Yes but you do it through the "Virtual Box Additional Support Drivers" (I cant remember the name exactly) which is an ISO that you download when prompted by VirtualBox, and mount it as a disk on the virtual machine and it installs all the drivers for you and also enables the "seamless mode". The ISo it asks you to download depends on the os you are virtualising, so its pretty much guarranteed to work first time, I virtualised Windows 2000 professional and the ISO it mounted worked perfectly and I got all the drivers installed correctly.
On 11/03/2008, Mark Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > substation wrote: > > Does Virtual Box support adding graphics drivers to the virtual o/s or > > can you only install the base operating system disk? > > I was playing with W2K but couldn't get the graphics drivers installed > > - it kept dumping out saying that it didn't recognise the card. > > In common with all similar VM technologies, the virtual machine has a > virtual graphics card, so yes you can install drivers (indeed you should > install drivers) but they'll be the drivers for the virtual card, not > your real graphics card (which the VM can't "see"). Similarly you'll > need the drivers for the virtual network card, etc. > > There will normally be a driver "disk" (ie disk image) supplied by the > VM, however from memory I think that the drivers for VirtualBox are not > free (as in speech, or even as in beer except for personal use) which is > why they're not installed by default. I might have that bit wrong, but > check the VirtualBox site for details. > > I tried to switch to VirtualBox for many of the reasons in this thread, > but the driver issue is what I think stopped me. At the moment I mostly > use VMWare (free as in beer, not as in speech, but drivers included). > > One last point: the VM's virtual graphics hardware will not support 3D > acceleration. This is starting to become available on some VM products > (eg it's there at an experimental in the (not-free in any sense) VMWare > workstation product, I've not tried it though, and to my knowledge no > free virtualisation packages support it). This means that applications > that require 3D graphics acceleration will not work in a VM. In those > cases Wine often becomes the better option. > > -- > Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 > Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > -- ***** Richard Forth "I used to be indecisive, but now, I''m not so sure!" *****
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