Virtual Box Start Error (VNC)

I went to start my Windows XP virtual machine, after something like ~4 years. And it failed to start with an 0x80004005 error: "Could not find the VirtualBox Report Desktop Extension library." Hmmm, that's strange.

Turns out that the extensions loaded by the Windows XP VM uses the library libvncserver which was no longer installed on the host. Unfortunately the VirtualBox Extensions are not integrated into the distribution's package manager.

awilliam@bestia:~> sudo zypper install libvncclient0 libvncserver0
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 2 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  libvncclient0 libvncserver0

2 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 206.5 KiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 480.8 KiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y
Retrieving package libvncclient0-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1.x86_64           (1/2),  73.6 KiB (159.0 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving: libvncclient0-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1.x86_64.rpm ................[done]
Retrieving package libvncserver0-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1.x86_64         (2/2), 132.8 KiB (321.8 KiB unpacked)
Retrieving: libvncserver0-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1.x86_64.rpm ..............[done (2.2 MiB/s)]

Checking for file conflicts: ...............................................................[done]
(1/2) Installing: libvncclient0-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1.x86_64 .................[done]
(2/2) Installing: libvncserver0-0.9.10-lp152.9.8.1.x86_64 ...............[done]
awilliam@bestia:~> 

The Windows XP VM now boots up normally! :) Also, it is phenomenal how fast Windows XP was/is compared to current Windows operating systems.