Re: [vbox-users] Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-07 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Sunday 07 March 2010, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 06 March 2010, NoOp wrote: > > 1. Is there an annouced time-frame for this? Or will the list just > > suddenly fail to resolve overnight? > > My intension was to wait for a bit until everyone read the an

Re: [vbox-users] Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-07 Thread Frank Mehnert
sts are an example). Yes, I will add a note to the official website. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels Vorsitz

Re: [vbox-users] Fw: Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
ble and this wouldn't make sense. Adding every post to the mailing list would make this a huge-traffic mailing list with (which isn't intended either). Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Am

Re: [vbox-users] Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Thursday 04 March 2010, John wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > we've decided to close the vbox-users mailing list as the traffic is > > very low and the VBox forums at http://forums.virtualbox.org/ are a > > better place to ask re

Re: [vbox-users] virtual-box - memory ballooning + open source and puel versions

2010-03-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
capable building this under microsoft windows? All parts necessary for Memory ballooning will be open source. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsfü

[vbox-users] Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
x-dev mailing list will remain. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin H

Re: [vbox-users] What was happened with the VirtualBox repository?

2010-03-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
ry to browse the URL you will found out that the repository is still there. You might want to try again. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Tho

Re: [vbox-users] hardware performance counters?

2010-02-26 Thread Frank Mehnert
under certain circumstances (NMI at the wrong time...). Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels Vorsitzend

Re: [vbox-users] hardware performance counters?

2010-02-26 Thread Frank Mehnert
o work fine. Should I ignore these messages? If you are using the PUEL version from our website then the script /etc/init.d/vboxdrv does exactly this and you can ignore the message. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 855

Re: [vbox-users] Guest Additions Fails to Install in Mandriva Cooker.

2010-02-23 Thread Frank Mehnert
ut of /var/log/vboxadd-install.log is here: > > http://paste2.org/p/679565 > > Any suggstions? Actually you are trying to install the VBox 3.1.2 guest additions. Try the 3.1.4 additions, they should install fine as the issue was solved there. Kind regards, Frank -- D

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1.4 released

2010-02-12 Thread Frank Mehnert
://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.1.4/ We would like to thank all our Beta testers for their valuable feedback! Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1.4 Beta 2 released

2010-02-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
lp! Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring signature.asc Description:

Re: [vbox-users] VBoxManage storageattach

2010-02-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
Storage Controller Name (1):Floppy Controller > > Storage Controller Type (1):I82078 > > Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0 > > Storage Controller Max Port Count (1): 1 > > Storage Controller Port Count (1): 1 Note the controller

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1.4 Beta 1 released

2010-01-28 Thread Frank Mehnert
Additions: fixed uninstallation issues on 64-bit guests * Windows Additions: fixed some sysprep execution issues * X.Org Additions: never reject the saved video mode as invalid (bug #5731) * XFree86 Additions: accept video mode hints for the initial mode again Thanks for your help! Frank -- Dr.-Ing.

Re: [vbox-users] Best practice for samba shares

2010-01-27 Thread Frank Mehnert
rely required! :o) Right. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring sig

Re: [vbox-users] Best practice for samba shares

2010-01-26 Thread Frank Mehnert
samba shares over network but use a host-only network device in that case. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels

Re: [vbox-users] frustrations w/ virtualbox, windows 7 guest and vpn on ubuntu

2010-01-15 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Friday 15 January 2010, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > But it currently cannot be done via the GUI eh? Can the network > adapter be changed via CLI? Just right-click the network icon in the VM window. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystem

Re: [vbox-users] vbox vs vmware (performance test with w2k8 guest)

2010-01-07 Thread Frank Mehnert
s_vmware.html > http://tobi.oetiker.ch/test/virtualbox_vs_vmware.png Well, what exactly is "this computer" and "new_boot"? Could you give a few words about your host hardware? Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnen

Re: [vbox-users] How to enable sound on ubuntu machine

2010-01-07 Thread Frank Mehnert
gtk, make sure to install alsaplayer-alsa as well). Then try to play some audio file using the alsaplayer. Use the mixer applet or alsamixer (from terminal) to set the volume of the mixer. Make sure that the volume of your host mixer is set to a sane value as well. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-In

Re: [vbox-users] How to enable sound on ubuntu machine

2010-01-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
hat audio input is currently not implemented for Mac OS X hosts but audio output should work. What is the specific problem with the guest: Was the guest able to detect the audio device, is there a mixer in the guest? Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun

Re: [vbox-users] The "New version available" message

2010-01-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
_ > vbox-users mailing list > vbox-users@virtualbox.org > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Gesc

Re: [vbox-users] Change needed for 2.6.33 and VirtualBox 3.1.2

2009-12-29 Thread Frank Mehnert
nd here: http://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/25591 The key change is to enclose the #include by ``#ifndef AUTOCONF_INCLUDED'' / ``#endif'' as the Linux kernel Makefile does -include generated/autoconf.h. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellscha

Re: [vbox-users] Update failed, Msg: Machine still running

2009-12-17 Thread Frank Mehnert
r code (1) Make sure you terminate the GUI. Then wait for 10 seconds and check if VBoxSVC is still running. In that case, kill that process. Then try to install 3.1.2 again. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Hei

Re: [vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1.2 released

2009-12-17 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Jens Franik wrote: > Frank Mehnert schrieb: > > today Sun released VirtualBox 3.1.2 > > How is the way into the Debian Repository? This works now. As written in the message, the upload was not yet complete but it is now. Kind regards, Frank --

Re: [vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1.2 released

2009-12-17 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Rehan wrote: > You should check with the virtualbox maintainer for debian. No, he refers to the debian package repository on virtualbox.org. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchh

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1.2 released

2009-12-17 Thread Frank Mehnert
://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.1.2/ Upload of the Linux packages is in progress, it will take some time until every package is in place. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028

Re: [vbox-users] How to upgrade with rpm from 3.1 beta to 3.1?

2009-12-03 Thread Frank Mehnert
ly updated to 3.1.0 which is not intended behavior, because some users might prefer to keep the 3.0.12 package for some time. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäft

Re: [vbox-users] RPM for VirtualBox-3.1 will confli ct with older versions of VirtualBox

2009-12-02 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > Liang, > > > > On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Liang Suilong wrote: > > > I update to VirtualBox-3.1 from VirtualBox yum repo. After downloading > > > the p

Re: [vbox-users] RPM for VirtualBox-3.1 will confli ct with older versions of VirtualBox

2009-12-01 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Liang, > > On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Liang Suilong wrote: > > I update to VirtualBox-3.1 from VirtualBox yum repo. After downloading > > the package and starting to setup, yum shows an error. all of files in > > V

Re: [vbox-users] Unable to upgrade 3.0.12 to 3.1 on Ubuntu 9.1

2009-12-01 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Jesse Palser wrote: > If I unintall the old version > will I have to reinstall my guest OS (XP) ??? No! Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Münche

Re: [vbox-users] Unable to upgrade 3.0.12 to 3.1 on Ubuntu 9.1

2009-12-01 Thread Frank Mehnert
ow to upgrade VirtualBox to 3.1 version? Uninstall the old version, then install 3.1.0. Your VMs will not be harmed. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Gesch

Re: [vbox-users] RPM for VirtualBox-3.1 will conflic t with older versions

2009-12-01 Thread Frank Mehnert
467_openSUSE112-1.x86_64.rpm Never do this! Uninstall the old VirtualBox package first! Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfg

Re: [vbox-users] RPM for VirtualBox-3.1 will confli ct with older versions of VirtualBox

2009-11-30 Thread Frank Mehnert
dule. And this will not change as the kvm_intel and kvm_amd modules enable the VT-x resp. AMD-V mode during module initalization. This is a bug in the Linux module (or the Linux distribution which loads these modules by default). Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: S

Re: [vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1 released

2009-11-30 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Derek wrote: > On 11/30/2009 11:34 PM, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > * Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) > > Is this feature useful for installing mac os on the non-mac host? Currently not. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Fran

Re: [vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1 released

2009-11-30 Thread Frank Mehnert
But I don't see a general restriction why this software shouldn't work on VirtualBox without VT-x, just try it out. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161

Re: [vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1 released

2009-11-30 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Monday 30 November 2009, Frank Mehnert wrote: > Today Sun released VirtualBox 3.1, a major update introducing the > following major new features: A follow-up for users of our .rpm repository: The .rpm packages were renamed to VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.x. The result is that a simple 'yum

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1 released

2009-11-30 Thread Frank Mehnert
opic.php?f=15&t=25239 Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates:

Re: [vbox-users] --biossystemtimeoffset doesn't like negative numbers

2009-11-26 Thread Frank Mehnert
r. For instance, for setting -1000 you have to use VBoxManage modifyvm VM_NAME --biossystemtimeoffset 0xfc18 When using the fixed version of VBox, you have to use -1000 again as it wouldn't accept that big positive number anymore. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehner

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1 Beta 3 released

2009-11-25 Thread Frank Mehnert
angeLog in the 3.1 Beta 1 announcement http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=24458 for a more complete list of all changes since version 3.0.12. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heims

Re: [vbox-users] openSuSE 11.2 & vbox 3.1.2 Strange drv Compile

2009-11-25 Thread Frank Mehnert
ns it uses. thanks for the hint! It wasn't obvious to me where the message comes from. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Sc

Re: [vbox-users] openSuSE 11.2 & vbox 3.1.2 Strange drv Compile Msg: WARNING: -e needs -E or -F2

2009-11-24 Thread Frank Mehnert
x-install.log file? Thanks, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring signature

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 2 released

2009-11-20 Thread Frank Mehnert
es since version 3.0.12. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.0.12 released

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Mehnert
/virtualbox/3.0.12/ Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring

Re: [vbox-users] Please include opensuse 11.2 for download

2009-11-17 Thread Frank Mehnert
ion went smoothly. So I don't see any reason to provide dedicated 11.2 packages. I've updated the links on the download page to indicate that the 11.1 packages can be installed on 11.2 as well. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems G

Re: [vbox-users] Please include opensuse 11.2 for download

2009-11-16 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Monday 16 November 2009, S. Brandt wrote: > Frank Mehnert schrieb: > > Stephan, > > > > On Sunday 15 November 2009, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > >> today I found out that vbox together with opensuse 11.2 is nothing for > >> unexperienced users. Beside

Re: [vbox-users] Please include opensuse 11.2 for download

2009-11-16 Thread Frank Mehnert
k. So I choose to > re-register ... which does not work either (gives me two "IP='xxx'" lines > and exits). That's another unrelated problem. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchhe

Re: [vbox-users] Is there a way to improve responses to bugzilla ?

2009-11-16 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Sunday 15 November 2009, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Saturday 14 November 2009, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > I ask, because in many cases there were no responses for opened bugs > > for 5 months, and in some, extreme cases even for one year, such as > > this: > > http:

Re: [vbox-users] Is there a way to improve responses to bugzilla ?

2009-11-15 Thread Frank Mehnert
nd sometimes to the bugtracker? Cross-posting increases our load and therefore makes the situation even worse. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: T

Re: [vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1 Beta 1 released

2009-11-11 Thread Frank Mehnert
them on an NFS file system. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Ma

Re: [vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1 Beta 1 released

2009-11-11 Thread Frank Mehnert
uot; version, as it should work on openSUSE > 11.2. What's the problem with the 11.1 package on 11.2? Any unmet dependency? Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: H

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1 Beta 1 released

2009-11-11 Thread Frank Mehnert
Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring signature.asc Descript

Re: [vbox-users] Guest=Debian (lenny): "conn ect: Network is unreachable " when "ping 192.1 68.8.1" (my router)

2009-11-09 Thread Frank Mehnert
ules which was created by the above script is removed as well. To find out, which network interface is the correct one to use in the guest you can do dmesg | grep eth Kind regard, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchhe

Re: [vbox-users] VBox 3.0.8->10 : Guest WinXP no boot anymore

2009-11-03 Thread Frank Mehnert
Manage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename > /home/alphaomega/VirtualDisks/Compaq.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/hda -partitions > 1,2,3 > * Note that this configuration has been in use since VBox 3.0.0 There is a regression in VBox 3.0.10 which prevents accessing raw disks. Kind regards, Frank --

Re: [vbox-users] upgrading and VB

2009-10-30 Thread Frank Mehnert
uld still run on Karmic, however, an update to VBox 3.0.10 is recommended. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Enge

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.0.10 released

2009-10-30 Thread Frank Mehnert
/virtualbox/3.0.10/ Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring

[vbox-users] Last-minute regression of VirtualBox 3.0.10

2009-10-29 Thread Frank Mehnert
Hi, some people already observed VirtualBox 3.0.10 packages on the server. Unfortunately these packages contain a last-minute regression which makes VMs in non VT-x/AMD-V mode crash. So please don't upgrade until you get the official announcement. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Me

Re: [vbox-users] sleeping

2009-10-26 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Monday 26 October 2009, Thomas De Contes wrote: > Le 25 oct. 09 à 21:04, Frank Mehnert a écrit : > > Thomas, > > > > On Saturday 24 October 2009, Thomas De Contes wrote: > >> Le 20 oct. 09 à 16:00, Thomas De Contes a écrit : > >>> why sleeping doesn&#

Re: [vbox-users] sleeping

2009-10-25 Thread Frank Mehnert
it ? :-) > > is my english too bad ? No, but you should explain the problem a bit more in detail. What do you mean by "sleeping doesn't work"? Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heims

Re: [vbox-users] upgrade form 2.2.2 to 3.0.8 in ubuntu;

2009-10-23 Thread Frank Mehnert
should be able to use VBox 2.2.2 again. Note that the .vdi format didn't change since ages, therefore the new version wouldn't harm your VMs. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amt

Re: [vbox-users] openSUSE 11.0 & 11.1 links inco rrect was Re: Repository for openSUSE Hosts?

2009-10-22 Thread Frank Mehnert
x.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/11.0/virtualbox.repo > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/11.1/virtualbox.repo Thanks for the information, fixed! Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten A

Re: [vbox-users] Repository for openSUSE Hosts?

2009-10-22 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Wednesday 04 March 2009, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Sunday 01 March 2009, Johannes Kastl wrote: > > On 1/22/09 10:05 PM Johannes Kastl wrote: > > > Would it be possible to setup a repository not only for Debian-based > > > distros, but also for openSUSE (and Fedora)

Re: [vbox-users] Building on openSUSE

2009-10-20 Thread Frank Mehnert
albox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads)? Then use YaST > > to install it. > > I want to use the Windows XP CD that came with the machine. I > understand that I have to recompile VirtualBox so that returns > identifying strings that are inherent with my BIOS and that XP uses to &g

Re: [vbox-users] Heads up 2.6.32-rc4 build failure

2009-10-19 Thread Frank Mehnert
tc/init.d/vboxdrv setup The sequence make && make install is not sufficient as there are inter-module dependencies which are handled by the init script by copying the Module.symvers file from the vboxdrv directory to the vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp directory before these modules are

Re: [vbox-users] performance report

2009-10-19 Thread Frank Mehnert
the amount of RAM of the guest and you should limit the number of CPU cores of the host to 1 (or enable VT-x if that is possible). Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 1

Re: [vbox-users] [vbox-dev] Problem with FreeBSD port

2009-10-19 Thread Frank Mehnert
packages. And please prevent cross posting if possible. Thank you! Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Fren

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox-3.0.8-53138-Linux_amd64 upgrade disables CDROM Passthrough?

2009-10-08 Thread Frank Mehnert
ctly. The guest additions are shipped as .iso and when you install the guest additions, you mount that .iso which is then detected by the guest. I will try to reproduce your problem, perhaps the passthrough setting is not properly restored when switching back to the host drive. Kind regards, Frank --

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox-3.0.8-53138-Linux_amd64 upgrade disables CDROM Passthrough?

2009-10-07 Thread Frank Mehnert
Hi Dâniel, On Thursday 08 October 2009, Dâniel Fraga wrote: > On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:48:59 +0200 > > Frank Mehnert wrote: > > Can you be more specific? Do you mean that you are not able to mount > > the host DVD drive to a VM anymore? And how do you fix that? > >

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox-3.0.8-53138-Linux_amd64 upgrade disables CDROM Passthrough?

2009-10-07 Thread Frank Mehnert
; I'd prefer if this option wouldn't get changed during upgrades > if possible. Can you be more specific? Do you mean that you are not able to mount the host DVD drive to a VM anymore? And how do you fix that? Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun

Re: [vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.0.8 released

2009-10-06 Thread Frank Mehnert
emove the old virtualbox-2.1.4 package (your VMs wouldn't be harmed) and install VirtualBox 3.0.8. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.0.8 released

2009-10-06 Thread Frank Mehnert
/virtualbox/3.0.8/ Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring

Re: [vbox-users] 64 bits OS don' boot in VBX 3.0.6

2009-09-30 Thread Frank Mehnert
64 one (or > to start a image already installed), the VBX hangs. > > Has any body have any idea of what could be happening? Actually there is a related bug in VBox 3.0.6. Please update to 3.0.8 when it will be released. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsyst

Re: [vbox-users] unsigned package error on Fedora 11 rpm

2009-09-29 Thread Frank Mehnert
MD5 sum. Kind regards, Frank PS: Your '?' key seems to chatter ... -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ vbox-users mailing lis

Re: [vbox-users] 3.06 is NOT Virtual - XP client shu ts down SuSE 11.0 host??

2009-09-20 Thread Frank Mehnert
that caused openSuSE to crash/shutdown as well. Highly unlikely. Waiting for the logs ... Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfg

Re: [vbox-users] VB don't show right ram

2009-09-18 Thread Frank Mehnert
in other pc but it's the same, I tried in the > last pc and I have the same problem. > Why don't show me right ram ? And if i increase ram what happen ? Which host is that? Windows? Linux? 32-bit? 64-bit? Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 3.0.6 released

2009-09-18 Thread Frank Mehnert
ed correctly. So what is the current status? What is the output of dpkg -s virtualbox-3.0 ? How did you get to a system hang, what do you mean by 'get the "details"', what did you do exactly? Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, In

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

2009-09-18 Thread Frank Mehnert
ady look into the user manual? sections 11.5.2 and 11.5.3? Do you have dbus+hal installed? This is advisable. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. __

Re: [vbox-users] Sound problems in guest

2009-09-18 Thread Frank Mehnert
load, that is, do you execute some CPU- intensive applications next to VirtualBox? Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 3.0.6 released

2009-09-18 Thread Frank Mehnert
nother prompt. I'm afraid it is difficult for me to be any too helpful > to you! Is there anything else I can try? Well, the prompt is the root password. Please enter the password and post the output. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.co

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 3.0.6 released

2009-09-17 Thread Frank Mehnert
ever additional information is requested by anyone who can > assist. THANKS for your time with this message!!! Well, I'm not sure what went wrong with your installation. You can try to fix the installation by doing sudo dpkg --configure --pending Make sure you terminated the kpackagekit mana

Re: [vbox-users] mac os x 10.4 / update

2009-09-17 Thread Frank Mehnert
till run VBox 2.2.4 don't receive update notifications but people running any 3.0.x version get notified when a new 3.0.x version is released. We will change the notificatiton mechanism in the near future to allow the user to choose the policy. And I assume with the next maintenance version we w

Re: [vbox-users] Are there any builds of virtualbox that work?

2009-09-12 Thread Frank Mehnert
it > wasn't for that, my guess is that Sun would include those features in > the ose version, just like they have with all the other features. Sun/Oracle will decide from time to time of some feature will be included in the OSE version or not. E1000, SATA and iSCSI are already included, US

Re: [vbox-users] vboxdrv.ko does not load "automatically"

2009-09-11 Thread Frank Mehnert
> What do you mean by "it depends on the package if this is supposed to work > or not"? What I said. We maintain the official packages. OSE packages may behave differently. Please ask the corresponding maintainers. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems

Re: [vbox-users] Are there any builds of virtualbox that work?

2009-09-11 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Friday 11 September 2009, Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: > --- On Fri, 9/11/09, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > If you cannot use one of these provided packages then you > > indeed have to use on of the generic .run packages. These > > packages are the fallback and therefore they are com

Re: [vbox-users] Are there any builds of virtualbox that work?

2009-09-11 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Friday 11 September 2009, Maciek Kaliszewski wrote: > From my part I want express my gratitude to Sun for Openoffice ,Vbox , > etc.:-) I hope this attitude will not change after takeover by Oracle :-) Thank you, we hope this too! Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystem

Re: [vbox-users] Are there any builds of virtualbox that work?

2009-09-11 Thread Frank Mehnert
eneric packages and try if it works for you? I strongly believe they do because the glibc is backward compatible. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. _

[vbox-users] VirtualBox 3.0.6 released

2009-09-10 Thread Frank Mehnert
/virtualbox/3.0.6/ Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring

Re: [vbox-users] vboxdrv.ko does not load "automatically"

2009-09-02 Thread Frank Mehnert
en why do other kernel > modules do load automatically on demand and vboxdrv does not? If you are using the official packages from www.virtualbox.org then the vboxdrv module is loaded at boot time. But as you are using the OSE version it depends on the package if this is supposed to work or

[vbox-users] VirtualBox 3.0.6 Beta 1 released

2009-09-02 Thread Frank Mehnert
ug #4700) * Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817) * SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506) * Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734) Your feedback is welcome! Kind

Re: [vbox-users] Internal Net and multicast traffic

2009-08-27 Thread Frank Mehnert
the E1000 device emulation up to and including VirtualBox 3.0.4. This problem will be fixed in the next maintenance release. The PCnet emulation should work fine though. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-He

Re: [vbox-users] Virtualbox on amd64

2009-08-26 Thread Frank Mehnert
port VT-x/AMD-V or this extension is disabled. In the latter case, check your BIOS settings or try to upgrade your BIOS. 64-bit guest support depends on VT-x/AMD-V with VirtualBox. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Descripti

Re: [vbox-users] VBox without network but connecting to host

2009-08-19 Thread Frank Mehnert
network adapter to your VM and connect it to the host-only if. Your guest should now boot fine and recognize the network adapter and you can access your host files through this network adapter. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.as

Re: [vbox-users] accessing my guest from my host system on vbox3.0x

2009-08-12 Thread Frank Mehnert
l). Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox crashes while booting from "archlinux-2009.08-core-i686.iso"

2009-08-12 Thread Frank Mehnert
tch state=4 flags=10c0081 fDirty=2 > 00:01:22.740 > > Can somebody on this list please do a test installation > of ArchLinux using the newest installation CD or at least > booting it from CD? Known problem which will be fixed in the next release. See http://www.virtualbox.org/tic

Re: [vbox-users] Windows XP SP3 boot problem with 2 disk VM

2009-08-12 Thread Frank Mehnert
g/ticket/4695 Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] windows guest hangs every 2nd booting

2009-08-12 Thread Frank Mehnert
you! Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Running problem with VirtualBox on OpenSuse 11.1

2009-08-07 Thread Frank Mehnert
hat no VBoxSVC daemon is running before you upgrade (no VMs running, GUI terminated). Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ vbox-

Re: [vbox-users] How to register for forums

2009-08-05 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > How can I register for forums? What version number can I use? As 3.0.4 was just released you have to enter 3.0.4 from now on. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signatu

[vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.0.4 released

2009-08-05 Thread Frank Mehnert
/virtualbox/3.0.4/ Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring

Re: [vbox-users] about the tool bar in full screen

2009-08-05 Thread Frank Mehnert
ind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] How to register for forums

2009-08-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
ng registration but it helps a lot to prevent SPAM in the forum. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank MehnertSun Microsystems, Inc.www.sun.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

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