Hello,
Doesn't seem to work for me, here is the output on my PC (trimmed a bit):
bogdan...@laptop:~/Downloads$ testdrive
1. Ubuntu Desktop (lucid)
+-cache--> [2010-01-21 10:13:01] lucid-desktop-i386.iso
Select an ISO to testdrive: 1
WARNING: Your CPU's lack of VT will seriously impact performance.
INFO: Using VirtualBox for virtual machine hosting...
INFO: Syncing the specified ISO...
rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/lucid-desktop-i386.iso
receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
sent 120 bytes received 97 bytes 86.80 bytes/sec
total size is 700721152 speedup is 3229129.73
INFO: Unsupported version of VirtualBox; pleast install v3.0 or v3.1.
#and then I ran
bogdan...@laptop:~/Downloads$ virtualbox --help
WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
Please install the virtualbox-ose-source package and the appropriate
headers, most likely linux-headers-generic.
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
Sun VirtualBox Graphical User Interface 3.0.8_OSE
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Usage:
--startvm <vmname|UUID> start a VM by specifying its UUID or name
--rmode sdl|image select different render mode (default is sdl)
Testdrive version:
bogdan...@laptop:~/Downloads$ aptitude show testdrive
Package: testdrive
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.17-0ubuntu1~ppa4
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Dustin Kirkland <kirkl...@ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 111k
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, python, qemu-kvm | kvm (>=
1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu12.4) | virtualbox-ose (>= 3.0.8),
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Testdrive downloads the iso but does not launch virtualbox
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499413
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