Installs but doesn't fire off

[Matt Donnelly]

I installed Test Drive on my 64-bit Dell Studio 14z running Ubuntu 9.10. It installs under Applications --> System Tools, but when I click to start the program and then enter "1" (or any number) from the menu, the window just closes and nothing else happens. I'm not a geek, but I'd be happy to help test this.

[Paul Rudkin (paulgit)]

Hi, I am pretty sure this going to be the same as Bug #495178. Are you running VirtualBok v3.1?

Could you please open a terminal window and testdrive from there (simply type 'testdrive' and press the enter key). If your output is the same as in Bug #495178 then you can help test my patch which is attached to that bug! ;)

[Matt Donnelly (donnellymp)]

I think the GUI should add the helpful info I got from entering 'testdrive' from the command line (see below). Test Drive should also detect whether kvm or virtualbox is best for one's PC.

Not knowing how to install the patch, I installed virtualbox-ose. Seems to be working as advertised now.

My output was as follows:

matt@matt-laptop:~$ testdrive
  1. Ubuntu Desktop (lucid)
  2. Ubuntu Server (lucid)
  3. Ubuntu Alternate (lucid)
  4. Ubuntu DVD (lucid)
  5. Ubuntu Netbook Remix (lucid)
  6. Other (prompt for ISO URL)

Select an ISO to testdrive: 1

ERROR: You must have either /usr/bin/kvm or /usr/bin/VBoxManage installed.
HINT: Consider installing kvm if your CPU supports VT, or virtualbox-ose...
 egrep "flags.*:.*(svm|vmx)" /proc/cpuinfo && \
   sudo apt-get install kvm || \
   sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose

matt@matt-laptop:~$ ^C
matt@matt-laptop:~$

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

THanks for the report. Good point. I have a fix.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package testdrive - 1.16-0ubuntu1

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testdrive (1.16-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * testdrive, testdrive-select-iso: separate the img and iso in the
    cache directory
  * doc/testdrive.1, testdrive: respect xdg, LP: #501766
  * debian/control: depend on virtualbox >= 3.0.8 (Karmic), which currently
    seems to be the oldest successfully tested version of virtualbox to
    work with testdrive, LP: #499413
  * testdrive-select-iso: if the user doesn't have VT, then defaul to
    i386 images, LP: #497984
  * testdrive, testdrive.desktop: make sure error messages get shown to
    the user, if running from the desktop menu, LP: #497955

  [ Paul Rudkin and Dustin Kirkland ]
  * testdrive: support virtualbox 3.1, LP: #495178
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:51:23 -0600