Re: [vbox-users] Installin Vbox 2.2.2 or 2.2.4

2009-05-30 Thread JD
All I can suggest is you re-install Vista. Or better yet - install XP or wait for Windows 7 official release, and then install 2.2.4. Cheers, JD Mamatec S.r.l wrote: Yes I did but it doesn't even allow me to remove it... JD ha scritto: Have you tried uninstalling all versions of

Re: [vbox-users] Installin Vbox 2.2.2 or 2.2.4

2009-05-30 Thread JD
Have you tried uninstalling all versions of VBox, reboot, and then install 2.2.4? Fred wrote: Hi all. I have Vbox 2.2.0 installed on Vista 32bit. I tried to install the release 2.2.2 and right now the 2.2.4 but I keep getting the same error.. SUN xVM VirtualBox Setup Wizard ended premature

Re: [vbox-users] Connect Windows host with a Ubuntu huesped

2009-05-28 Thread JD
, JD El Clujiag wrote: Hi, I'm newer on vBox, I like it so much, but I have a problem, I need connect my Windows host to the Ubuntu guest and I don't know why. please somebody help me... -- Dici che il fiume trova la via al mare. E come il fiume giungerai a me. Oltre i confini

Re: [vbox-users] An enhancement request

2009-05-25 Thread JD
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On May 25, 2009, at 22:09, JD wrote: I am sure someone must have asked for this before. Need a tool and a kernel module which would let us mount vbox virtual drive partitions in the host. Maybe it already exists and I do not know about it. Wouldn't it be nice.

[vbox-users] An enhancement request

2009-05-25 Thread JD
I am sure someone must have asked for this before. Need a tool and a kernel module which would let us mount vbox virtual drive partitions in the host. Maybe it already exists and I do not know about it. Cheers, JD ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-22 Thread JD
, because I did not modprobe it at all. Anyhow, thanx for the tip about vboxvfs. Cheers, JD Jochen Roderburg wrote: Zitat von JD : Just to re-iterate: # mount -t vboxsf home /mnt/home /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device JD Hmm, so allow me to also re-iterate some

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
Just to re-iterate: # mount -t vboxsf home /mnt/home /sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device Cheers, JD Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: JD a écrit : Hi Johannes, on page 68 of the User's Manual, it says: mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint I

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
Right - just a typo. Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote: JD a écrit : Hi Johannes, on page 68 of the User's Manual, it says: mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint If you change vboxsf to vboxfs, the error is Unknown filesystem type: vboxfs Sure, but in your message you

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
Hi Johannes, on page 68 of the User's Manual, it says: mount -t vboxsf [-o OPTIONS] sharename mountpoint If you change vboxsf to vboxfs, the error is Unknown filesystem type: vboxfs Cheers, JD Johannes Kastl wrote: On 21.05.2009 19:28 Uhr JD wrote: # mount -t voxsf home /mnt

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
I have confirmed the seconds problem re: system-config-display is indeed an UNFIXED problem in FC10. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480534 JD wrote: Antonio Augusto (Mancha) wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 14:28, JD wrote: Background: Host: FC7 Guest: F10 VBox: 2.2.2

Re: [vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
Antonio Augusto (Mancha) wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 14:28, JD wrote: Background: Host: FC7 Guest: F10 VBox: 2.2.2 GuestAdditions installed: 2.2.2 Shared Folders: /usr/src shared as src /home shared as home --- 1. Attemptimg to mount

[vbox-users] reporting 2 problems with vbox 2.2.2

2009-05-21 Thread JD
, in init_from_xconfig if screen.device: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'device' So, given the above error, (which does not shed any light on the source or ultimate cause of the error), how can I set/chang

Re: [vbox-users] SSH Problem since upgrade

2009-03-14 Thread JD
That's interesting. Is that in the user manual? I had tried it in the past (older versions of Vbox), but always ended up having to set up the bridge, which is not a straightforward procedure. JD Johannes Kastl wrote: On 3/12/09 11:40 PM Clint Dilks wrote: I recently upgraded

Re: [vbox-users] Boot VM from USB-Device?

2009-03-14 Thread JD
p will not grab the the F keys. Once you are in the VM bios, you can set the boot order. Cheers, JD Johannes Kastl wrote: Hi Jens, and hello JD, On 3/8/09 8:09 PM Jens Franik wrote: It is described in the Manual, how to bind physical disks directly to Virtual Machines, its in the appendix -

Re: [vbox-users] Creating ISO from CD

2009-03-11 Thread JD
The command should be dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 of=/burn/some.iso bs=2k If you do not specify bs=2k, it will default to 512 bytes. Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi all, I want to install Windows 2003 Server on vbox from an iso image on machine B in a remote location. I have the Windws CD at loc

[vbox-users] System lockup during OS installation on a USB flash disk

2009-03-10 Thread JD
all laptop led's lit up like a christmas tree and keyboard and mouse became useless. Could be related to Ticket #3281. JD ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Vbox MAC OS X question

2009-03-09 Thread JD
rives/partitions in OSX, if OSX has ntfs support. Then declare each mounted ntfs partition as a shared folder in the vbox config menu. Cheers, JD Mario Barnard wrote: Hi I am new to using Vbox and not a huge technical user. I have an iMac, running Mac OS x 10.5.6. I have installed XP in Vbox. I als

Re: [vbox-users] Boot VM from USB-Device?

2009-03-08 Thread JD
g: /dev/sdc or /dev/sdb2): " # If you want to use the whole usb stick (which would make most sense as it is only 4GB), # then enter /dev/sdX where X is some letter that is OS assigned. read diskname VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename $filename -rawdisk $diskname -register

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage

2008-06-19 Thread JD
Go ahead - make my day, Mr. NULL :) Pablo Sanchez wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2008 at 4:28 pm, JD penned about "Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage" Which part of my writing called anyone "silly" or "stop consuming other peoples bandwidth" ..etc. I

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage

2008-06-19 Thread JD
Which part of my writing called anyone "silly" or "stop consuming other peoples bandwidth" ..etc. I think you might want to adjust your bias setting and be more neutral to see who is the one being aggressive, if not outright nasty. Pablo Sanchez wrote: On Thursday 19 June

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage

2008-06-19 Thread JD
in VBox, I and others are seeing cpu utilization that is up to 5 times the utilization as when app is run on host. On V-Tech cpu's this is likely not as extreme. So, I am finding that virtualization in general is not very practical for these older non-VTech cpu's. JD Frank Mehnert wr

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage

2008-06-19 Thread JD
on non-VTech HW get to run on raw cpu, you fly into this an*l response! Do yourself a favor - go find yourself another job! I hope your manager gets to read this. Michael Thayer wrote: JD wrote: For the sake of most of us who do not have the time bandwidth, would you be kind enough to state

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage

2008-06-19 Thread JD
For the sake of most of us who do not have the time bandwidth, would you be kind enough to state the location in the source code where guest instructions are run natively on non-VT hardware? It would be very helpful. Cheers, JD Michael Thayer wrote: JD wrote: Since the context we are in

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage

2008-06-19 Thread JD
vidence in source code of VBOx where it applies to non-VT hardware. JD Pablo Sanchez wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2008 at 12:58 pm, JD penned about "Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage" I really do not think there is any way out of this. A virtual machine is by necessi

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage

2008-06-19 Thread JD
eem relevant to non-VT cpu's! Cheers, JD Michael Thayer wrote: JD wrote: I have heard of VM's which let guest code run directly on cpu. I dont know much of the details of this, but I suspect it might apply only to guest apps which are running in user mode only (i.e. no syscall&#x

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage

2008-06-19 Thread JD
comparison purposes, is to run some standardized benchmarking programs for each Virtualizer on same guest OS, same host OS, and same hardware. Sounds like a good project for a student to get extra credit from the prof :) Cheers, JD Gaurav Verma wrote: I hate to revive this old thread, but I a

Re: [vbox-users] Migrating a WinXP HD to VBox

2008-05-30 Thread JD
After using winXP cd in recovery mode and disabling agp440 and intelppm, and rebooted (in safe mode with command prompt), it hung at loading gagp30kx.sys. So Went back to recovery console and disabled gagp40kx. Now it hangs at Mup.sys Apparently this is not a new problem, as I found many hits on go

[vbox-users] MergeIDE.bat

2008-05-29 Thread JD
I downloaded the mergeide utility and executed mergeide.bat. It emits the following errors: C:\Tmp\MergeIDE>MergeIDE.bat Extrahiere Treiberdateien... expand: invalid option -- f Try `expand --help' for more information. expand: invalid option -- f Try `expand --help' for more information. expand:

[vbox-users] agp440.sys / intelppm.sys

2008-05-29 Thread JD
with the installed hal(s) when discussing migrating existing disks. Could someone from support explain what to do about the hal dll's for migrated disks? Regards, JD ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox.exe: 98% cpu usage

2008-05-23 Thread JD
I have the same problem with both hosts: win xp and Fedora 7. Running the guest and doing any useful kind of work on the guest, especially when doing disk io and/or net io, it sucks up from 70 to 100% of my amd64 3700+ cpu. This is my experience with VB 1.5.x and the current 1.6. JD de Almeida

Re: [vbox-users] NAT Networking with w2k guest

2008-05-12 Thread JD
. Cheers, JD Josh Trutwin wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2008 09:19:00 -0500 JD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Be sure that you install the guest add-on in your guest OS'es first. After you do that, NAT networking works just fine. If you want to use anything Host Interface or Bridged Networ

Re: [vbox-users] NAT Networking with w2k guest

2008-05-12 Thread JD
have to set the route manually also. JD Josh Trutwin wrote: > Hi - posted something to the forums last week but no answers there. > It looks like there are some host networking issues with 1.6, but I > am having trouble with even simple NAT networking. I've upgraded > from 1

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

2008-05-12 Thread JD
I confirm the graphics driver behavior you describe. I also confirm the slow I/O of shared folders. JD Pablo Sanchez wrote: On Monday 12 May 2008 at 8:32 am, Brian J. Murrell penned about "Re: [vbox-users] Failure (again) of Vbox to import VMDK image onMac" As I said in

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

2008-05-11 Thread JD
solid strip and VBOx pops a banner about the guest having crashed or stuck (dont recall which). Would be great if those who have succeeded in booting a pre-existing windows disk to write all the steps to do and provide a link to where it will be permanently accessible. Cheers, JD Glen McAllister

[vbox-users] Shared Folders

2008-05-09 Thread JD
Hello List, Updated to vbox 1.6 on my winXP. Had a previous guest of FC 8 which I was using with vbox 1.5.x. This is the first time that I chnaged theVM configuration to add 2 shares to it. Both shares are the root dirs of windows disks: f:\ and g:\ The share names were set to f and g respectivel

Re: [vbox-users] Raw Disk Access from OpenSolaris...

2008-05-08 Thread JD
tall windows due to corruptions. Cheers, JD Matthias Pfützner - Data Center Ambassador - Strategy and Technology wrote: > Folks, > > a couple of questions... ;-) > > 1.) When will we get the "-relative" switch to the > > VBoxManage internalcommands createraw

Re: [vbox-users] new Ubuntu only 800x600

2008-04-26 Thread JD
After I had installed the guest tools, I had qabsolutely no problem in using /usr/bin/system-config-display to set things to 1280x800 on my laptop. But then, I had this working for a long time now. This is the resulting xorg.config file: # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Secti

Re: [vbox-users] Right-Control Key

2008-04-26 Thread JD
That works. Thanx! Changed it to only key that I never use, and would work: menu key :) Dutch wrote: JD wrote: My laptop has no Right side control key. I do not have a very portable external keyboard. (Will probably have to find one later ...) But for now, how can I toggle my mouse so I

[vbox-users] Right-Control Key

2008-04-25 Thread JD
desktop. Host is Fedora 7. Thanx, --JD ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] new Ubuntu only 800x600

2008-04-25 Thread JD
1. Did you install the add-ons on the host in support of the guest? 2. In the guest, run /usr/bin/system-config-display and set your display resolution - in the hardware tab, set your display type, and your video card (which should be the one that the VBox emulates). Cheers, JD Rob

Re: [vbox-users] Question about VBox

2008-04-23 Thread JD
Thank you Alexey! Could you please describe these proprietary features as far as what they provide? Best regards, JD Alexey Eremenko wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:47 PM, JD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are the binaries of vbox that are downloadable from Binaries (all platforms)

[vbox-users] Question about VBox

2008-04-23 Thread JD
from a source other than VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) ? -JD ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] creating virtual computers

2008-04-23 Thread JD
http://www.virtualbox.org/download/UserManual.pdf Create virtual computers? Just use the vbox GUI to configure a new virtual machine. For special commands to create a VDK for a physical drive or partition, then see section 9.9 on page 105. For discussion of networking, see section 6. For console

Re: [vbox-users] vista crashes when intalling guest Mandriva One 2008 spring

2008-04-14 Thread JD
Sorry, I had misunderstood your problem!! Since Windows is complaining about the ATI driver, have tried to get latest driver update for Windows? Check with http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html ? They might have a more recent driver than what you have. Regards, JD Charles-Philippe lajoie

Re: [vbox-users] vista crashes when intalling guest Mandriva One 2008 spring

2008-04-14 Thread JD
You must first install the guest add-on's on the guest. Without them, Windows will not have the correct driver for graphics, for physical disk drives, for ethernet...etc. Charles-Philippe lajoie wrote: Let me be a bit more specific. I can install Vbox 1.5.6 on Vista and also create my virtual

Re: [vbox-users] What kind of networking combination do I need?

2008-04-14 Thread JD
tune them to your liking. Regards, JD Gaurav Verma wrote: Actually, you know what. I am able to get the DHCP assigned IP in the host for Virtualbox TAP Adapter 1 in the 169.254.x.x subnet and then with a so called Roaming Mode enabled or Ipv4 local mode in Ubuntu, I do get another IP (non-confl

Re: [vbox-users] What kind of networking combination do I need?

2008-04-14 Thread JD
rvice on the virtual interface), so the host can obtain an ip address. Slowly, I think the developers will polish this nice product. Regards, JD Gaurav Verma wrote: Hi JD, Thanks for your response. Did you assume that the host will be ubuntu, because the terms you are using seem to be linux ori

Re: [vbox-users] Introduction / Difficulties with host-networking

2008-04-14 Thread JD
d down, and firewall rules are setup to do the ip-fo accomrwarding and NAT'ing. I would have absolutely NO idea how I could accomplish all this on a windows host! Regards, JD Boris wrote: Hej JD, thanks a lot for your comment! As you can see in the description, the vbox uses

Re: [vbox-users] What kind of networking combination do I need?

2008-04-14 Thread JD
Hi Gaurav, 1. You need to use Host Interface - NOT NAT. 2. You will need to enable the DHCP daemon on the host to accept requests over the tap0 interface. 3. You will need to use tunctl to create tap0 and ifconfig it to ip address 10.0.2.1 (for example) Cheers, JD Gaurav Verma wrote: Hi

Re: [vbox-users] Introduction / Difficulties with host-networking

2008-04-14 Thread JD
hosting your guest. Without good knowledge of networking, you will have a hard time with connect to your guest from/to other machines. Good luck, JD Boris wrote: > Hej all, > > > I'm new to this list, so first I want to introduce myself. I'm working > in North-Germa

Re: [vbox-users] can't create swap partition on SUSE 10.3 guest

2008-04-12 Thread JD
On Fedora 7 x96_64 host, I used VB to create a VM that used the external drive. I was able to install FC8-i386 on the VM where Icreated the 4GB swap partition. No problems. Cheers, JD Martin Laub wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install a SUSE 10.3. guest on a 1.5.6 VM on a Windows XP

Re: [vbox-users] vbox interfaces at 10Mb want to change to 100Mb

2008-04-01 Thread JD
I thought that the vbox engine does not try to keep the speed at 10MB/s, nor even the windows driver that vbox add-on-tools installs on windows. Jonathan Larsen wrote: > So i've noticed that my created vbox0 and vbox1 interfaces have a speed > link of 10Mb/Full. How can i change that for them to

Re: [vbox-users] Problems with video driver

2008-03-20 Thread JD
Why would you want to? If windows XP gets booted, (and it MUST be booted and log'ed into in order for you to install the addons), then use the Devices tab and be done with it. Seems to me you are making yourself unhappy by not following the the info being given. Christian wrote: Hi JD,

Re: [vbox-users] Problems with video driver

2008-03-20 Thread JD
guest, and you should be able to set your windows graphics settings to as-you-like-it. Good luck, JD Christian wrote: HiI haven't seen this. How do i install that? -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: "JD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Till: "VirtualBox end user list"

Re: [vbox-users] Problems with video driver

2008-03-20 Thread JD
Did you install the guest add-on on windows guest and then reboot? Christian wrote: > Hi all, > I am running VirtualBox under Linux and have installed Windows XP as the > guest OS. > However, there seem to be problems with proper video driver under > Windows. > Any ideas on how to solve this? > Ma

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

2008-03-20 Thread JD
OS was constantly demanding of the host. Cheers, JD Brian J. Murrell wrote: 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 consumin

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

2008-03-20 Thread JD
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 alas, if vbox team is going to obviate this issue, then why bother? Cheers, JD Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 08:29 -0700, JD

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

2008-03-20 Thread JD
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 drives. Regards, JD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [vbox-users] "raw partitions" usage in VirtualBox?

2008-03-19 Thread JD
Does the directory /export/images/vbox_or_xvm/ exist? If is does, do you have write permission? Do you have write permission on /dev/lofi/1 ? Matthias Pfützner - Data Center Ambassador - Strategy and Technology wrote: So, next problem. Now I have done the following: On the old PC under

Re: [vbox-users] Setting up host interface. Fails to initialize.

2008-03-18 Thread JD
. If you can improve upon it and make it work without compromising the firewall, then please be sure to post it back to this list. Cheers, JD Jonathan Larsen wrote: Hello all. i created a script to start and stop a TAP device and add it to a bridge. http://pastebin.ca/947116 . when i test

[vbox-users] Problem with windows no recognizing virtualized HD

2008-03-15 Thread JD
o say, I had gotten a copy of the vbox add-on drivers and installed them on normally booted windows before I tried to boot it in vbox. Cheers, JD ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Virtualizing an existing Windows, but running on a RAID controller?

2008-03-14 Thread JD
the booted windows. The booted windows will invariably do something NASTY to disable the other bootable windows partition from booting again. Cheers, JD Enver ALTIN wrote: Hi, I've got an ancient Dell PowerEdge 1660 reached to its end-of-life, and I'm trying to virtualize the existi

Re: [vbox-users] Problem with booting windows hard drive in vbox

2008-03-13 Thread JD
I downloaded MergeIDE.zip, unzipped and executed MergeIDE.bat I rebooted back into Linux, and retried to boot it in vbox. No go - it gets stuck the same way. Michael Thayer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello JD, You might want to take a look at the page http

[vbox-users] Problem with booting windows hard drive in vbox

2008-03-12 Thread JD
I created the vmdk for the hard drive as follows: VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename /home/jd/.VirtualBox/Machines/winxp/winxp-hd.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdc -register The drive /dev/sdc is bootable from the grub menu. No problems there. But when I boot it in vbox, windows

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

2008-03-12 Thread JD
Will try... Don't know if the drive will be bootable :) Brian J. Murrell wrote: 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

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

2008-03-12 Thread JD
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 itself and put it on a drive and boot linux from that drive

Re: [vbox-users] NAT

2008-03-11 Thread JD
Document says that when using NAT, ping is generally blocked, AND if you use NAT, there will be NO visible interface of the guest on the host for you to see. The vbox engine acts as the router, and masquerader for the guest. Manoj Joseph wrote: > Hi, > > I am a VirtualBox newbie. I was able to i

Re: [vbox-users] NAT not working on Indiana on Virtual Box

2008-03-11 Thread JD
What is project indiana? :) I dont think Vbox has a support (add-on) package for it - so you will not be able to access network. Amit Kumar Saha wrote: > Hello, > > I installed Project Indiana developer preview 2 on Ubuntu 7.04 using > Virtual Box (from the repository) . > > However, though I hav

Re: [vbox-users] Opensolaris, vboxusers

2008-03-10 Thread JD
-NAME vboxusers I dont know if solaris uses the same command name. Good luck. -JD Manoj Joseph wrote: > Hi, > > I am unable to run VMs as a non-root user. Adding myself to vboxusers > has not helped. I am on opensolaris. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > SunOS mowgli 5.11 snv_79

Re: [vbox-users] Problem mounting raw disk as read/write - Windows Host/Linux Guest

2008-03-08 Thread JD
partitions' drive letters (if they are indeed ntfs or fat32 partitions that windows has already assigned drive letters for) as shares in the VM configuration. Good luck. JD Larry Finger wrote: I am using VirtualBox 1.5.6 with Windows XP as host and openSUSE 10.3 i386 as guest. The virtual

Re: [vbox-users] Guest additions borked after WinXP guest crash

2008-03-08 Thread JD
, and once windows reboots, try to re-install the additions. I had to go through a a few re-tries myself. Cheers, JD Thorsten wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running 32bit Ubuntu Gutsy as host and WinXP SP2 as guest. > > WinXP crashed today and somehow the functionality of the guest additi

Re: [vbox-users] Guest OS(Winxp): Unable to connect to internet, network

2008-03-08 Thread JD
rules and guest OS will cease communication with the outside world. So, place these 3 scrips somewhere in your PATH. I usually place things like thisn in my ~/bin/ which is in my path, and chmod them to make them executable. And that's it!! Please let me know how it went. Cheers, JD A D

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

2008-03-07 Thread JD
Actually, I borrowed it from http://tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/ chapter 3.4.1 Of course you will have to trim it to suit your version of OS. It also describes port forwarding in chapter 6.7 What an excellent reference page and so relevant to virtualbox bridged networking. Cheers, JD

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

2008-03-07 Thread JD
Hi Pablo, I figured out the firewall masquerading rules and now the bridged networking works perfectly. Thanks for dropping the hint re: iptables :) Cheers, JD ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman

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

2008-03-07 Thread JD
e = 0ms C:\> So, perhaps I need a firewall rule to NAT tap0 outgoing packets to 192.168.1.2. Cheers, JD Pablo Sanchez wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2008 at 9:28 am, Pablo Sanchez penned > about "Re: [vbox-users] multiple real interfaces and bridging" > > Hi, > > I was

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

2008-03-07 Thread JD
Hi Pablo, Seems that IP forwarding on Linux is not taking place. After installing ssh client on the windows guest (via the shared folder), I was able to ssh into the host via ip address of the tap0 interface: ssh2.exe [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, ssh2.exe [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is the IP address

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

2008-03-07 Thread JD
d by /sbin/dhclient-script search localhost.localdomain nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 192.168.1.1 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/br0/proxy_arp 1 Cheers, JD Pablo Sanchez wrote: On Friday 07 March 2008 at 2:40 pm, JD penned about "Re: [vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Guest OS(Winxp): Unable to connect to internet, network

2008-03-06 Thread JD
Hey, I am having exactly the same problem. I have posted about it more than once, to no avail. I wonder if bridging did ever work. A D wrote: > Hi! I'm completely new to VirtualBox forum. please have patience with me. > I've installed > virtualbox v1.5.6 on debian etch host machine. Installed wi

Re: [vbox-users] Opening Linux email attachment in Windows guest

2008-03-06 Thread JD
Re: why don't you introduce these people to OO? Hardihar! Have you tried to convince "businessmen", who are totally enraptured by the blue screens of death, to switch to anything other than what billy boy sells? I gave trying many years ago. Cheers, JD Brian J. Murrell wrote

Re: [vbox-users] Opening Linux email attachment in Windows guest

2008-03-05 Thread JD
e to send those documents away to people who are not unix/linux clones users, then I resort to using MS word to edit and fill out those docs. Cheers, JD steve wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Fernando Sanz wrote: > > | If I receive, say, a Word docu

Re: [vbox-users] Opening Linux email attachment in Windows guest

2008-03-05 Thread JD
Hi Ian, I am curious how you used samba to share linux folder with vbox guest OS. Did you use the VBOX shared folders feature or did you use samba daemon on Linux and configure smb.conf to export that folder? If the latter, it means that you did not use the NAT networking interface in the VM config

Re: [vbox-users] Networking via bridging

2008-03-02 Thread JD
lled when I had accidentally selected xen kernel from the grub menu, and it has remained in the system. My VBOX bridge is vboxbr0. Cheers, JD ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

[vbox-users] Networking via bridging

2008-03-01 Thread JD
On my fedora 7, with VirtualBox-1.5.6_28266_fedora7-1.x86_64 I created a vm for winXP, with a raw partition (/dev/sdb2) as the hard drive installed winXP. During install, it crashed several times. After it finally managed to install itself, I tried to boot the HD. Windows could not be booted. I won

[vbox-users] bad linkage of x86_64 vbox

2008-03-01 Thread JD
The X86_74 version of vbox I installed is linking with the wrong qt lib. All x86_64 linux'es install both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of a library by default. The x86_64 version of vbox is choosing to link with the 32 bit version of the qt library in usr/lib/ instead of /usr/lib64/ To wit: #

Re: [vbox-users] Automounting Shared Folders

2008-02-29 Thread JD
You call that good news? Pablo Pérez wrote: > Hi, the good news is that you don't even need to add anything to your > fstab file for mounting shares automatically; all it takes is a short > script file and telling your desktop to load it at startup. > > Here's my step by step: > > == Shares setup:

Re: [vbox-users] Automounting Shared Folders

2008-02-28 Thread JD
What I did is add the following line in my /etc/fstab MySharedFolder/mnt/share/MySharedFolfer vboxsf defaults- - Of course /mnt/share/MySharedFolder must be created first. MySharedFolder is the name you gave it when you configured in the main vbox settiings for s

Re: [vbox-users] Still unable to bring up NAT networking

2008-02-26 Thread JD
Thank you Frank and Herman. After deleting those files and configuring eth0 from scratch, network is now up. Next I will try to see if I can get bridging to work. I realize it is slightly more involved, but i need lan computers to be able to connect to guest OS. Cheers, JD Hermann J. Beckers

Re: [vbox-users] Still unable to bring up NAT networking

2008-02-26 Thread JD
device 0x8086:0x100e (e1000) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="08:00:27:44:a8:ca", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth0" Frank Mehnert wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008, JD wrote: So, all of them use the sa

Re: [vbox-users] Still unable to bring up NAT networking

2008-02-26 Thread JD
l of them use the same driver except for the MAC addresses. I cannot connect with any web site on the internet from the guest OS. I tried to telnet, ssh, wget, ...etc all came back with Temporary (sic!) failure in name resolution. On the guest, resolv.conf contains 10.0.2.3 as the nameserver. Seems m

[vbox-users] Still unable to bring up NAT networking

2008-02-26 Thread JD
- invisible to the host). So, why isn't vmbox virtual iface forwarding the packets to the host for nat'ing ? * Michael Thayer wrote: JD wrote: Hi Michael, I switched over to Win XP and retried. Installing the VBOXADDITIONS, and running I get the following error: Hello JD,

Re: [vbox-users] Copy Virtual Machine to another PC

2008-02-25 Thread JD
, depending on how much work you are willing to put into it :) Cheers, JD Scott Hulsmann wrote: Hello, I am new to virtualbox but I have used other virtual machines in the past. With Parallels and Vmware I have been able to copy the virtual disks to other machines I have instead of performing a

[vbox-users] chcon error

2008-02-25 Thread JD
Can anyone tell me if this error which is belched out during rpm install will cause unexpected problems? # rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/VirtualBox-1.5.6_28266_fedora7-1.x86_64.rpm < Preparing...### [100%]

[vbox-users] Installing host vbox tools

2008-02-25 Thread JD
# sh VBoxLinuxAdditions.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox 1.5.4 Guest Additions for Linux installation. VirtualBox 1

Re: [vbox-users] problems with ether and display

2008-02-25 Thread JD
. ---* So, what Hardware ID is it referring to? The Graphics chip? It is an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. Michael Thayer wrote: JD wrote: Have F7 x86_64 host. installed latest vbox. Guest OS is F8 i386. Doing this to see if things will work well. Have these 2 problems: 1

[vbox-users] problems with ether and display

2008-02-24 Thread JD
Have F7 x86_64 host. installed latest vbox. Guest OS is F8 i386. Doing this to see if things will work well. Have these 2 problems: 1. even though display is 1280x800, I am not able to get the guest display to full screen when I go to full screen mode. Also, when trying to configure the d