you created with it 
@ Pooky
OK I’m no English professor, but …
Seriously ? … a comma makes that sentence read differently ?
I can only see the need for a comma if it was possible to read it as wish-delete, but I figured you’d know you couldn’t delete it by wishing
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dpkg -l | grep libvirt
pooky2483@pooky2483-ubuntu12:~$ dpkg -l | grep libvirt
ii libvirt-bin 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.7 programs for the libvirt library
ii libvirt0 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.7 library for interfacing with different virtualization systems
ii libvirtodbc0 6.1.4+dfsg1-0ubuntu1 high-performance database - ODBC libraries
ii python-libvirt 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.7 libvirt Python bindings
pooky2483@pooky2483-ubuntu12:~$
groups
pooky2483@pooky2483-ubuntu12:~$ groups
pooky2483 adm disk cdrom sudo dip video plugdev lpadmin sambashare vboxusers
pooky2483@pooky2483-ubuntu12:~$
LOL… Mark, ‘wishing’… If only
Use “Users and Groups” to add yourself to the libvirtd group.
The REBOOT.
Then try:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall qemu-kvm qemu-utils libvirt-bin virt-manager
Done it and it works 
Thanks all for the help
I’ve managed to install Mint13 MATE in it and while looking around seeing what’s in Mint13, somehow the mouse ‘came out’ of the screen and wouldnt let me get back in to control the ‘virtual mouse’. How do I get back in to control the ‘virtual mouse’
If just clicking inside the guest window doesn’t cause the mouse to be captured … try Ctrl+Alt
It wont let me get ‘inside’ the box, it goes ‘behind’ the ‘virtual screen’
If it happens again, I’ll try it.
That didn’t work Mark, it wont even let me ‘inside’ the virtual area.
Have you tried bringing the running VM window into focus, then hitting Ctrl+Alt ?
It won’t let me, it’s as if each one is a pane of glass and the virtual OS is at the front and I can only go behind it and not in front of it to interact with it and the ‘CTRL’+‘ALT’ don’t work.
Bring it into focus with Alt+Tab … then when it’s the active window, click Ctrl+Alt if necessary.