Hi, I think if we include version numbers in which we have experienced such failures, we could better check whether it has been fixed and working properly in the current releases or not... AAP...
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Caecos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have two laptops running Windows (XP Pro and Vista Ultimate) and I > have bad experiences with VirtualBox. Presently, I use VMplayer and > everything goes fine... > > I have experimented Wubi (Ubuntu under Windows) and the conclusion was > a lot of crashes or SAGE and even refused to build... > > I will try AndLinux to see how is goes but VMware is good for > me...before a native Windows version. > > Marc > > On 27 août, 08:49, "Ondrej Certik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Martin Albrecht > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >> Does anybody here have any experience using VirtualBox with windows? > > >> What did you think? > > >> Good or bad? > > > > > I don't run it on Windows but on Linux. I use it to build/test M4RI > under > > > OpenSolaris and Windows XP which are both very well supported as guest > > > systems (Linux is also well supported as a guest system). It seems to > have > > > all the bell and whistles people expect these days: copy 'n' paste, > seamless > > > mode etc. So I'd say it is worth a try. > > > > Yep, the same experience here, I also use it in Debian with WinXP > > loaded in it to test sympy and it just works. > > > > One problem is that the images are not compatible between releases of > > virtualbox, so when I upgraded my Debian sid, I had to reinstall > > windows, because the old image didn't load in newer virtualbox. That > > sucks, but one can live with it. > > > > Ondrej > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
