I did it the lazy mans way..lol On 11/03/2008, substation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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]> 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!" > > ***** > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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