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

2009-09-01 Thread Larry Finger
Angel Tsankov wrote: > Other suggestions? openSUSE has a "Modules Loaded On Boot" system configuration variable. Does Linux from Scratch have anything like that? If not, you might add "/sbin/modprobe vboxdrv" to boot.local. ___ vbox-users mailing list

Re: [vbox-users] some problems

2009-08-30 Thread Larry Finger
emre berat nebioğlu wrote: > > > > yeah i installed it.But i have some situtation that bother me.I am using > > karmic koala and i have 3 versions kernel. > > 2-6-28,2-6-30,2-6-31 i guess virtual box doesnt support 2-6-31.And > > ubuntu doesnt have headers and source package for 2-6-28,I have all >

Re: [vbox-users] some problems

2009-08-30 Thread Larry Finger
Do you have kernel sources installed? ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] How to leave a full screen?

2009-04-14 Thread Larry Finger
Andrius wrote: > Michael wrote: >> "Right CTRL" +"F" >> >> and read the manual , help inside on Virtual Box >> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Andrius >> wrote: >> >>> How to leave a full screen mode (or to swith between real and virtual >>> OS)? >>> In new version installation of adittions

Re: [vbox-users] new host networking option in 2.2

2009-04-09 Thread Larry Riedel
eir default router, and the only other host on their subnet, does it seem like a good idea to use host-only rather than bridged. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] new host networking option in 2.2

2009-04-09 Thread Larry Riedel
ration where the host is essentially providing an Ethernet switch to which the host and guests are all connected; the host could also in that case act as a default router for a guest. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http:/

Re: [vbox-users] limiting IP access from an app in a VM?

2009-03-18 Thread Larry Riedel
It might not be too difficult to just configure things so the guest uses the host as its upstream router, then do all the magic on the host, which could be configured with iptables agnostic of vbox. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] 2.0.0-2.0.14 Incredibly Slow Transfer XP Guest to Linux Server

2009-03-13 Thread Larry Finger
Vasily Levchenko wrote: > Hello Larry, > > What type of networking are you using ? I'm using the default NAT method. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] 2.0.0-2.0.14 Incredibly Slow Transfer XP Guest to Linux Server

2009-03-12 Thread Larry Finger
Mb/s, but from the guest to the server is only 95 Kb/s. While the upload was running, the wireless link on my AP would show a burst of activity followed by several seconds of inactivity, then another burst. It is as if something has to time out before more info can be sent. Larry

Re: [vbox-users] Switching from the host to the fullscreen virtual machines using hotkeys

2009-02-03 Thread Larry Riedel
nsoles in LInux fast is supposed to be coming soon. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Unresponsive mouse

2009-02-01 Thread Larry Finger
? I've seen the case in 2.1.2 where the clicks aren't getting through to the Windows XP guest; however, everything was OK when I escaped back to the openSUSE 11.1 host. The only solution I've found is the standard one for Windows - reboot. Only the guest needed it for me. Larry ___

Re: [vbox-users] VB 2.1.0 Linux - Host Interface Bridging notworking

2009-01-06 Thread Larry Riedel
vboxnetflt... whatever the netfilter plugin is... has issues when it comes to things like passing ARP requests/replies between the real network and the guest. There is a "Where networking results from 2.1" thread in this vbox-users list which talks about

Re: [vbox-users] VB 2.1.0 Linux - Host Interface Bridging notworking

2009-01-06 Thread Larry Riedel
rkarounds have been posted. I am waiting for the next 2.1.x release because I get the impression 2.1.0 has significant problems. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] 2.0.6 -> 2.1.0: Reinstall Linux to fix guest network

2008-12-29 Thread Larry Finger
mig...@toursbymexico.com wrote: > Hi people > > I fixed my problem with my Linux guest network after upgrading from VBOX > 2.0.6 to 2.1.0 that stopped working. This message is more informative than > help required. > > My Linux Slackware guest network (Slackware host too) got damaged after > the

Re: [vbox-users] Support for ISZ-Images

2008-12-20 Thread Larry
Yeah, I would welcome that feature too! > HI, > > coul´d you implent support for ISZ-Images (compressed ISO-Images) in a future > Release? > > I think it would be usefull for people with many ISO-Images on the HDD... so > they can converts it to ISZ and savy many Space... > __

Re: [vbox-users] Where networking results from 2.1

2008-12-18 Thread Larry Riedel
the messages? It looks from the ifconfig like the guest kernel should be responding to arp requests if it sees them. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] VBOX 2.1.0: error while loading shared libraries: libcap.so.1

2008-12-17 Thread Larry Riedel
ant" and libcap2 is "standard". Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Where networking results from 2.1

2008-12-17 Thread Larry Riedel
ees an ARP request for 192.168.1.50, it will reply saying the destination ethernet address should be whatever is the ethernet address of eth1. Show or delete that entry using arp -n -i eth1 and arp -n -i eth1 -d 192.168.1.50 This would be a workaround, not a

Re: [vbox-users] Where networking results from 2.1

2008-12-17 Thread Larry Riedel
et address to use for 192.168.1.50. I have no idea if the vbox driver is supposed to respond to the ARP requests, or pass them through to the guest, or if the host is somehow supposed to do proxy ARP... or maybe this problem has nothing to do with ARP at all. I presume ever

Re: [vbox-users] No USB devices working on virtualbox 2.0.6

2008-11-29 Thread Larry Finger
I have a mixture. One was added before SP3, but several were added after. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] No USB devices working on virtualbox 2.0.6

2008-11-28 Thread Larry Finger
be > SP3) that causes a problem with new USB devices. I think also it's > probably purely a Windows problem and nothing at all to do with > VirtualBox. I have an XP Pro virtual machine with SP3 installed. The USB devices that I allow through the filter work perfectly well. Larry

Re: [vbox-users] Using VirtualBox on Ubuntu without user interface

2008-11-12 Thread Larry Riedel
. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

2008-10-28 Thread Larry Riedel
.vdi" got involved. The User Manual talks about using vmdks which point to block devices on the host. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

2008-10-28 Thread Larry Riedel
> We want a block device that two guests can > read and write to at the same time I found the documentation in section 9.9 of the Users Manual covered this pretty well. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.or

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

2008-10-28 Thread Larry Riedel
k does not imply they are necessarily going to access that area at the same time. For example one Linux guest could mount a disk partition read-write, make some changes, then unmount the partition. Another Linux guest could later do the same thing. Then th

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

2008-10-28 Thread Larry Riedel
t;. VirtualBox supports "two VM's with one shared disk between them.", which was the question asked in the original message in this thread. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

2008-10-27 Thread Larry Riedel
ry first hit is: > [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shared_disk_file_systems] Yes, the key words there are "file system", as is made clear in that Wikipedia article. A shared disk file system is a layer above a shared disk, which provides a block device interface (as mentioned in the article).

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

2008-10-27 Thread Larry Riedel
> what is implied when a disk is shared. It means > the VM is emulating a clustered file system [...] To me, in the VirtualBox context, a "disk" is a something accessed by a guest using the equivalent of a unix "block device", and is at least one layer b

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

2008-10-27 Thread Larry Riedel
sts do (if anything) to keep from stepping on the regions to which they have both been told they have access. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] shared disk?

2008-10-27 Thread Larry Riedel
> setup two VM's with one shared disk between them. I found the documentation in section 9.9 of the Users Manual covered this pretty well. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

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

2008-10-26 Thread Larry Riedel
> it gives an error saying "tunctl: command not found" > although I installed "bridge-utils" package correctly. If I do "apt-file search tunctl" it says uml-utilities: /usr/sbin/tunctl Larry ___ vbox-users mailing

[vbox-users] USB device reset/release after usbdetach

2008-07-28 Thread Larry Riedel
of a storage device, trigger usb-storage to make the device available in the host again. Is there a clean way to get this to happen? I can of course just remove and insert the device physically, or hack up some program to reset the device or the hub port, but I am hoping to avoid that. Larry

Re: [vbox-users] Current User of VisualBox

2008-07-11 Thread Larry Finger
th YaST. Click the green "Start" button, select "Computer" and "Administrator Settings" After you enter the root password, you should select "Security and Users" and "User and Group Management". Select

Re: [vbox-users] Can 32bit Windows Vista run on 64bit VirtualBox?

2008-04-30 Thread Larry Finger
Hugh wrote: > Well, Larry. I am running ubuntu with 256M allocated on a 516M M$ XP > host. Ubuntu is working fine while xp can still work, though not that > smoothly. I thought it would be possible to do anything with 1G :-) With Vista 1 GB is sufficient as long as you give _ALL_

Re: [vbox-users] Can 32bit Windows Vista run on 64bit VirtualBox?

2008-04-29 Thread Larry Finger
Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Hi Larry, > > > I only have 1G RAM on board. But I'll install VB on Ubuntu 7.10 > desktop amd64 as Host. Would there be any problem? Thanks > > > B.R. I have not run Vista as a guest, but I think that the host should have at le

Re: [vbox-users] Can 32bit Windows Vista run on 64bit VirtualBox?

2008-04-28 Thread Larry Finger
64bit VB. Thanks The only problem will be the amount of RAM that you have. My experience is that one should not let a guest have much more than 1/2 the memory of a Windows host. As Vista needs ~1 GB, your real machine should have at least 2 GB. Larry __

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

2008-04-25 Thread Larry Finger
gt; > Rob I installed Ubuntu 8.04-rc as a real machine on my laptop, and could only get 800x600, even when I changed xorg.conf. I have not tried the final release yet. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

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

2008-04-13 Thread Larry Finger
't support DPO or FUA sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 16777216 512-byte hardware sectors (8590 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sda3

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

2008-03-08 Thread Larry Finger
em to read/write. What am I missing? Thanks, Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 1.5.6 released

2008-02-21 Thread Larry Finger
change didn't make it into the release. We will provide an >> update package for the kernel module soon. > > Excellent! Thanks in advance. The patches for kernel 2.6.25 were posted by me in gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel in the thread "Error in building latest SVN&

Re: [vbox-users] Installing W95 from floppy + CD

2007-10-25 Thread Larry Finger
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Larry Finger wrote: >> After you did the fdisk and format, did you reboot? I have installed >> W95 without any problems. > > Do your W95 installation disks consist of a bootable floppy and a > non-bootable cd? > Trying to install from the cd aft

Re: [vbox-users] Installing W95 from floppy + CD

2007-10-24 Thread Larry Finger
ow could I reach the CD from the DOS prompt? > > > The bootable floppy must have the CDROM drivers loaded in the > config.sys, and mscdex loading in autoexec.bat. > > Where'd this bootable floppy you are using come from? After you did the fdisk and format, did you re

[vbox-users] Bug in registration pop-up

2007-10-15 Thread Larry Finger
The registration pop-up that just appeared contains a bug as it will not let me insert a '.' (period) before the @ in my E-mail address. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Crashes on Windows XP (Linux Host)

2007-09-04 Thread Larry
Same Problem here as described on the ticket. Meanwhile, it runs stable when disabling sound and usb. Will check these days whether the problem depends on sound OR usb... Host: Gentoo - up to date VirtualBox 1.5 from virtualbox.org Guest: W2KSP4 - up to date - Larry Am 08/21/2007 07:42 PM

[vbox-users] Test on x86_64 version

2007-06-06 Thread Larry Finger
get "All Supported Files". It works OK in 1.3.8 on a Windows XP box. I filed a bug report that has been marked "Fixed in 1.4.0", but I get the old behavior in both the RPM version, and a copy built from the svn sources. Thanks, Larry

Re: [vbox-users] "modprobe vboxdrv" returns "Invalid argument" (Vitrualbox 1.4.0 on 64-bit Linux)

2007-06-06 Thread Larry Finger
me/ein # modprobe vboxdrv > FATAL: Error inserting vboxdrv > (/lib/modules/2.6.18.2-34-default/misc/vboxdrv.ko): Invalid argument > " Does dmesg show any additional information regarding the error? I have not downloaded 1.4.0, but have built it from the svn repository on an

[vbox-users] Problem with Virtual Disk Manager on x86_64

2007-05-30 Thread Larry Finger
ered, they work just fine. It is just a pain to find and enter them. I am using the latest svn revision. The problem has existed since I was first able to build a 64-bit version. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbo

Re: [vbox-users] Build problem with x86_64

2007-05-30 Thread Larry Finger
Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Larry Finger wrote: >> Frank Mehnert wrote: >>> What is the content of your /etc/ld.so.conf? The file should contain >>> /usr/lib. >> It does. >> >>> Please try to compile the file foo.c >

Re: [vbox-users] Build problem with x86_64

2007-05-30 Thread Larry Finger
here for libXt.so that pointed to /usr/lib/libXt.so.6.0.0, it worked. I also had the same problem with libX11, but I have now built svn revision 2925. Many thanks for your help. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox

Re: [vbox-users] Build problem with x86_64

2007-05-29 Thread Larry Finger
Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Larry Finger wrote: >> Frank Mehnert wrote: >>> Hi Larry, >>> >>> On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Larry Finger wrote: >>>> While building the latest svn version on an x86_64 host, I am getting >>>&g

Re: [vbox-users] Build problem with x86_64

2007-05-29 Thread Larry Finger
Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi Larry, > > On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Larry Finger wrote: >> While building the latest svn version on an x86_64 host, I am getting the >> error shown below. My recollection is that I had this once before, but that >> was during the time when 64-b

[vbox-users] Build problem with x86_64

2007-05-29 Thread Larry Finger
/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lXt The 32-bit version of libXt.so.6.0.0 is present in /usr/lib, but there is no libXt.a nor libXt.la in /usr/lib. Thanks, Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Build problem with kernel 2.6.22-rc1 and later

2007-05-29 Thread Larry Finger
Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Frank Mehnert wrote: >> On Monday 28 May 2007, Larry Finger wrote: >>> Frank Mehnert wrote: >>>> Hi Larry, >>>> >>>> On Thursday 24 May 2007, Larry Finger wrote: >>>>> This is a &

Re: [vbox-users] Build problem with kernel 2.6.22-rc1 and later

2007-05-28 Thread Larry Finger
Frank Mehnert wrote: > Hi Larry, > > On Thursday 24 May 2007, Larry Finger wrote: >> This is a "heads-up" for people. Something changed with kernel 2.6.22 that >> breaks building the kernel module. AFAIK, all the errors are associated >> with variable 'cu

Re: [vbox-users] Screen resolution on Win98 VM

2007-05-28 Thread Larry Finger
ct 800x600 in the control panel. Using a generic XVGA driver does _NOT_ give me 1024x768 resolution - that driver fails to load correctly. With the SVGA driver, I still get only 16 colors and have never been able to get 256 colors, which is what I would like. Larry __

[vbox-users] Build problem with kernel 2.6.22-rc1 and later

2007-05-24 Thread Larry Finger
This is a "heads-up" for people. Something changed with kernel 2.6.22 that breaks building the kernel module. AFAIK, all the errors are associated with variable 'current'. I am trying to trace this down and will submit a patch if I a

[vbox-users] Problem with Virtual Disk Manager on AMD64

2007-05-10 Thread Larry Finger
1.3.8 with Windows XP as the host, which is why I suspect an x86-64 problem. I have not tried a 32-bit Linux version. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Color settings in Windows 95 guest

2007-05-09 Thread Larry Finger
owest level of Qemu, but it has really poor performance. My uses of the Windows guest are so infrequent that it wouldn't be worth while adding an XP quest, and I'll live with the 16-color problem. If I have any spare time, I'll look into adding new drivers. Thanks for the explana

[vbox-users] Color settings in Windows 95 guest

2007-05-08 Thread Larry Finger
et 16 colors - not the 256 colors I want. I have tried both 16 and 64 Mb video memory with no effect. Thanks for help. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Building vbox from source for AMD64 on opensuse 10.2

2007-05-05 Thread Larry Finger
John Eberly wrote: > "My system definitely has gcc." > > so does mine. > > it appeared to my untrained eye, that possibly there were some comments > improperly escaped with @#, so I deleted all of those lines and now I am > getting the following. > > Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-c

Re: [vbox-users] Building vbox from source for AMD64 on opensuse 10.2

2007-05-05 Thread Larry Finger
Luis Gallardo wrote: > Make sure you have gcc installed on your Linux. I have been building VBox on an AMD64/openSUSE 10.2 system for a couple of weeks. Today, after I downloaded the r2514 update, I got the same error. My system definitely has gcc. Larry > On 5/4/07, John Eberly &

Re: [vbox-users] Virus Question

2007-04-30 Thread Larry Finger
hine, and I cannot use it on my computer as there are still some problems with the x86_64 version of VBox. At least I can now build and test the SVN code. Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

[vbox-users] guest os support of PCI cards?

2007-01-29 Thread Larry Matter
lot of information on how Windows guests perform. Will VirtualBox support PCI hardware in a guest vm? Any other comments/thoughts are appreciated. Lastly, why is Vista not a supported host OS? Thanks! Larry Matter ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-

[vbox-users] Problem installing openSUSE 10.2 guest on Win-XP host

2007-01-21 Thread Larry Finger
d the logs, but this error is not logged. I would appreciate any suggestions on fixes or work-arounds. Thanks, Larry ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

[vbox-users] Support for DOS(MS-DOS/FreeDOS)

2007-01-19 Thread Larry
When booting from net, vmbox searches for DHCP and receives an IP 10.0.2.15 (DHCP 10.0.2.2, Gateway 10.0.2.2) but grumbles a "no filename". Any idea what's wrong there? Maybe a weak DOS-Support as the usermanual claims about? Thanks in advance... -- Larry ___