CentOS - Jul 2020 - virtualbox

Has anyone gotten virtualbox to run on Centos8? I did the install, and 
it complained about missing elflibs, so I installed those, and the 
virtualbox install finished without any reported problems.


when i try to run virtualbox, it fails with this message:

Qt FATAL: This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin 
could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, 
offscreen, vnc, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)


I tried doing dnf reinstall vbox stuff, again, no reported problems, but 
I get the same result.

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On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:49:39 -0500
Chuck Campbell wrote:
> Has anyone gotten virtualbox to run on Centos8?
Yes.

It "just works" for me.
> I did the install, and  it complained about missing elflibs, so I installed
those, and the
> virtualbox install finished without any reported problems.
How did you install it?  I installed it with dnf using the VirtualBox rpm and
didn't get any error messages.

I just checked and I don't have any "elflibs" rpms on this
computer, either.  I do have elfutils-libelf, though, which may be something
similar or may be entirely different.

Again, though, VirtualBox works fine here.  
VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.12_139181_el8-1.x86_64 according to the output from the rpm
-q command.

So all of this makes me wonder if the problem is the way that you installed it
or what you did to satisfy the mystery dependency(?) on elflibs, whatever that
actually may be.

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On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 04:49:39PM -0500, Chuck Campbell
wrote:
> Has anyone gotten virtualbox to run on Centos8? I did the install, and it
> complained about missing elflibs, so I installed those, and the virtualbox
> install finished without any reported problems.
> 
> 
> when i try to run virtualbox, it fails with this message:
> 
> Qt FATAL: This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin
> could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
> 
> Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl,
> offscreen, vnc, xcb.
> 
> Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> 
> I tried doing dnf reinstall vbox stuff, again, no reported problems, but I
> get the same result.
> 
Version 6.1 is running without problem for me.  I download the rpm from
virtualbox.org.  I usually remove the old one before installing. Don't know
if any of that helps.

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On 7/23/2020 4:49 PM, Chuck Campbell wrote:
> Has anyone gotten virtualbox to run on Centos8? I did the install, and 
> it complained about missing elflibs, so I installed those, and the 
> virtualbox install finished without any reported problems.
>
>
> when i try to run virtualbox, it fails with this message:
>
> Qt FATAL: This application failed to start because no Qt platform 
> plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this 
> problem.
>
> Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, 
> offscreen, vnc, xcb.
>
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
>
> I tried doing dnf reinstall vbox stuff, again, no reported problems, 
> but I get the same result.

Sigh,

I was being brain dead again. I was trying to launch it from my remote 
(ssh) terminal. If I walk over to the actual machine console, it 
launches just fine. My apologies for the noise.


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