Error installing Qt 5.7 emulator in 64-bit Ubuntu

embdev · wrote on 8 Sept 2016, 03:38

Dear fellow coders, I want to install Qt emulator on my 64-bit Ubuntu, which is running in VirtualBox virtual machine.
I already have VirtualBox installed on my host windows PC (otherwise won't be able to run 64-bit Ubuntu) but it seems that the installer is unable to detect my VirtualBox path in windows itself. Is there any path reference I need to do?

SGaist · wrote on 8 Sept 2016, 20:51

Hi,

What emulator are you referring to ?

embdev · wrote on 14 Sept 2016, 07:21

Hi @SGaist , i'm finally back aft some network issues!. The emulator is for Qt 5.7 itself.

SGaist · wrote on 14 Sept 2016, 07:30

Again: what do you mean by emulator ? Do you mean your virtual machine ?

embdev · wrote on 14 Sept 2016, 09:02

Oh, my apologies, i'm referring to the Qt creator emulator.

At the point of installation, there's an option to install emulator so I can compile & run everything in Qt Creator itself.

SGaist · wrote on 14 Sept 2016, 20:43

What Qt Creator emulator ?

Qt Creator itself is an IDE

embdev · 15 Sept 2016, 06:47

oh, okies, let me try again, it's the Qt setup (via the installer), then under Qt Embedded, there're a few options for Boot to Qt Software Stack 5.7.0.2, that includes BSP like BeagleBone Black, Raspberry Pi 3 etc.. And one of the options includes Emulator which i'd like to install as well. When I selected this option and click next, the error message prompts:

"VirtualBox was not found on your computer. It is needed to install the Emulator of this SDK. Install VirtualBox first or deselect all Emulator components."

jsulm · E embdev 15 Sept 2016, 01:05

@embdev Well, the error messages already says what you have to do. Did you try to install VirtualBox?

embdev · wrote on 15 Sept 2016, 07:02

Actually I already had virtualbox installed on Windows; somehow the installer can't detect the software

SGaist · wrote on 15 Sept 2016, 09:32

You are installing Qt in a an Ubuntu in Virtual Box. That Ubuntu has absolutely no idea it is running inside a virtual machine.

You are currently expecting that the Linux Qt installer detects your Windows installed Virtual Box from within a Linux guest and use it inside that guest which is just not possible at all.

embdev · 16 Sept 2016, 04:22

Actually previously when installing on 32-bit Ubuntu, with the emulator option selected, the boot2qt was installed on virtualbox automatically but now when I tried to install the emulator in 64-bit Ubuntu, virtualbox was somewhat not detected.

jsulm · E embdev 16 Sept 2016, 01:27

@embdev Is your 64-bit Ubuntu running inside a virtual machine in VirtualBox? If so then as @SGaist said it just cannot work.

embdev · wrote on 16 Sept 2016, 05:52

@jsulm yes you're right, my Ubuntu is running inside my virtual machines. Perhaps slip off my mind, I might have installed my Qt previously in the windows environment, that explains why the boot2qt was installed into the virtualbox itself.

Thanks for the clarification!