Good idea.
I got WINXP and 2003 Server working fine - full screen in all glory.
This time i will compile from source rather than being lazy and
debianising the install!
Thanks chaps.
J
Richard Forth wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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.
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