Re: [vbox-users] USB ports not seen in guest W XP

2009-08-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joep L. Blom wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Section 11.5.7 of the manual. It is also in the FAQs. >> >> One other thing - I hope what you mean by subscribed to the >> vboxusers group means you added your Linux user name to the Linux >> group vboxusers. &

Re: [vbox-users] USB ports not seen in guest W XP

2009-08-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joep L. Blom wrote: > Mikkel, > Sorry for asking the obvious but I haven't found it in the manual. The > paragraph on USB does only tell you to be subscribed to the vboxusers > group as I did. I have no idea which permissions have to be set, > especially as vbox is started from the user account (an

Re: [vbox-users] USB ports not seen in guest W XP

2009-08-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Joep L. Blom wrote: > Thanks for your reply. > Yes. I have USB enables and tried to add a filter for the device. > However, it sometimes says "Unknown device 1130:6801 [0302] and > sometimes it gives the line "Tenx Technology". > I can enable the filter for "unknown device 1130:6801 [0302] but when

Re: [vbox-users] (no subject)

2009-08-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
tsuraan wrote: > I posted this on the forums in June and never got any response, so I > figured I'd try again here; it looks like the lists get a good amount > of traffic. > You really should give your message a subject that indicates your question/problem. It is not unusual for people to ignore m

Re: [vbox-users] How to install vista in vbox on toshiba laptop?

2009-08-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
David C. Rankin wrote: > > Very Interesting!, > > This must be a Vista only issue. What I finally did was to use > one of my XP licenses to install XP as a guest which installs > without a problem. My laptop uses both Archlinux and openSuSE as > the hosts (primary and backup hard drives). Furthe

Re: [vbox-users] Trouble in Virtual Box's Windows?

2009-07-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Jim Kvarnberg wrote: > I am still struggling on how to get my hundred scanned pictures out on > either backup hard drive via USB or CD disk. I put in a brand new blank > CD-RW disc and a dialog box popped up in the Windows XP Pro, "Disk is > not formatted. Windows cannot read from this disk. The

Re: [vbox-users] Problem access to Backup Hard Drive via USB

2009-07-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Jim Kvarnberg wrote: > Even though USB 2.0 (E_H_CI) Controller is enabled to Seagate Portable > (0130), I couldn't access to it as to transfer files from Windows XP Pro > (guest) in the Sun VirtualBox 3.02 to the hard drive. My host OS is > Ubuntu 8.10 amd64. Please help as I need to get my many

Re: [vbox-users] Time stands still in guest during System save

2009-07-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul Gilmartin wrote: > I reported a similar problem a few months ago with either > OS X or XP host and Solaris guest. I observed it when I > put the host (laptop) to sleep; when I reawaken the host, > the guest clock is wrong but the host clock (of course) is > correct. > > Suggestions on this l

Re: [vbox-users] Running Virtual Box, security concern for logged on user?

2009-06-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
James Bensley wrote: > Hey Listee's > > I am running Virtual Box on one of our domain controllers (Win 2k3; > There is simply no where else to run it!) and I am wondering; is there > anyway I can run Virtual Box as a service so I don't have to leave a > user constantly logged in? What is bothering

Re: [vbox-users] USB problem with VirtualBox 2.2.4 on WinXP guest on Mandriva 2009.1

2009-06-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Maurice Batey wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:31:26 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> I believe it is mounted in the initial RAM disk. > > I don't have a USB problem any more, after taking care of vboxusers > and usb groups. > > But - out of curiousity:

Re: [vbox-users] USB problem with VirtualBox 2.2.4 on WinXP guest on Mandriva 2009.1

2009-06-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Maurice Batey wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:34:43 -0500, Miguel Cárdenas wrote: > >> The only solution that worked was editing the 'usbfs' entry in my /etc/fstab > >No such entry in Mandriva 2009.1 /etc/fstab! I believe it is mounted in the initial RAM disk. You can do a remount to set the

Re: [vbox-users] USB troubles

2009-05-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
David Both wrote: > I am also interested in those details. > > > Thanks! > > What I did was create a udev rule like this: -- # Rules for VirtualBox USB devices. ACTION!="add", GOTO="vbox_rules_end" SUBSYSTEM!="usb", GOTO="vbox_rules_end" # eBo

Re: [vbox-users] USB troubles

2009-05-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Graham Campbell wrote: > I am having the old problem with all the possible USB attached devices > being grayed out in the Devices/USB menu item for the guest. This is > true for all guests. The host is a Fedora 10 system, using the PUEL > VirtualBox. I know it must be a permissions problem be

Re: [vbox-users] installing from an iso

2009-05-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to create a guest and use an iso image to install the OS for > the guest, rather than putting in a CD. > > How would I go about booting the iso image? > > Thanks > Ricardo > There is an option to mount an .iso image under the CD/DVD section. It is no d

Re: [vbox-users] Unregistered machine 'UbuntuFun' cannot have hard disks attached

2009-04-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Onno van der Straaten wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been a happy VirtualBox user for some time now. > > Now I have a problem that I don't understand. I'm trying to move a vm to > a different computer, so I'm trying to change the host OS. > > I Itried to simply copy the machine folder and the VDI f

Re: [vbox-users] Serial ports

2009-02-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:28:29AM -0500, Graham Campbell wrote: >> I have found a way around this problem. A USB-Serial device. Now I can >> think about retiring an old Windows system that I keep around only to >> run a couple of Windows only programs that drive serial port

Re: [vbox-users] Debian 5.0 vBoxLinuxAdditions failed

2009-02-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Jens Franik wrote: > > Thank you, after installing Kernel-headers, gcc, freebsd-buildutils > (gmake), ... > > I could sucessfull install, but it is not comfortable for Users. > > This is only for Admins, Geeks and Nerds... > Who else is going to be setting up virtual machines? Mikkel -- Do

Re: [vbox-users] [mailer-dae...@show to use printer on Linux host from XP guest?

2009-02-16 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Chris G wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:52:47PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Chris G wrote: >>> I have an HP1320 Laserjet printer set up on my Linux (xubuntu 8.10) >>> host machine using CUPS, I can share it from other Linux machines on >>> the LAN.

Re: [vbox-users] [mailer-dae...@show to use printer on Linux host from XP guest?

2009-02-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Chris G wrote: > I have an HP1320 Laserjet printer set up on my Linux (xubuntu 8.10) > host machine using CUPS, I can share it from other Linux machines on > the LAN. > > How do I use it from Windows XP guest machines running under > VirtualBox? This is both from a guest XP machine on the machine

Re: [vbox-users] Can VirtualBox lie the clock/date to a VM?

2009-02-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Frans Pop wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2009, fcassia wrote: >> Or are you telling me that people whom travel to a different time zone >> do not roll back their system clock? > > Not if they're using a proper OS like Linux... > > ;-) > My system clock does not even change for things like dayl

Re: [vbox-users] Windows 98

2009-01-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Daniel Hauck wrote: > Someone not long ago posted a question regarding Windows 98 as a guest > under VBox. It kind of sparked my curiosity. > > I have VBox 2.1.2 installed on a Fedora 10 x86_64 host. (Latitude D830) > > I created a guest, set up for Windows 98, 256MB RAM, 16MB video, SB16 > soun

Re: [vbox-users] Windows 98

2009-01-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Pablo Sanchez wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009 at 9:49 am, Daniel Hauck penned > about "[vbox-users] Windows 98" > >> The machine installs... but SLOW and it completed floods one of my >> processor cores. I cannot get guest additions to install as they seem >> only to support Windows 2000 and u

Re: [vbox-users] Vista recovery disks?

2009-01-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
edju wrote: > Is it possible to install vista as a guest OS into a Linux host with just > the "recovery" disks? > It depends on the "recovery" disks. Some will only restore to specific hardware. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketch

Re: [vbox-users] Clone Virtual Machine

2009-01-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Jens Franik wrote: > Guten Tag James Matthews, > > am Samstag, 17. Januar 2009 um 18:57 schrieben Sie: > >> You can also just copy it to another location and then open it. > > I thought, this is exactly what does not work. > Tell me Step by Step and i will do it exactly like you advise. > > (I

Re: [vbox-users] a new copy of a VM

2009-01-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
dick hoogendijk wrote: > I have a good running windows XP virtual machine. > I want to test out windows7 on top of this XP release (the upgrade > option). I don't want to loos my XP xVM though. > > So, if I copy the VDI file and create a new machine with this file is > this a safe way of getting t

Re: [vbox-users] Vbox 2.1.0 build for "fedora 9 / 10" does not include Fedora 10 kernel module - why?

2008-12-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
fcassia wrote: > Fresh Fedora 10 install... > > # rpm --install VirtualBox-2.1.0_41146_fedora9-1.i386.rpm > > Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group! > > No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages > emitted during module compilation wi

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Stealth wrote: > On Friday 12 December 2008 09:06:30 am Ondrej Sluciak wrote: >> I have one very stupid question, but I want to be sure that I am >> right. If you have 2 interconnected virtual machines running and >> let them compute some problem in parallel (using message passing >> interface - MP

Re: [vbox-users] Vbox 2.0.6 and AVG 7.5 on Win XP = Horrible Slownessfor Mapped Drives

2008-12-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Stealth wrote: > On Thursday 11 December 2008 02:35:58 am Fernando Cassia wrote: >> I haven't seen that on Linux, but I admit I haven't looked at the >> state of Linux firewalls in a long time. The "IPTables is good >> enough" attitude is not very helpful, imho, as you only set >> general per-port

Re: [vbox-users] Vbox 2.0.6 and AVG 7.5 on Win XP = Horrible Slownessfor Mapped Drives

2008-12-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
David Brown wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> I run Firefox most of the time. When running Windows, I use the open >> in IE plug in. (I have not figured out how to use it under Linux...) > > It won't work under Linux, because you don't have IE installed in

Re: [vbox-users] Vbox 2.0.6 and AVG 7.5 on Win XP = Horrible Slownessfor Mapped Drives

2008-12-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
David Brown wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Good advice, but sometimes had to follow. Sometimes you run into >> sites you have to access with IE. (Once that you have no choice >> about accessing.) I use a good hardware firewall at home, but it is >> a bit hard to

Re: [vbox-users] Vbox 2.0.6 and AVG 7.5 on Win XP = Horrible Slownessfor Mapped Drives

2008-12-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
David Brown wrote: > > Why would you be using an on-access antivirus program at all? They are > a huge waste of money and resources, and totally unnecessary if you > follow a few basic security rules (make sure nothing nasty can get into > your computer by scanning your email, using a clamav f

Re: [vbox-users] Vbox 2.0.6 and AVG 7.5 on Win XP = Horrible Slownessfor Mapped Drives

2008-12-06 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Daniel Hauck wrote: > > I would suggest not using antivirus at all. The wonderful thing about > virtual machines is that they can be copied and backed up and restored > and all sorts of things like that. No antivirus is 100%... no antivirus > is even %50. The drawbacks of antivirus far outweigh

Re: [vbox-users] Problems virtualizing a real server

2008-12-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Gregory Nowak ha scritto: > >> On my debian guest, udev seems to like renaming the pcnet32 card from >> eth0 to eth1. My suggestion would be to try configuring eth1 instead >> of eth0. > > Bingo! > > That was it! > > MANY Thanks!! > > Does anyone know just why tha

Re: [vbox-users] Serial port not working + Using virtual serial port of windows vista guest in Windows xp/vista guest

2008-10-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Sudhakar L wrote: > Hi Mikkel, > > > Thanks for the reply. > > > I have written a program today to just do that. But it did not work. > > > As mentioned earlier, my intention was to setup a virtual serial port > communication between two windows guests. Forget about connecting the > two syste

Re: [vbox-users] USB memory device is recognized but shows as UNAVAILABLE

2008-10-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> It sounds like the user running VirtualBox does not have permission >> to access the USB devices. This is covered in the manual. Depending >> on the Linux distribution, the method in the manual may not work. >> You may want to post the Linux distribution the host system

Re: [vbox-users] USB memory device is recognized but shows as UNAVAILABLE

2008-10-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > This is the first time I try to connect my USB memory to access it from my > Windows XP guest (host is Linux), it is not mounted by windows but appears > in the VirtualBox Devices->USB described with its full characteristics but > in gray color with a legend UNAVA

Re: [vbox-users] Using virtual serial port of windows vista guest in Windows xp/vista guest

2008-10-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Sudhakar L wrote: > Hi, > > Basically I want to debug some vista VM kernel drivers from another > windows VM using virtual serial cable. > > I just want to know if this is possible. Depending on the answer, I > can save a windows license getting tied to hardware. > > > Regards > Sudhakar > Loo

Re: [vbox-users] Kubuntu HH 8.04 with Virtualbox 2.2 and usb support

2008-10-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Steven Davies-Morris wrote: > Peter Klaassen wrote: >> Op Sunday 12 October 2008 20:57:12 schreef Steven Davies-Morris: >>> If you got it from the sun site then it's PUEL. >> indeed, but no usb-support > > PUEL provides USB support. However you have to be registered as a USB > user. It is all in t