Re: [vbox-users] discarding_snapshots

2010-03-07 Thread Mark Cranness
Cousin Stanley wrote: > After reading a number of articles via google-ization > I remain confused about discarding virtualbox snapshots > in order to merge them all together > > Should one work discarding from the top-down ( oldest-to-youngest ) > or discarding from bottom-up ( young

Re: [vbox-users] Converting physical to virtual

2010-02-16 Thread Mark Cranness
On Tuesday, February 16, 2010 11:45 PM, "Trond Husø" wrote: > In the coming days I will try and convert a physical (running) XP Pro > installation to a virtual one. > > I have searched the web and as far as I can see the only > solution is to > use VMWare Co

Re: [vbox-users] Snapshots Explained

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Cranness
On 6 February 2010 05:56, James Bensley wrote: > ... however it turns after making a snapshot that is what you are > actually running and so rolled my VM and all its data back a month. > Luckily I restored the missing data from a back which resides off of > the VM. Deleting a snapshot with the 'D

Re: [vbox-users] Linux Host, two Windows Guests

2010-02-06 Thread Mark Cranness
On 6 February 2010 04:49, wrote: > My first guest is Windows XP professional 32 bit.  It works perfectly by > itself.  My second guest is Windows 2003 server 32 bit.  It also works > perfectly by itself.  Try running them both at the same time, however, and > CPU usage goes to saturation and even

Re: [vbox-users] Time-Problem?

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Cranness
On Monday, January 11, 2010 3:19 AM, Thomas Trepper wrote: > Does anybody has an idea how to synchronized *without* guest-additions? VirtualBox time and timers do seem to be problematic. You might try one or more of: - Check that the TM: cTSCTicksPerSecond= value (look in VBox.log) agrees with t

Re: [vbox-users] Time-Problem?

2010-01-19 Thread Mark Cranness
2010/1/20 Mark Cranness : > (Force set it with VBoxManage setextradata "" > "VBoxInternal/TM/TSCTicksPerSecond" ) Sorry: VBoxManage setextradata "" "VBoxInternal/TM/TSCTicksPerSecond" ___ vbox-use

Re: [vbox-users] Importing existing machines from 3.0 to 3.1.2

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Cranness
2010/1/15 James Mansion : > I upgraded from Vista 32 to Win7 64, so I installed a new VBox. > > Couldn't make it see my existing machines - which are in an unusual place, > admittedly.  It imports the portable format - but notits own legacy ones. >  How bizarre is that? If they are in an unusual p

Re: [vbox-users] Is it possible to simulate storage expansion using VirtualBox?

2009-12-09 Thread Mark Cranness
2009/12/10 Dedhi Sujatmiko : > is there a possibility to do a simulation of storage/disk/LUN size expansion > using VirtualBox? Using CloneVDI (runs on Windows hosts or Linux hosts using wine) is the easiest way to enlarge a virtual disk: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=22422 The

Re: [vbox-users] guest died after upgrade to 3.1

2009-12-05 Thread Mark Cranness
2009/12/2 Adam Bozsik : > I upgraded from 3.0.12 to 3.1 on a 64 bit Debian Lenny. After that that my > only guest - a Server 2008 64 bit - constantly throwed promiscuous blue > screen of deaths (e.g. STOP 0x001E error). > > Since I downgraded to 3.0.12 the guest works well again. It seems that

Re: [vbox-users] how to script attaching a DVD?

2009-12-05 Thread Mark Cranness
2009/12/5 Dick Davies : > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Klaus Espenlaub > wrote: >> Dick Davies wrote: >>> --dvd >> >> Did you check the docs? --dvd is deprecated in VirtualBox 3.1.0 and thus no >> longer shows up in the docs (it only intended for backwards compatibility >> with VMs configs whi

Re: [vbox-users] Use 2nd WinXP drive as VM drive

2009-10-14 Thread Mark Cranness
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:55 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 10/13/2009 05:07 PM, NoOp wrote: >> What I'd like to do is create a WinXPPro VirtualBox VM on the linux >> drive (sdb), and rather than do it on the same drive, have it use the >> WinXPPro installed on sda. > > No takers eh? Anything that I need to