Re: [vbox-users] any way to boot from a USB stick image?

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 22:39 +, Dick Davies wrote: > I wondered if I have any way of booting a Virtualbox guest from USB, No. Search the archives for the details. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ vbox-use

Re: [vbox-users] virtualbox: Install from system restore DVDs (HP Pavilion)

On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 12:26 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > What if I wipe out my linux box, I wonder if you have to do that even. > reinstall on original physical > hardware on a limited size partition. Will I be able to start virtual > box from this partition ? Yes. > In the end linux sh

Re: [vbox-users] sharing a virtual hard disk between running virtual machines

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 15:51 +0200, Maciek Kaliszewski wrote: > Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > > Hiper-complicated machine? To be clear, my emphasis on your nomenclature here was on that hiper-complicated machines (supercomputers) are not so complicated in that they are just farms o

Re: [vbox-users] sharing a virtual hard disk between running virtual machines

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 14:55 +0200, Maciek Kaliszewski wrote: > > I don't want to dispute terminology . Everyone has its own :-) Well, indeed, it would seem that the general definition of distributed filesystem == network filesystem. I guess (and I am admittedly biased) I just feel like the ba

Re: [vbox-users] sharing a virtual hard disk between running virtual machines

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:20 +0200, Maciek Kaliszewski wrote: > > Hi, > I've never run any distributed filesystem other than NFS , > coda NFS is not a distributed filesystem. I don't think coda is either. > You don't want to attach one virtual disk image to two simultaneously > running v

Re: [vbox-users] sharing a virtual hard disk between running virtual machines

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 14:21 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > Is subj. possible? Yes. > I want to use VBox to test a distributed filesystem, but it won't let me > launch two virtual machines sharing the same virtual volume (data > volume, not root; root is separate). Is there a way around this issu

[vbox-users] avahi-daemon in guest kills NAT adapter

Well, I have just spent a long time debugging this, but I have come to the conclusion that the avahi-daemon in a Linux guest (Ubuntu Jaunty) on a Linux host (Ubuntu Jaunty) pooches the NAT adaptor in VB 3.0.6. As soon as the avahi-daemon initscript is run in the guest, all networking on the NAT ad

Re: [vbox-users] Starting a guest OS from an USB-stick

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 14:30 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote: > Hi, Hi, > I have Ubuntu installed on an USB-stick as a bootable device. Heh. This again. > I wanted to install it as guest in VirtualBox. But it doesn't give me > the option of booting from an USB-stick, which all modern BIOS's (and >

[vbox-users] console output can cripple VM management

Hi, I have found that if I start a Linux VM and it receives a copious amount of console output, the UI will become unresponsive. Even the "VBoxManage control" commands hang forever. There is usually nothing that can be done except resetting the VM. What is interesting is that while the UI/manag

Re: [vbox-users] NAT dns server not responding

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 07:50 +0400, vasily levchenko wrote: > Hello Brian, Hi, > I think it's more or less related to configuring NAT's DHCP, Indeed. Exactly. > which > currently have several parameters to impact on (TFTP/dnsproxy(on/off) > and guest network attributes), Cool. Are these exp

Re: [vbox-users] NAT dns server not responding

On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 15:57 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > Understood. And yes, the NAT stack is not IPv6-capable. Pity. In the same regard as being able to choose between proxying DNS or not, how about an option to allow the user to provide an IPv4 address for VB to pass on to the guest? That

Re: [vbox-users] NAT dns server not responding

On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 15:07 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > Ah right, I forgot that. Did you read chapter 9.14 of the user manual? Probably not. Not specifically for this issue. > I think by enabling the DNSProxy the old behavior (well, not exactly > but similar) can be restored. But my issue

Re: [vbox-users] NAT dns server not responding

On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 14:02 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > > That must be new behaviour on 2.2.2 then. > > Hmm, but which DNS server should be passed if /etc/resolv.conf > of the host is empty? Wasn't that the case

Re: [vbox-users] NAT dns server not responding

On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 08:25 -0300, Antonio Augusto (Mancha) wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > Just tested it on a 2.2.2 install on a Ubuntu host, with Windows XP as > a Guest configure to use NAT. > VBox _DOES_ pass the dns server of the host to the client. If > /etc/resolv.conf on the host is empty the g

Re: [vbox-users] NAT dns server not responding

On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 07:55 -0300, Antonio Augusto (Mancha) wrote: > Brian, for what i get the guest receives the DNS address of the host. To clarify, the guest receives the NAT address of the VB Host as it's DNS server. It DOES NOT receive the Host's DNS server as it's own DNS server. That is,

Re: [vbox-users] NAT dns server not responding

On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 09:46 +0400, vasily levchenko wrote: > Hello Brian, Hi Vasily, > IPv6 isn't supported with current NAT implementation, I'm not trying to use IPv6 through the NAT connection. That is, the guest is using IPv4. The only place where IPv6 is being used is between the Host and

Re: [vbox-users] NAT dns server not responding

On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 14:50 +0200, Johannes Kastl wrote: > > This is an IPv6-Adress, right? Yes. The Host resolves addresses to an IPv6 nameserver. > No IPv4-DNS-Server given? What do you mean "No ... given?"? No IPv4 resolver given to the Guest from VB? Sure. VB gave the Guest it's end of

[vbox-users] NAT dns server not responding

I'm using 2.1.4 on a Linux host with a Windows XP guest and am finding that DNS lookup requests to the NAT provided DNS server are all failing. From a windows prompt: C:\Documents and Settings\Brian>nslookup www.sun.com DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds *** Can't find server name f

Re: [vbox-users] Why is CPU utilization so high

On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 19:07 +0200, Angel Tsankov wrote: > Hi, > > Why does a virtual machine consume all available CPU time even when the > guest doesn't do anything CPU-intensive? See if bug 1299 helps you. It helped me tremendously. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 20:42 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > It shows each core actually. Sheesh. Yes, they might technically be "cores" but from the POV of top they are CPUs, but that doesn't really matter. My point stands regardless of what name you want to give them. > True, but IMO that's not

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 20:34 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Brian, > > On Monday 20 April 2009, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > When is one CPU pegged at 100%? > > > > Using top, I can only see the "%" of CPU being used as a total of both > > cores. Vir

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 20:06 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 20 April 2009, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > Using top, I can only see the "%" of CPU being used as a total of both > > cores. > > Hit the '1' key to see per CPU stats. Sure, but that only sho

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

[ sorry 'bout the latency. this got buried, unfortunately. ] On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 22:23 +0100, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi Frank, > On Sunday 08 March 2009, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > > * Check the disk settings in the guest: Does the guest drive the > >

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] OT: I hope Sun employees revolt

Hrm. You don't seem to have a grasp on how things work in the real world... On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 14:28 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > Please, revolt, write to that ponytail CEO of yours... Revolt? The employees have no say in this matter. The duty of the executive in a public company is t

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 20:37 +0100, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Brian, Hi Frank, > Please could you be a bit more specific: Most definitely. > * I assume that you are running Windows XP / 32, is that right? Indeed. > * Do you have VT-x / AMD-V enabled for that VM or not? Yessir. > * Which virt

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 15:52 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > One thought I had is to copy the known good to the raw partition and > see if that works for you. Well, I could I suppose once I have the partition installation in a virtual disk. Ultimately, I can't trash that installation though, as i

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

FWIW, I have another installation of VBox with WinXP as a guest on another machine, albeit the disk is a virtual one, not on a real partition and it run beautifully. When the XP guest is idle and doing nothing, there is barely a blip on my host's CPU. I just wish this other installation I have on

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 17:21 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > [ Comments below, in line ] > > On Friday 06 March 2009 at 4:50 pm, Pablo Sanchez penned > about "Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native" > > > Have you `strace' the VirtualBox process? > > Hi Brian, > > I `strace'd my Vir

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 16:50 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > Initially, I did. I should have asked for both. Yeah, I was a message behind in the thread. > ISTR? (I seem to recall?) Yes. > My WinXP Guest does not consume 100% of CPU. Currently it's chewing > about 5-11% of the CPU. I'm jealo

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 15:59 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > In my experience, performance is throttled by CPU or Disk. This is > why I asked to see Brian's CPU metrics. :) Pretty sure you asked for disk, not CPU. In any case I can assure you that a virtualbox winxp guest (ISTR that even a linu

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 12:05 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > [ Comments below, in line ] Ditto, as always and as should be. :-) > Hi Brian, Hi Pablo, > Try the same test and while simultaneously running `sar -d 3 1000' I used 5 second intervals rather than 3, but the message is still the same:

[vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

I have a WinXP guest on a Linux host and as I have suspected for a long time, the throughput of the disk in WinXP is much slower than native disk performance. To the tune of only 25%. The WinXP installation is on a real partition and when I boot that WinXP natively on the hardware I get about 20M

Re: [vbox-users] GRE over NAT

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:28 -0500, Graham Campbell wrote: > > I'm puzzled. Don't all VPN's run over IP? That's probably too a too broad and sweeping statement to possibly be true, but not really important to this discussion because GRE is a protocol that runs on IP, yes, like UDP and TCP (and ICM

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.4 released!

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 08:16 +0100, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi, > > today Sun released VirtualBox 2.1.4 which is a maintenance release. > See the ChangeLog > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog Oops… Trac detected an internal error: ... Python Traceback Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: [vbox-users] best method for virus scanning

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 15:13 +0100, Fabien Meghazi wrote: > > Heck, I don't know why everyone isn't just using a flat (i.e. dd'able) > > image. :-) > > That would mean fixed sized image I guess. Better for performance, but > I guess a lot of people need the growable feature. Indeed. It has limit

Re: [vbox-users] best method for virus scanning

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 09:11 +, Peter Ford wrote: > > I'm currently working on improving my original solution to the problem of > viewing VDIs outside of VBox - I ran a Vbox using a lightweight Linux distro > on > a live disk image (a Damn Small Linux ISO works quite well) and then mounting >

[vbox-users] mouse integration not working with 2.1.2

I have a WindowsXP guest running in a VirtualBox 2.1.2 system on a Linux host. I have the guest additions installed. The icon says 2.1.2r41885 when I hover over it. The problem is that capture is not working. I have to click in the guest window to give the guest focus and I have use the CTRL ke

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.2 released!

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 13:03 +, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > I think current changelog architecture is very good, because some > fixes might be for more than one OS. > > It already has: > "Linux hosts: text" Yes, I did notice that after posting. However it also has (for example): Networki

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.2 released!

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 09:17 +0100, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi, > > today Sun released VirtualBox 2.1.2 which is a maintenance release. Excellent. > See the ChangeLog > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog Would it be possible in the future to group changes together as "Common", "Windows

Re: [vbox-users] disconnect gui from running machine?

On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 07:40 -0600, Sherwood McGowan wrote: > I think maybe you might want to just use VBoxHeadless to start the vm and use > the RDP connection Indeed, if I knew ahead of time that I was going to want to disconnect, that would have been my MO. But now that I have started with the

[vbox-users] disconnect gui from running machine?

Using virtualbox 2.0.6, I've started a virtual machine using the standard GUI tool. I can see options in the menu to pause it, save it, quit it, etc. I'm wondering if there is any way to simply disconnect the GUI from the running machine so that I can exit the GUI, leave the VM running and then c

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.0 released!

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 14:13 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > On Wednesday 17 December 2008 at 1:54 pm, Brian J. Murrell penned > about "Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.0 released!" > > > > > Not that I am necessarily saying this is the case with VirtualBox,

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.0 released!

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:45 -0800, Grant McWilliams wrote: > I'm glad to see the new feature set but I'm mainly wondering about > stability. I stopped using VBox 2.x in production environments because > there were strange issues. I went back to 1.6.6 which had everything I > needed and things were

Re: [vbox-users] High CPU w/2.0.6

On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 18:15 -0800, NoOp wrote: > > Unfortunately this Vbox takes the CPU to 80-95% CPU usage (even when > idle), making the VM practically unusable. Fans fire on for all time > that the VM is active, and the only time they turn off is when I 'Pause' > the VM. FWIW, this has been m

Re: [vbox-users] conflict on kvm package

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 21:40 +0100, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > Well, we are talking about installing packages here. Yes. > To install > VirtualBox one has to be root, to install kvm one has to be root > as well. No argument. > /etc/init.d/kvm is loading the proper kernel modules > automatically

Re: [vbox-users] conflict on kvm package

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 19:50 +, Armindo Silva wrote: > > Yes they can, you just need to disable kvm to load on boot. Which you do how on a stock Ubuntu system (no cheating and going and manually removing files, etc. after installing the kvm package)? And once disabled, how do I run kvm when

Re: [vbox-users] conflict on kvm package

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 20:41 +0100, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > Exactly. > > And regarding the conflict to the kvm package: The kvm modules > must not be loaded but this can be achieved in different ways. On a stock Ubuntu installation? How would you propose that the modules are prevented from load

Re: [vbox-users] conflict on kvm package

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 19:16 +, Armindo Silva wrote: > > No they are not! They just can be run at the same time Wrong. The way the kvm package is installed on Ubuntu, they cannot be installed at the same time because when the machine boots, the KVM initscript makes running VirtualBox impossi

Re: [vbox-users] conflict on kvm package

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 14:04 -0500, Stealth wrote: > > What are you talking about? You install VirtualBox as Root Or your sysad does. Because he has root and authority to install software on the users' machines. Regular users may not. Regardless, none of this permissions stuff addresses the ver

Re: [vbox-users] conflict on kvm package

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 13:45 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2008 at 1:35 pm, Brian J. Murrell penned > about "Re: [vbox-users] conflict on kvm package" > > > Oh. So you have root on your machine. Not everyone does. > > ... but a lot do ...

Re: [vbox-users] conflict on kvm package

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 18:33 +, Armindo Silva wrote: > Hi! Hi. > I think that's a very bad idea! That way you would be imposing to the > user which virtualization technology to us. Sure. Because they are mutually exclusive. > I have both installed and when I want to switch between them the

[vbox-users] Failed to construct 'pcnet'/0! VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

Just upgraded from 2.04 to 2.06 on Ubuntu Intrepid. I tried to start a "Saved" (prior to upgrade) machine and the log reports: 00:00:39.815 PDM: Failed to construct 'pcnet'/0! VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND (-102) - File not found. 00:00:39.815 ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) aIID={e3c6d4a1

[vbox-users] conflict on kvm package

Why not have the virtualbox binary package for ubuntu conflict with the package "kvm" so that one does not end up with the kvm kernel modules loaded and virtualbox complaining about it? b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___

Re: [vbox-users] vmware

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 15:53 -0500, Stealth wrote: > VirtualBox says you can, but I tried it with four images and none of > them would boot. They all tried to boot but just hung very early. > Windows and Linux. They work for me. Windows only after I go through the rigmarole however of making sur

Re: [vbox-users] vmware

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 21:44 +0100, mattias wrote: > i have a vmware image > can i convert or use it with virtualbox? You can just use it. VirtualBox will read VMware .vmdk files. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [vbox-users] How to enable USB support in Ubuntu 8.10 Host

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 22:18 +0100, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > They argue that there was 1 year time to fix all applications using the > old interface. We are aware of that problem but we still had no time to > change our code. Ahhh. I had wondered if this was a case of using a deprecated interface

Re: [vbox-users] How to enable USB support in Ubuntu 8.10 Host

On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 16:29 +0100, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Mundi wrote: > > How should I enable USB support in Ubuntu 8.10 host with VirtualBox? > > Have a look at the updated FAQ at > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ USB on Ubuntu/Intrepid: Finally, the Ub

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 13:55 -0400, Paul Roberts wrote: > Can you use shared folders from the host? Assign the shared storage > to the host and then use the "Shared Folder" feature of VirtualBox? > You can find this on Page 61 of the manual. I'm assuming you could > mount the shared "folder" on m

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 09:52 -0700, Larry Riedel wrote: > > What I have done is create vmdks which point to a > block device (say /dev/sda2) for the underlying data, Ahhh. This is an interesting twist. And now that you mention it, I think is what I did with VMware Server. But yes, I can now see

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 09:05 -0700, Larry Riedel wrote: > > The capability is described in section 9.9 of the User > Manual. Have you actually tried doing this? I just did. I have a physical partition on my physical disk described in the vmdk file ~/.VirtualBox/Machines/Windows\ XP\ on\ partiti

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 15:38 +, Armindo Silva wrote: > Hi! > > What you want is to have a place where 2 guest can read and write at > the same time, right? No. Please read the whole thread. We want a block device that two guests can read and write to at the same time (and please, no more war

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 11:07 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > The problem with VirtualBox is you can't have two VM's mount the same > VDI. How does it prevent it? Is it as I described in my last message in the GUI? Does using a raw disk really prevent the GUI from preventing one from assigning th

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 07:46 -0700, Larry Riedel wrote: > > A shared filesystem and a shared disk are two > different things. Absolutely. > The title of this thread is "shared > disk", "not shared filesystem". Right. I think the only reason filesystem came into it was because somebody muddied t

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:49 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > I'm currently converting my .vdi's to a .vmdk: Ahhh. So your assertion is then that the problem is with VDIs only and not a general problem of VirtualBox, and if you use VMDKs instead it's achievable? Can you report back on your succes

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 00:08 +, Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: > > As far as I remember you can share a single vdi between two or more vm's > as long as the vdi is immutable. To enable this you'll need to use the > command line. > > Unregister the vdi first: > > VBoxManage unregisterimage disk ~

[vbox-users] WARNING: strange, CPU MTRRs all blank?

I've gotten a strange new warning using a 2.6.27 guest linux kernel on VirtualBox 2.0.2: [0.00] last_pfn = 0xfff0 max_arch_pfn = 0x10 [0.00] [ cut here ] [0.00] WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.27/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:1500 mtrr_tr

[vbox-users] WARNING: strange, CPU MTRRs all blank?

I've gotten a strange new warning using a 2.6.27 guest linux kernel on VirtualBox 2.0.2: [0.00] last_pfn = 0xfff0 max_arch_pfn = 0x10 [0.00] [ cut here ] [0.00] WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.27/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:1500 mtrr_tr

Re: [vbox-users] md5sum of VBoxGuestAdditions.iso on 1.6.4 please

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 09:00 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > Yes, this is the correct checksum of the 1.6.4 additions .iso. ~sigh~ Yeah, that's what I've got here too. So much for hopes and dreams. :-) Thanx to all who responded. b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mes

[vbox-users] md5sum of VBoxGuestAdditions.iso on 1.6.4 please

If anyone has successfully installed VirtualBox 1.6.4 including Guest Additions on Windows XP, could I ask you to provide the md5sum of your /usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso file. Installing Guest Additions is giving me an error (trac ticket 1923: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1923

[vbox-users] ERROR (e0000101): Unknown error! installing guest additions

I tried to install guest additions for my now 1.6.4 installation and I get the following at the tail of the install.log: ... Extract: C:\WINDOWS\system32\VBoxHook.dll... 100% Installing Drivers... Output folder: C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox Guest Additions Installing driver ... HardwareID:

Re: [vbox-users] sniffing (tcpdump) the NAT interface on the host

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 14:04 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > Looking at the source, it appears two error conditions are reporting the > exact identical error: > > 458 /* > 459* Query the network port interface. > 460*/ > 461 pData->p

Re: [vbox-users] sniffing (tcpdump) the NAT interface on the host

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:49 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > Startup of the guest fails though: > > 00:00:05.810 ERROR [COM]: aRC=NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005) > aIID={d5a1cbda-f5d7-4824-9afe-d640c94c7dcf} aComponent={Console} > aText={Configuration error: the above de

Re: [vbox-users] sniffing (tcpdump) the NAT interface on the host

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:30 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > I'm getting the impression from: > > $ VBoxManage modifyvm 7f10ffca-6262-4de7-ebb3-d90a55c4fc2e -nictrace1 on > VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.2 > (C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc

Re: [vbox-users] sniffing (tcpdump) the NAT interface on the host

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:26 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Brian, Hi Frank. > I assume that your VM has a NAT interface at the first NIC. Otherwise > replace 1 by the instance number of the NIC: > > VBoxManage modifyvm VM_NAME -nictrace1 on > VBoxManage modifyvm VM_NAME -nictracefile1 /home/f

[vbox-users] sniffing (tcpdump) the NAT interface on the host

I have a guest set up to use NAT networking on virtualbox 1.6.2. I'm wondering if there is any way I can sniff (i.e. tcpdump) the traffic on that interface on host before it gets to the host's interface (and conversely after it's been received at the host on it's way to the guest for inbound traff

[vbox-users] can't create bugtracker tickets

I'm logged in to http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker but when I click the "Create a new bug ticket" link I get an error: TICKET_CREATE privileges are required to perform this operation b. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part _

Re: [vbox-users] video being corrupted by access to shared folders

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 13:30 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > Ahhh. Didn't know that was alive. > Not really ... How does it get fixed then, if I'm not running 1.6.2 and pushing the issue? > at least you'd be up and running This is nothing mission critica

Re: [vbox-users] video being corrupted by access to shared folders

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:22 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > Have you tried going back to 1.5.6? AFIAK, the 1.5.6 release is no longer available for download now that everything has moved to the Sun Download Center. > If you have sufficient spare > disk, I'd copy everything before

Re: [vbox-users] Windows XP guest not seeing shared folders

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 17:33 -0700, NoOp wrote: > > Sorry to tag onto Brian's WinXP guest issue, but since the 1.6.2 upgrade > from 1.5.6 I have the same issue as Brian on a Win2KPro guest. Previous > 1.5.6 had no problems with the shares. > > Guest = Win2KPro was previously under 1.5.6 > Host(s)

Re: [vbox-users] Windows XP guest not seeing shared folders

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 09:44 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:19 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > please install the 1.6.2 Guest Additions over the existing ones again > > and reboot. > > I had already done that. It didn

Re: [vbox-users] Windows XP guest not seeing shared folders

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:19 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > please install the 1.6.2 Guest Additions over the existing ones again > and reboot. I had already done that. It didn't help. I will do it again just for kicks and giggles. Uh oh. This time when it was coming back up, I got

Re: [vbox-users] Windows XP guest not seeing shared folders

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 09:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Brian, Hi, > Are you administrator in the VM? AFAIK I am. I'm not much of a Windows guy so I can't be sure. I've never run into permission problems with anything I have tried to do. How can I determine for sure? > Did you do an

[vbox-users] Windows XP guest not seeing shared folders

I have a Windows XP guest which I have set up a "Machine Folders" shared folder. The shared mapping is: brian /home/brian Full When I hover over the shared folders icon on the statusbar I see: \\vboxsvr\brian /home/brian However I can't see it in the Entire Network->VirtualBox Sh

Re: [vbox-users] haning on start on hardy

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 17:27 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > Oh! I missed that. Could you do a full stracd with > > strace -f -o ~/log -s128 VirtualBox Not necessary now. :-) > Make sure that no VBoxSVC processes running before you start. That was the key. Once I killed that, everything sta

Re: [vbox-users] haning on start on hardy

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 17:14 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Friday 23 May 2008, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:53 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > > Any hardware acceleration active? > > > > Such as? Do you mean overclocking, etc.? None of t

Re: [vbox-users] haning on start on hardy

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:53 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > Any hardware acceleration active? Such as? Do you mean overclocking, etc.? None of that. > KVM active > on the host? I don't believe so. > Unload the kernel module. lsmod | grep kvm returns nothing. Here's my module stack: Module

Re: [vbox-users] haning on start on hardy

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:10 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Brian, Hi Frank, > please could you open a bug report and attach the VBox.log file? Given that this hang is simply trying to start the main VirtulBox process (i.e. not a VM), which VBox.log file is relevant? > Does this occur every time?

[vbox-users] haning on start on hardy

VirtualBox (1.5.6-28266_Ubuntu_gutsy) seems to be hanging on startup on my Hardy machine. The last few lines of strace say: [pid 30625] futex(0x833d430, 0x81 /* FUTEX_??? */, 1) = 0 [pid 30625] poll([{fd=7, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT, revents=POLLOUT}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1) = 1 [pid 30625] s

Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 08:38 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > It seems the 1.6.0 release is not on par with the quality of previous > releases. Seems I got burned despite my mantra of never trusting a version with a version number starting or ending with zero. :-/ I even thought of that mantra

Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image on Mac

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 07:45 -0400, Joe B wrote: > This could be helpful, not sure why, but I put up 1.6, my winxp worked, some > time later, I would get that same immediate crash. I made no change to the > winxp environment -- nothing between runs. I tried a few things, then went > back to 1.5x,

Re: [vbox-users] Autostart a vm

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 16:17 -0400, Conrad Lawes wrote: > Can VB be configured to autostart one of more VMs upon the host > startup? My VB host is running Ubuntu 7.10. > Also, is it possible to stagger the startup of multiple VMs?I'm > seeing high CPU utilization of the host when a vm starts s

Re: [vbox-users] Linux hosts: tickless kernel, hanging host, timing problems

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 10:25 +0100, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Edit /etc/init.d/vboxdrv and look for the line which contains > 'modprobe ...'. The location of this line depends on the package you > installed. Right behind the name of the module ($modname or something > like this), add > > force_async

Re: [vbox-users] Split VDI in 2GB files

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 13:11 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > Have you submitted RFE's for each? If not, it's the only way to get > them up for review. Well, my most pressing issue is VBox 1.5.6 consuming all of a CPU, in apparently constantly communicating with the virtualbox driver on the host.

Re: [vbox-users] Split VDI in 2GB files

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 10:03 -0700, JD wrote: > I think a member of the LVM team at any distro could > probably take the concatenation driver portion out of > LVM and port it into the VBOX engine. But why would they? This is not really their itch is it? > But alas, if vbox > team is going to obvi

Re: [vbox-users] Split VDI in 2GB files

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 08:29 -0700, JD wrote: > If raid controllers (AND LVM) can concatenate multiple > drives or partitions into a logical drive, i don't see > why the vbox engine could not do the same - present a > drive to the guest OS which is a logical drive made up > of a collection of vdi dr

Re: [vbox-users] Extracting a vdi's filesystem's image

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 15:30 -0700, JD wrote: > Will try... > Don't know if the drive will be bootable :) Doesn't need to be. Boot a LiveCD if you have nothing else, then just DD from the source disk to the destination. b. ___ vbox-users mailing lis

Re: [vbox-users] Extracting a vdi's filesystem's image

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 12:10 -0700, JD wrote: > Is there a way to transfer the bootable filesystem > image in the VDI file to a hard drive partition so > that one can boot directly that drive? > I mean if the VDI is a linux bootable image under > vbox, is it possible to extract the linux image > its

Re: [vbox-users] multiple real interfaces and bridging

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 14:34 +0100, Michael Thayer wrote: > > If you have some experience with networking you could set up routing to > connect your VM to the host network. I could, but unless I could export my routing (and by that of course I mean if the host network will accept my routing export

Re: [vbox-users] multiple real interfaces and bridging

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 08:34 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2008 at 7:52 am, Brian J. Murrell penned > > So VirtualBox with wireless is quite limited in networking options. > ^^ > > Just to be clear, it's not VirtualBox, it's a limit

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