Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 3.0.6 released

2009-09-18 Thread Frank Mehnert
Bruce, On Thursday 17 September 2009, Bruce MacArthur wrote: I have just taken the http://download... link offered above. Because I am running Kubuntu Jaunty as a 32-bit system, I chose the next-to-last (Ubuntu Jaunty x86) option. Next I chose to use KpackageKit. The product downloaded

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 3.0.6 released

2009-09-18 Thread Bruce MacArthur
On Friday 18 September 2009 01:52:48 am Frank Mehnert wrote: Bruce, On Thursday 17 September 2009, Bruce MacArthur wrote: I have just taken the http://download... link offered above. Because I am running Kubuntu Jaunty as a 32-bit system, I chose the next-to- last (Ubuntu Jaunty x86)

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 3.0.6 released

2009-09-18 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Friday 18 September 2009, Bruce MacArthur wrote: I used top to ensure that kpackagekit (and manager) are NOT running. I carefully entered the command sudo dpkg --configure --pending and tapped Enter. Unfortunately, there is NO output -- I simply get another prompt. I'm afraid it is

[vbox-users] Some problems with harddisk controller

2009-09-18 Thread Maciek Kaliszewski
Hi, I've some problems with VBox . Host Debian Lenny - Guest the same . On VBox version 2.2.2 after day or two system was unusable - dmesg showed input/output error . After upgrade to 3.0.6 , a bit better ,dmesg showed bunch of hd errors . I've changed controller form PIIX4 - ICH ,and will see

[vbox-users] accessing guest OS files on Virtualbox through host OS

2009-09-18 Thread Pratik Munot
Hello all, I've installed ubuntu hardy on my machine on which I've again put hardy through virtualbox for some development work. I recently did some alterations to the gdm.conf file on the hardy, which is installed in virtualbox. Because of this, on restarting the ubuntu hardy on virtualbox,

Re: [vbox-users] accessing guest OS files on Virtualbox through host OS

2009-09-18 Thread Maciek Kaliszewski
Pratik Munot wrote: Hello all, I've installed ubuntu hardy on my machine on which I've again put hardy through virtualbox for some development work. I recently did some alterations to the gdm.conf file on the hardy, which is installed in virtualbox. Because of this, on restarting the ubuntu

Re: [vbox-users] accessing guest OS files on Virtualbox through host OS

2009-09-18 Thread Pratik Munot
Hello, thanks a lot! That solves my problem...!!! On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Maciek Kaliszewski maciek.kaliszew...@gmail.com wrote: Pratik Munot wrote: Hello all, I've installed ubuntu hardy on my machine on which I've again put hardy through virtualbox for some development work. I

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 3.0.6 released

2009-09-18 Thread Bruce MacArthur
On Friday 18 September 2009 06:02:51 am Bruce MacArthur wrote: Big Snip Package 'virtualbox-3.0' is not installed and no info is available. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg ==contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. Big Snip In spite of

Re: [vbox-users] Gentoo host can't see my DVD drives

2009-09-18 Thread Michael Thayer
Hello Peter, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'm new to VBox, though not to Linux, and when I install onto my AMD64 box the host apparently can't find an optical drive. On the Details tab, before I start installing a guest OS, the CD/DVD drop-down box contains only /dev/fd0. This happens regardless