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tamotsu

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Registered: 2024-08-16

Posts: 3

How to set up 32bit virtualbox

We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the q4os team for their continued support.

I'm a Linux beginner who bought an old 32-bit notebook PC with a parallel port in order to start astrophotography this fall, and changed the OS on my 64-bit main PC to Q4OS due to the end of support for Win10 next year.
I considered using qemu-kvm or wine as a virtual machine, but decided that they would be too difficult for a Linux beginner.
It's late, but I would like to ask you a question about setting up the 32-bit version of virtualbox.

I followed the instructions in the past forum to install virtualbox5.2.38-136252 using the command line.
Since the driver for the astronomical camera is for Windows XP, I tried downloading and launching the guest OS, XP.
Then I got the error "driver not installed (rc=1908)".
I searched the Internet for a solution and tried installing the kernel headers, but it didn't work.
Also, on August 19, 2017, I tried to install the dkms package by referring to the forum, but an error occurred midway and I was unable to install it, probably because the article was out of date.

I am new to q4os so please help me so that I can complete the setup successfully.
Please note that I used a translation software to write this article, so please forgive me if there are any grammatical errors.

Thank you for reading.

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,333

Re: How to set up 32bit virtualbox

I your machine is 64 bit then you should be using the 64 bit version of Virtualbox. If you want to run a 32bit OS inside a Virtualbox VM then that's fine - it will cope.
It is not clear from your post, how does the astronomical camera connect to your PC? You mentioned a parallel port connector on the old laptop you were using, so is it a parallel port connector you are trying to emulate on the virtualbox guest and does your main PC have a parallel port connector?

tamotsu

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Registered: 2024-08-16

Posts: 3

Re: How to set up 32bit virtualbox

@Bin

Thank you for your message.

I own several astrophotography cameras, including parallel port type cameras and USB connection type cameras.

The drivers used are different for each, but the USB camera driver is also from the XP generation, so I plan to emulate a parallel port and USB-connected camera using the virtualbox guest OS XP on a 32-bit PC with Q4OS installed. .

The notebook PC for the astronomical camera is an IBM thinkpad G40.

The specifications are pentium4 2.4Ghz RAM 2Gb HDD 250Gb.

Sorry for my lack of knowledge.

I'm seriously in trouble! Please help! !

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,333

Re: How to set up 32bit virtualbox

So, the way I read this is that you have a Pentium 4 Thinkpad on which you are going to install a 32 bit Q4OS with virtualbox running XP as a guest OS and you are then hoping to connect parallel and USB port cameras via VB.

Irrespective of the challenges with the camera connections, your Thinkpad just does not have the resources to do this. If it currently runs XP then just use that.

tamotsu

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Registered: 2024-08-16

Posts: 3

Re: How to set up 32bit virtualbox

Understood. thank you