Re: [vbox-users] Cannot Run (repost)

On Monday 16 March 2009, David Baron wrote: On Monday 16 March 2009 19:09:38 Frank Mehnert wrote: On Monday 16 March 2009, David Baron wrote: On Sunday 15 March 2009 22:36:49 Johannes Kastl wrote: Ran it in a console/yakuake session. The window comes up, shows the animation, then a

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 2.2 Beta 1 released

On Wednesday 18 March 2009, David wrote: On 3/18/2009 3:36 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, please do not use this VirtualBox Beta release on production machines. A VirtualBox Beta release should be considered a bleeding-edge release meant for early evaluation and testing purposes. You

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 2.2 Beta 1 released

[snipped] There is! The two Windows packages were merged into one and the installer will decide which version to install. Will vbox now support x64 guest? I hate to use vmware just to try x64 guest because it is slow. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 2.2 Beta 1 released

On 3/19/2009 5:02 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: On Wednesday 18 March 2009, David wrote: On 3/18/2009 3:36 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, please do not use this VirtualBox Beta release on production machines. A VirtualBox Beta release should be considered a bleeding-edge release meant for early

[vbox-users] OT: I hope Sun employees revolt

I don't want to see VirtualBox, and OpenOffice, and other projects stagnate under an Inmense Bureaucratic Mammoth or others like Netbeans become Eclipsed... Please, revolt, write to that ponytail CEO of yours... Even under Dell or HP it'll fare better than under the weight of Big Blue. Or better

Re: [vbox-users] OT: I hope Sun employees revolt

2009/3/19 Brian J. Murrell br...@interlinx.bc.ca: Hrm. You don't seem to have a grasp on how things work in the real world... Hello Brian, Thanks for enlightening me about what goes on in the real world outside my bubble. I forgot to say I was an IBM customer and had contact with top execs

Re: [vbox-users] OT: I hope Sun employees revolt

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 16:30 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: Buy hey, WTF do I know... Hey. I said nothing about the pros/cons of IBM buying Sun so let's not muddy the waters with such debate and instead continue to concentrate on your advise, that the employees should stop this acquisition...

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 2.2 Beta 1 released

2009/3/19 Umarzuki Mochlis umarz...@gmail.com: [snipped] Will vbox now support x64 guest? I hate to use vmware just to try x64 guest because it is slow. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net VirtualBox has supported 64bit Guests since 2.0.0 (2008-09-04).

Re: [vbox-users] OT: I hope Sun employees revolt

Fernando Cassia wrote: I don't want to see VirtualBox, and OpenOffice, and other projects stagnate under an Inmense Bureaucratic Mammoth or others like Netbeans become Eclipsed... Please, revolt, write to that ponytail CEO of yours... Even under Dell or HP it'll fare better than under the

[vbox-users] How to access localhost using host networking?

Hi all, I just tried out host networking after using NAT for a long time. I have an Ubuntu Hardy host and WinXP guest, and under NAT I could access Ubuntu's localhost at http://10.0.2.2. Can the guest access the host's localhost when using host networking? I know I'm connected okay as I can see

Re: [vbox-users] How to access localhost using host networking?

On 3/19/09 9:24 PM James Coglan wrote: I just tried out host networking What do you mean: Host interface or hostonly networking? And which version of VB do you use? Regards, OJ -- In its default setup, Windows XP on the Internet amounts to a car parked in a bad part of town, with the doors

Re: [vbox-users] OT: I hope Sun employees revolt

[ Comments below, in line ] On Thursday 19 March 2009 at 3:49 pm, Brian J. Murrell penned about Re: [vbox-users] OT: I hope Sun employees revolt On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 16:30 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: Buy hey, WTF do I know... Hey, can you guys talk between yourselves? Please?

Re: [vbox-users] modifyhd: ERROR: Shrink operation not implemented!

On Thursday 19 March 2009, mig...@toursbymexico.com wrote: Hello I tried to shrink my windows virtual disk as described in the manual, zeroed blank space using sdelete, then tried VBoxManage modifyhd MYDISK.vdi compact and I get ERROR: Shrink operation not implemented! Is it or not

Re: [vbox-users] OT: I hope Sun employees revolt

You (Brian J. Murrell) write: Great, I will ask you when there's an odd bug in Virtualbox then and IBM has decided to fire Frank Mehnert and his Vbox team Virtualbox doesn't suit IBM's agenda of the day and has put Virtualbox in maintenance mode (now renamed IBM Wesphere Enterprise

[vbox-users] Windows XP host, couldn't boot up pre installed CentOS on hdd with vbox.

Hello, All, I wanted to boot up a installed CentOS but failed. host: windows xp sp2, installed on IDE hdd. virtualbox: 2.1.4 CentOS was installed on the 1st primary partition of a SATA hdd which is identified as \\.\physicaldrive0 under windows xp. C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM