Re: [vbox-users] an important piece of information that was not on the download page

Bob, On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Bob Skaroff wrote: it took me some time and the installation of an incorrect package to realize that i needed to install virtualbox-2.1 for debian, not simply virtualbox (that was version 1.6.6) thanks for this report. I've updated the download page. Kind

Re: [vbox-users] System Vista 32 On Dual Core : Guest 64 don't work

On Wednesday 24 December 2008, number_...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for your reply. The checkbox is already activate Starting with VirtualBox 2.1 it is necessary to select a 64-bit flavor in the VM settings. If these flavors are not displayed, then your CPU does not support 64-bit. For

[vbox-users] filing bug

Dear All, is there a place to file a bug on Virtual Box? http://www.virtualbox.org/ is down for me and I would like to report that shared folders in Windows guest on Mac host do not work for users without administrator privileges. Peter ___ vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] System Vista 32 On Dual Core : Guest 64 don't work

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: On Wednesday 24 December 2008, number_...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for your reply. The checkbox is already activate Starting with VirtualBox 2.1 it is necessary to select a 64-bit flavor in the VM settings. If

[vbox-users] Help to upgrade please.

Hi all, Sorry to ask a beginner's question, but I am about to upgrade from VB 1.6.6. to 2.1.0, and I can't find any instructions on the web as to how to do this so that I don't have to re-install my virtual machines. I am running openSuse 10.3, and have XP as the guest os. I have just

Re: [vbox-users] Help to upgrade please.

rpm -u virtualbox21.rpm should work. after you start virtual machines under 2.1 do not forget to reinstall guest additions. 2008/12/28, paul williamson pa...@zetnet.co.uk: Hi all, Sorry to ask a beginner's question, but I am about to upgrade from VB 1.6.6. to 2.1.0, and I can't find any

Re: [vbox-users] Help to upgrade please.

Peter, thanks a lot. That worked very smoothly (just needed -U instead of -u :-) ) I still have the problem that I hoped upgrading would solve, so I'll post a new message about that. Paul On Sunday 28 December 2008 13:06:09 Peter Ondruška wrote: rpm -u virtualbox21.rpm should work. after you

[vbox-users] Can't re-start saved machine.

Hi all, Ever since 1.5.2 I have been unable to re-start a saved machine when the host os is installed on a SATA drive. However, I did a stupid thing a couple of days ago, (wiped out a lot of my main HD, but that's another story !) and so I have re-installed my Host OS (openSuse 10.3), this

Re: [vbox-users] assigning more memory to the guest th an exists on the host

Greg, On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Gregory Nowak wrote: The subject pretty much asks my question. Is it possible for me to run a guest os in vbox, with more ram assigned to it than is on the physical host, (I.E,.. run a guest with 800Mb of ram on a host that has 512Mb of ram)? In theory,

Re: [vbox-users] filing bug

Peter, On Saturday 27 December 2008, Peter Ondruška wrote: is there a place to file a bug on Virtual Box? http://www.virtualbox.org/ is down for me and I would like to report that shared folders in Windows guest on Mac host do not work for users without administrator privileges.

Re: [vbox-users] filing bug

Thank, I have created #2914: Shared folders not accessible by non-administrative users but there are similar bugs related so my guess is that shared folders is still something-in-progress :-). Peter On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 17:25, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: Peter, On Saturday 27

Re: [vbox-users] assigning more memory to the guest than exists on the host

On Dec 28, 2008, at 09:17, Frank Mehnert wrote: Greg, On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Gregory Nowak wrote: The subject pretty much asks my question. Is it possible for me to run a guest os in vbox, with more ram assigned to it than is on the physical host, (I.E,.. run a guest with 800Mb

[vbox-users] VirtualBox 2.1.0 Failed to create the VirtualBox COM object

Hi, My host system is Windows XP pro SP3. Being succesfully installed, VirtualBox 2.1.0 doesn't want to start and says that it cannot create COM-object with error code - Unknown status 0x800706BA. I've tried VB installation twice and got the same message. Will be grateful for a sound advice.

[vbox-users] VBox PUEL 2.1.0, Leopard host, Linux guest; USB disk: no joy

Hi all, I'm wondering whether anybody else has had problems with this combination.. I'm just simply not getting this to work, and have played with some workarounds but to no avail. (plug external usb hard disk in before starting VM, after VM has loaded, with mac ext2fsx installed, or

Re: [vbox-users] Is there a plan to support Windows?

Randal T. Rioux 写道: On Sun, December 28, 2008 9:51 pm, Millet Z wrote: Hi All, Is there a plan to support Windows 7? I download a windows 7 iso, and install it in VBox.But the Add-in can't install on. I'm sure once Windows 7 is *officially* released, it will be supported.