Re: [vbox-users] USB devices list greyed

2009-02-24 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Michael Thayer michael.tha...@sun.com wrote: Hello Lew and all, Lew Wolfgang wrote: After a lot of fiddling and non-deterministic behavior I isolated the problem to multiple mounting of the  usbfs filesystem. As of VirtualBox 2.1.2 (with a couple of fixes in

Re: [vbox-users] USB devices list greyed

2009-02-23 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Chris G c...@isbd.net wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:01:21PM +0530, Amit k. Saha wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Jens Franik je...@gmx.de wrote: Guten Tag Amit k. Saha, am Montag, 23. Februar 2009 um 06:50 schrieben Sie: I have added a USB

Re: [vbox-users] USB devices list greyed

2009-02-23 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Chris G c...@isbd.net wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:13:33PM +0530, Amit k. Saha wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Chris G c...@isbd.net wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:01:21PM +0530, Amit k. Saha wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Jens

Re: [vbox-users] USB devices list greyed

2009-02-23 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Chris G c...@isbd.net wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:24:24PM +0530, Amit k. Saha wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Chris G c...@isbd.net wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:13:33PM +0530, Amit k. Saha wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Chris G c

[vbox-users] USB devices list greyed

2009-02-22 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hello all, Host OS: Ubuntu 8.10, Guest: OpenSolaris 2008.11 I have added a USB filter (all) for the guest. In my guest, I can see the devices that are connected, but all are greyed out. Any ideas? Best, Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://amitksaha.blogspot.com http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/

Re: [vbox-users] Reclaim lost HD space?

2009-02-20 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:25 PM, joeli...@earthlink.net wrote: Does anyone know how to reclaim lost HD space once you uninstall VB from Vista? I just experimented with VB and ended up losing about 25 gigs of HD space on my Vista partition. Have you deleted the VDI file yet? Its probably

Re: [vbox-users] Debian 5.0 vBoxLinuxAdditions failed

2009-02-16 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Jens Franik je...@gmx.de wrote: Guten Tag Mikkel L. Ellertson, am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 um 16:51 schrieben Sie: Who else is going to be setting up virtual machines? Maybe Users, which want to use Linux for Security and Freedom but, which need to have a

Re: [vbox-users] VMWare feels the heat from Virtualbox, goes LGPL

2009-02-05 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:56 PM, fcassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: http://ostatic.com/blog/vmware-saw-the-threat-releases-open-source-virtualization-client I couldn't help myself and added a bit of advocacy on my comment. :-) Shame on me. I scourged it and read it too ;-) -Amit FC --

[vbox-users] VBox doesn;t work with 'kvm' loaded

2009-02-04 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hello all, I have got the Linux 'kvm' module loaded. When I start VBox I get this message: VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel extension, recompile your kernel and reboot (VERR_VMX_IN_VMX_ROOT_MODE). Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) Component:

Re: [vbox-users] VBox doesn;t work with 'kvm' loaded

2009-02-04 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: Amit, On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Amit k. Saha wrote: I have got the Linux 'kvm' module loaded. When I start VBox I get this message: VirtualBox can't operate in VMX root mode. Please disable the KVM kernel

Re: [vbox-users] VBox doesn;t work with 'kvm' loaded

2009-02-04 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Alexander Eichner alexander.eich...@sun.com wrote: Hi Amit, Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 19:36 +0530 schrieb Amit k. Saha: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: Amit, On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Amit k. Saha wrote

Re: [vbox-users] Bug: multiple vbox GUI instances, WHY?

2009-01-11 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: Question: why is it possible to open several instances of the Virtualbox GUI? What is the purpose?. I often end up clickin on the virtualbox icon without realizing I have acopy already open and end up with 2, 3, five

Re: [vbox-users] Bug: multiple vbox GUI instances, WHY?

2009-01-11 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM, fcassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Amit k. Saha amitsaha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: Question: why is it possible to open several instances of the Virtualbox GUI

Re: [vbox-users] Pausing a virtual machine with VBoxManage

2009-01-05 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hello! On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Andreas Höschler ahoe...@smartsoft.de wrote: Hi all, is it possible to pause a virtual machine by means of a script? I would like to create a cronjob that pauses a virtual machine, copies the vdi file to a backup host and then resumes the virtual

[vbox-users] Anyone running OpenSolaris 2008.05/11?

2008-11-30 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hi all, I am curious to know, if anyone of you are running OpenSolaris 2008.05/11 as a guest for full-time development? Are you happy with the experience? My installation behaves erratically at times, and good at others. I have given it a good 1.5 GB / 4 GB primary memory and a 128 MB video

Re: [vbox-users] Mac OS X Guest on Linux Host

2008-11-27 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Stealth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 November 2008 10:41:19 am Sebastian Schnur wrote: I've heared that some people have done installing Mac OS X on x86 architecture. So I think it´s possible but not really easy. There is a PC hardware (Intel)

Re: [vbox-users] bridgeUP script not working after upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10

2008-10-27 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Larry Riedel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it gives an error saying tunctl: command not found although I installed bridge-utils package correctly. If I do apt-file search tunctl it says uml-utilities: /usr/sbin/tunctl That would be the User Mode Linux utilities.

Re: [vbox-users] Communication betn two Linux VMs?

2008-10-23 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Sangamesh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Sangamesh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: [vbox-users] [Bulk] Re: Communication betn two Linux VMs?

2008-10-23 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Dave Plater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amit k. Saha wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Sangamesh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Sangamesh B [EMAIL

[vbox-users] Virtual Box session directly from GDM

2008-10-22 Thread Amit k. Saha
Nice tip to run Virtual Box session directly from GDM: http://www.quicktweaks.com/2008/10/14/run-your-virtual-os-directly-from-gdm-in-ubuntu/ -Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/ http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/ Skype: amitkumarsaha

Re: [vbox-users] Communication betn two Linux VMs?

2008-10-21 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Sangamesh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sangamesh, On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Sangamesh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI All, I created two 32 bit Linux VMs(Guests) on a 64

Re: [vbox-users] Communication betn two Linux VMs?

2008-10-18 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hi Sangamesh, On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Sangamesh B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI All, I created two 32 bit Linux VMs(Guests) on a 64 bit OS (Host). IP addresses also assigned. You set up NAT on each VM ? But the system is not connected to external network. Is it possible

Re: [vbox-users] Guest Additions do not load automatically in Kubuntu HH 8.04

2008-10-16 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Peter Klaassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op Thursday 16 October 2008 14:36:21 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe the guest additions are not installed. It works automatically for some OS's but I never had that happen in any linux distro as guest. Does it? I am

Re: [vbox-users] (VirtualBox definition)

2008-10-16 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hi Peter, On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Peter Klaassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op Wednesday 15 October 2008 20:40:16 schreef Ignazio Palmisano: Peter Klaassen wrote: Op Wednesday 15 October 2008 19:47:46 schreef Ignazio Palmisano: Have you installed the VirtualBox extensions in the

Re: [vbox-users] 2.02 Windows Guest Screen Resolution? VBoxManage no help

2008-10-03 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:40 PM, David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Listmates, Sorry if this has been asked 100 times, but how do I get a windows guest to see more than 1024x768 in Virtualbox 2.02 (openSuSE 11.0 host). I have tried VBoxManage setextradata global

Re: [vbox-users] NAT Issues

2008-10-03 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I am using VirtualBox 2.0 on a Linux host with Linux/Solaris/Windows machines as guests. I can use NAT to access the Internet from my guests when I am using a 'ppp0' interface on the host for connecting

[vbox-users] 2 NAT-ed guests get the same IP adddress?

2008-10-03 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hi! Does 2 (or all?) the NAT-ed guests get the same IP address? Thanks, Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/ http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/ Skype: amitkumarsaha ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-users] 2 NAT-ed guests get the same IP adddress?

2008-10-03 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Kevin W. Gagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they're NAT then it doesn't matter. As long as the outside doesn't see them it should not present a problem. I was just confirming my observation. Thanks, Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/

Re: [vbox-users] NAT Issues

2008-10-03 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:42 AM, David Larochelle-Pratte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The VirtualBox DHCP server is relaying all DNS requests from the guest to the first DNS server from your internet connection. If your ISP use some special configuration which require the two DNS servers to work,

Re: [vbox-users] Guest additions.

2008-10-01 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Tim Uckun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I go to get the guest additions? The ISO is there in the installation directory of VirtualBox. For eg. on Linux hosts, it is in /usr/share/virtualbox HTH, Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/

[vbox-users] NAT Issues

2008-10-01 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hi! I am using VirtualBox 2.0 on a Linux host with Linux/Solaris/Windows machines as guests. I can use NAT to access the Internet from my guests when I am using a 'ppp0' interface on the host for connecting to the Internet. However, I cannot do the same when using 'eth0' on my host. Any

Re: [vbox-users] How to get networking to work

2008-09-23 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have installed Windows XP onto a vm, but how do I get networking to work? I want WinXP to have access to my host network card. There are various ways you could set this up, and what you need will largely depend on

Re: [vbox-users] Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances?

2008-09-13 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Fernando Cassia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There could be a variety of reasons. For one, if you try to use the existing XML file, then you will run into problems if your Host OS

[vbox-users] Communicating from Host to Guest VM

2008-09-12 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hi! I have enabled NAT on my Linux guest, which has got its IP via DHCP. I can communicate-'ssh', 'ping' to my Linux host. Now, I have a Web server running on the guest, I would like to access it from the host browser. How would I do it? I would also appreciate some understanding regarding how

Re: [vbox-users] Communicating from Host to Guest VM

2008-09-12 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have enabled NAT on my Linux guest, which has got its IP via DHCP. I can communicate-'ssh', 'ping' to my Linux host. Now, I have a Web server running on the guest, I would like to access it from the host browser

Re: [vbox-users] Communicating from Host to Guest VM

2008-09-12 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hi! On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Frank Mehnert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amit, On Friday 12 September 2008, Amit k. Saha wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have enabled NAT on my Linux guest, which has got its IP via DHCP. I can communicate

Re: [vbox-users] User manual 1.6.6 is broken

2008-09-11 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hi Fred, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Frederic ROBERT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ML, The User Manual is broken!!! http://dlc-cdn-rd.sun.com/c1/virtualbox/1.6.6/UserManual.pdf It's broken when i open it. You may try using the Help set that ships with VirtualBox. HTH, Amit --

Re: [vbox-users] 2.0 Rocks!

2008-09-11 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Vladimir Psenicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont agree, Virtualbox 2.0.0 has some critical bugs with 64bit guests, see: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2179 I am facing problems with running Open Solaris based ISOs as guests in a Linux host. I will need to

[vbox-users] Registering VirtualBox appliances

2008-09-11 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hi! I have downloaded a virtual appliance from http://virtualbox.wordpress.com/images. However I am not able to download the register image script : http://virtualbox.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/registerimage-103-is-here/ Any help? Thanks, Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/

[vbox-users] Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances?

2008-09-11 Thread Amit k. Saha
Hi! Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances from http://virtualbox.wordpress.com? I am trying one of the DSL images with VirtualBox 2.0 and this is what I get: VBoxManage registervm /home/amit/Desktop/dsl-4.4.2-x86/Machines/dsl-4.4.2-x86/dsl-4.4.2-x86.xml VirtualBox Command Line

Re: [vbox-users] Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances?

2008-09-11 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Fernando Cassia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances from http

Re: [vbox-users] Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances?

2008-09-11 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Fernando Cassia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If yes, then how do I create a VM using the above two files using VBoxManage? I got my answer- you cannot use a config file meant for OS-1

Re: [vbox-users] Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances?

2008-09-11 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Fernando Cassia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The very concept of Virtual appliance is that you *don't* have to create a new configuration or a new VM which in VBox terms is using

Re: [vbox-users] [ug-bosug] Cannot use 'touchpad' to CLICK on Indiana, Belenix

2008-06-17 Thread Amit k. Saha
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Amit Kumar Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/27/08, Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Amit Kumar Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/27/08, Moinak Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM,