Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 26 June 2007 11:50, John Andersen wrote: > On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Gordon Keehn wrote: > > On every boot after that, > > initialization proceeds to the point that the vmware interface code > > starts to run, and the virtual machine closes with extreme > > prejudice.   BTW, this is with

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-26 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Gordon Keehn wrote: > On every boot after that, > initialization proceeds to the point that the vmware interface code > starts to run, and the virtual machine closes with extreme prejudice.   > BTW, this is with VMware Server 1.0.3.  I guess you get what you pay for. Or in

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-26 Thread Gordon Keehn
S Glasoe wrote: On Sunday June 24 2007 8:27:39 am S Glasoe wrote: On Saturday June 23 2007 7:53:45 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: How well does VirtualBox integerate the clipboard between the host and guest environments? I think of all the functions of the VMware Tools, clipboard integratio

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-26 Thread S Glasoe
On Sunday June 24 2007 8:27:39 am S Glasoe wrote: > On Saturday June 23 2007 7:53:45 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: > > How well does VirtualBox integerate the clipboard between the host and > > guest environments? I think of all the functions of the VMware Tools, > > clipboard integration is what I us

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps it something about how you installed or configured VMware? I know the configuration Perl script asks you a lot of questions. One of them might bear on the availability of the shared folders function. If you've been carrying forward

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 24 June 2007 15:37, Peter Van Lone wrote: > On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not that I recall. I've had this setup in place for quite a while, > > now. Of course, you have to configure the shared folders in the VM > > configuration dialog _and_ enable them. But

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not that I recall. I've had this setup in place for quite a while, now. Of course, you have to configure the shared folders in the VM configuration dialog _and_ enable them. But beyond just doing those ordinary things, there's nothing speci

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 24 June 2007 15:12, Peter Van Lone wrote: > On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, I don't think the host-to-guest file sharing is done via > > SMB / CIFS. When I view the Properties dialog in my current VMware > > setup, it shows the type as "Network Drive"

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually, I don't think the host-to-guest file sharing is done via SMB / CIFS. When I view the Properties dialog in my current VMware setup, it shows the type as "Network Drive" and the "File System:" as "HGFS" (which I've never seen or hea

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 23 June 2007 17:53, Randall R Schulz wrote: > ... > > How well does VirtualBox integerate the clipboard between the host > and guest environments? I think of all the functions of the VMware > Tools, clipboard integration is what I use most. Second would > probably be file sharing (i.e.,

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread S Glasoe
On Saturday June 23 2007 7:53:45 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: > How well does VirtualBox integerate the clipboard between the host and > guest environments? I think of all the functions of the VMware Tools, > clipboard integration is what I use most. Second would probably be file > sharing (i.e., the

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-23 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 23 June 2007 17:28, S Glasoe wrote: > On Friday June 22 2007 12:50:05 pm Kai Ponte wrote: > > On Fri, June 22, 2007 10:30 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > On Friday 22 June 2007 10:22, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > >> ... > > >> > > >> Alternatively, you could try VirtualBox. > > > > > >

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-23 Thread S Glasoe
On Friday June 22 2007 12:50:05 pm Kai Ponte wrote: > On Fri, June 22, 2007 10:30 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Friday 22 June 2007 10:22, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > >> On 6/22/07, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to > >>

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-23 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Kai Ponte wrote: > Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to > SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main > application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based > controls. > > In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfectly in a 1400x1050 >

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Kai Ponte wrote: > >> I would say you are running the Legacy as the host and >> emulating a Johnny-come-lately-rip-off-of-OS/2 using a great pair of a >> software equivalent of rubber gloves stamped 'VMWare' to prevent >> contaminationa very smart way to goone I whole heartedly agree >>

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Fri, June 22, 2007 10:54 am, Richard Creighton wrote: > Kai Ponte wrote: >> Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to >> SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main >> application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based >> controls. >> >> In any

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Kai Ponte wrote: > Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to > SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main > application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based > controls. > > In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfectly in a 1400x1050 > re

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Fri, June 22, 2007 10:30 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2007 10:22, Alexey Eremenko wrote: >> On 6/22/07, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to >> > SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 22 June 2007 10:22, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > On 6/22/07, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to > > SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main > > application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-b

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Alexey Eremenko
On 6/22/07, Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based controls. In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfec

[opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Kai Ponte
Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based controls. In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfectly in a 1400x1050 resolution with the application