Thanks
That's what i thought, but a second opinion always helps :-)
Mark Rogers 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.
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