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.

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.