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

2010-03-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
my suspicion. *sigh* I wish people who are in managerial positions would consider what their technical people tell them. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users

[vbox-users] A virtual beer for Frank and Klaus was ... Re: Fw: Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

[vbox-users] Create a new list? Re: Fw: Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
problem. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Create a new list? Re: Fw: Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
...@lists.sourceforge.net. Hey Fernando, Sure, that works for me and it'd be a lot easier! :) I think the only question I have is whether Sun/Oracle will update their web site to point to the new list. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax

Re: [vbox-users] Create a new list? Re: Fw: Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
sourceforge would be my preference. :) Anyone opposed? If so, please state why. Let's keep it logical; please no emotional debates. :) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox

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

2010-03-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
inefficient. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] New vbox-users community mailing list at sourceforge.net

2010-03-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vebox-users-community Hi everyone, Fernando has made me co-admin of the list. This is only for redundancy. Fernando's position on the list is to not moderate. I agree. Same as we have now. Of course, we expect people to continue to be nice. ;) Cheers, -- Pablo

[vbox-users] FAQ entry created was Re: Work-in-progress How to report a problem was Re: Memory over 3Gb

2010-02-25 Thread Pablo Sanchez
Hi everyone, Frank created a FAQ entry on `How to get help' - see [ http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ ]. Now if someone requesting help doesn't provide sufficient data, please point them to the FAQ. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax

Re: [vbox-users] Memory over 3Gb

2010-02-18 Thread Pablo Sanchez
data to collect when submitting a question? Starting sentences with `As usual a question with half the ...' is not entirely friendly. Perhaps your intention isn't to be polite though. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

[vbox-users] Work-in-progress How to report a problem was Re: Memory over 3Gb

2010-02-18 Thread Pablo Sanchez
you attempted and what was the result of each attempt? Data o Question: Can we post `VBox.log' -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users

[vbox-users] 3.1.4 - md5sum link busted

2010-02-13 Thread Pablo Sanchez
a `Not Found' page. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox does not start

2010-01-18 Thread Pablo Sanchez
/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --pipe 9 --auto-shutdown pablo15838 15808 6 08:09 ?00:15:45 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox --comment winxp --startvm 7add4211-2afd-4dc1-9084-f0ece1ca142 Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
it is not using systemcalls to emulate the cpu I guess ... Hi Tobi, H. At this point, I can't do much more. I think your best bet is to open a bug. Sorry man. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

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

2010-01-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
/virtualbox_vs_vmware.html http://tobi.oetiker.ch/test/virtualbox_vs_vmware.png always hopeful Hi Tobi, I encourage you to open a bug. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
me know if you'd like additional information. Web Page [ http://www.hillsandlakes.com/tests/w2003.html ] Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
drive on your machine and pop XFS: mkfs.xfs -f -l lazy-count=1,size=128m _some_device_ Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
to the complexity ... as you noted above. :) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
and register to get the downloads. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
a 32-bit O/S. If I recall, I can't run a 64-bit VM. Researching now ... -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 2:52 pm, Pablo Sanchez penned about Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking [ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 2:44 pm, Tobias Oetiker penned about Re: [vbox-users] vbox

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 3:01 pm, Pablo Sanchez penned about Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking No matter, only 64-bit is available. I'll download and try to create the VM. :) Hi Tobi, No-go, I couldn't create the VM due

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

2009-12-01 Thread Pablo Sanchez
not what you want to do. :) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

[vbox-users] cpio error when installing Beta 2, 3.1.0

2009-11-25 Thread Pablo Sanchez
on file /usr/share/virtualbox/nls/qt_ru.qm;4b0da240: cpio: read failed - Bad file descriptor -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-users] cpio error when installing Beta 2, 3.1.0

2009-11-25 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 25 November 2009 at 4:34 pm, Pablo Sanchez penned about [vbox-users] cpio error when installing Beta 2, 3.1.0 Howdy, I'm on `openSUSE 11.1' and when I attempt to install the latest 3.1.0 Beta (2), I'm getting a `cpio' error. Any hints? :) I

Re: [vbox-users] cpio error when installing Beta 2, 3.1.0

2009-11-25 Thread Pablo Sanchez
Howdy, Well, I was too slow ... looks like Beta 3 is out. I'll give it a shot. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org

[vbox-users] cpio error when installing Beta 3, 3.1.0 - openSUSE 11.1

2009-11-25 Thread Pablo Sanchez
]: -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

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

2009-11-24 Thread Pablo Sanchez
an compile toos are installed and working. Anybody got any idea what this warning is? Funny, I saw the warning too and as you figured out, it is innocuous. Yet we should squelch it. I should have raised the issue too. Sorry, I got lazy. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph

Re: [vbox-users] .toast - .iso for use with VirtualBox

2009-11-18 Thread Pablo Sanchez
-to-an-iso-file-on-windows/ ] Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

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

2009-11-03 Thread Pablo Sanchez
, Based on it being a `regression', that means (to me) it's a bug which will be addressed. As opposed to it being labeled a `feature' :) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

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

2009-10-22 Thread Pablo Sanchez
/opensuse/11.0/virtualbox.repo http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/11.1/virtualbox.repo Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] swap

2009-10-20 Thread Pablo Sanchez
you don't buy another 1GB stick of RAM? My personal computer has 6GB because I run up to three VM's; some with 1.5GB of RAM. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] virtualbox 3 and usb on linux

2009-10-16 Thread Pablo Sanchez
. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] NFS mount in VirtualBox

2009-10-12 Thread Pablo Sanchez
network addresses. I see the following: NFS server:192.168.x... virtual linux box: 10.0... Setup your Virtual Linux Box to be on the same network as the NFS Server: 192.168.x.x I'd also ensure your VM is using Bridging for its networking. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak

Re: [vbox-users] Removal From Email Request

2009-10-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
a bit too much to ask with, what I'm guessing, several thousand users. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http

Re: [vbox-users] Use mac as guest os?

2009-10-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
`Gold' version and copied it to my other machines. This way I only stand up one VM. Licensing issues aside ... Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list

Re: [vbox-users] sharing a virtual hard disk between running virtual machines

2009-09-30 Thread Pablo Sanchez
to create such a demo, I can use VBox. The good thing about using VMWare is it exposed some of its `unique' features to me. :D Please post back with your results. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] sharing a virtual hard disk between running virtual machines

2009-09-29 Thread Pablo Sanchez
Florin, Several VBox versions ago, I too tried to test Oracle RAC with OCFS2 but I ran into the same problem as you. I (unfortunately) had to use VMWare. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

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

2009-09-19 Thread Pablo Sanchez
~/.VirtualBox/Machines/machine/Logs/VBox.log Also, see if `/var/log/messages' has anything meaningful related to when you start your VM and it crashes your box. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] Mounting both DVD reader and writer drives

2009-09-14 Thread Pablo Sanchez
(possibly a network drive) and copy from disk back to the target. Will the above work for you? Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users

[vbox-users] Problems cloning - 3.0.6

2009-09-11 Thread Pablo Sanchez
...@oreo-1034-[vdi]: -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Problems cloning - 3.0.6

2009-09-11 Thread Pablo Sanchez
.vdi VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.6 (C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. UUID changed to: b3209666-d010-4ca3-a684-d409bad7717c -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] Problems cloning - 3.0.6

2009-09-11 Thread Pablo Sanchez
: OpenHardDisk(Bstr(szFilenameAbs), AccessMode_ReadWrite, false, Bstr(), false, Bstr(), srcDisk.asOutParam()) at line 624 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp pa...@oreo-1358-[vdi]: -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] Problems cloning - 3.0.6

2009-09-11 Thread Pablo Sanchez
a work-around so I'm able to move forward. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox

Re: [vbox-users] File system Abstractions....

2009-09-10 Thread Pablo Sanchez
. But it is always best to get a consensus of more than 1 person :D. If you're dealing with large-ish files, I'd go with XFS over any other file system. More than likely though, you'll be bottlenecked by the processor power of your machine, which drives I/O. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database

Re: [vbox-users] Bridge Networking

2009-09-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
Internet access by MAC/IP? My VM (XP) is set up for DHCP and it can get to the Internet without issue so I'm guessing there's something on your gateway which may be the issue. Can you ping the gateway? Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax

Re: [vbox-users] Bridge Networking

2009-09-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Friday 04 September 2009 at 5:12 pm, Derek Mcdaniel penned about Re: [vbox-users] Bridge Networking On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 17:05 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote: On Friday 04 September 2009 at 4:30 pm, Derek Mcdaniel penned about Re: [vbox-users] Bridge

Re: [vbox-users] Bridge Networking

2009-09-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Friday 04 September 2009 at 5:26 pm, Derek Mcdaniel penned about Re: [vbox-users] Bridge Networking On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 17:18 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote: Is there any way you can enable debug/trace on the Proxy Server? Let me see if I can find any

Re: [vbox-users] Poor IO performance

2009-08-18 Thread Pablo Sanchez
]: dd if=plugh of=y bs=1048576 273+1 records in 273+1 records out 286660839 bytes (287 MB) copied, 2.00301 s, 143 MB/s -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox

Re: [vbox-users] Poor IO performance

2009-08-18 Thread Pablo Sanchez
...@oreo-1018-[data]: dd if=X of=/home/pablo/y bs=1048576 820+1 records in 820+1 records out 859982517 bytes (860 MB) copied, 8.75171 s, 98.3 MB/s Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] Memory Overcommit and Recursive Paging

2009-08-17 Thread Pablo Sanchez
][ VM #2 ] I mentioned my set up: o 6GB of Physical RAM, o 1.5 GB for VM #1 and 768MB for VM #2: roughly 2.25 GB for VM's 6 - 2.25 = 3.75GB free for other `stuff' on the Host. I hope the above helps. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph

Re: [vbox-users] Memory Overcommit and Recursive Paging

2009-08-17 Thread Pablo Sanchez
posted the resolution: download the latest Nvidia driver. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman

Re: [vbox-users] Memory Overcommit and Recursive Paging

2009-08-17 Thread Pablo Sanchez
encountered the Nvidia graphics driver memory leak) ... it's brutal! :) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de

Re: [vbox-users] external disk

2009-08-14 Thread Pablo Sanchez
with the external disk disconnected, and i still need to use a VM What is your Host O/S? Mine is Linux and using `ln' (symbolic links), I've moved my .VDI's to other disks. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] external disk

2009-08-14 Thread Pablo Sanchez
the external disk is back ? Hi Thomas, Sorry for not addressing the above question. It's largely up to the Guest O/S on what it will do. You could disconnect the VDI from the Guest VM before you start it. :) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax

Re: [vbox-users] external disk

2009-08-14 Thread Pablo Sanchez
:16 data4ss-db-big.vdi -rw-r--r-- 1 pablo users 20G 2009-08-14 09:48 data4ss-win2003.vdi -rw-r--r-- 1 pablo users 29G 2009-08-14 09:34 winxp.vdi -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] freebsd guest kernel panic on OSX vbox host

2009-08-12 Thread Pablo Sanchez
disk partition instead? Is it also possible you've created too small of a Virtual Disk? If so, you could make it somewhat large and not pre-allocate the file. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

[vbox-users] 3.0.4 - minor - null byte in cut-buffer

2009-08-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
/ticket/4712 ] If you use `vi', it seems `vi' will filter the null byte. Environment === VBOX 3.0.4 Host O/S: openSUSE 11.1 Guest O/S: XP, Windows 2003 -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] 3.0.4 - minor - null byte in cut-buffer

2009-08-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
. ;) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

[vbox-users] 3.0.4 - minor bug - no mouse cursor on restore

2009-08-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
is seeing the issue. I'll open a bug shortly. Environment === Host O/S: openSUSE 11.1 Guest O/S: XP latest Service Pack, Windows 2003 -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

[vbox-users] Bug 4700 opened was Re: 3.0.4 - minor bug - no mouse cursor on restore

2009-08-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
] Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] How to use bridging without network?

2009-08-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
I'm not connected, I use NAT. I switch to Bridged when I'm connected (either ethernet or wirelessly). If your VPN client isn't working properly with NAT, you may consider filing a bug to get it resolved. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax

Re: [vbox-users] 20090731VB -- Win98 Client Speed

2009-07-31 Thread Pablo Sanchez
or guest OS, namely Win98.  This is Windows 98 ORIGINAL; it is NOT Windows 98 SE. Google `virtualbox windows 98 slow' Your best bet may be to use QEMU rather than VBOX. Personally, I'd vote for no resources to be expended on making W98 performant. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database

Re: [vbox-users] 20090731VB -- Win98 Client Speed

2009-07-31 Thread Pablo Sanchez
or guest OS, namely Win98. This is Windows 98 ORIGINAL; it is NOT Windows 98 SE. It seems there's a way to get some performance out of W98 with VBOX, please see: [ http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2t=9918 ] Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph

Re: [vbox-users] 20090731VB -- Win98 Client Speed

2009-07-31 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Friday 31 July 2009 at 12:58 pm, Daniel Hauck penned about Re: [vbox-users] 20090731VB -- Win98 Client Speed I would vote differently. As expected! :) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225

Re: [vbox-users] CPU Cap

2009-07-17 Thread Pablo Sanchez
possibility though is to use the Host O/S tools to lower the VM's priority. IMO, this is better than placing a cap: when there are free cycles, the VM can have it, if not, it gets lower priority. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225

Re: [vbox-users] (no subject)

2009-07-15 Thread Pablo Sanchez
at the documentation first though. ;) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Installing O/S in a new VM ... was (no subject)

2009-07-15 Thread Pablo Sanchez
. ;) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] 3.0.0 and networking

2009-07-03 Thread Pablo Sanchez
. Thank you for your help. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

[vbox-users] 3.0.0 and networking

2009-07-02 Thread Pablo Sanchez
icon and the menu pops up and I can't do anything further with it. I try to `Restart' (via the Start menu) and at this point, the VM is unresponsive. I can only kill it and restart. This was not happening with the previous 2.x version. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc

Re: [vbox-users] Help - I've trashed my VirtualBox

2009-07-01 Thread Pablo Sanchez
and assign the copied VDI to it. I just did this very task last night (gloatOn my new 8p, I7/950 rig. ;) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox

Re: [vbox-users] vbox 3.0.0 has problems

2009-07-01 Thread Pablo Sanchez
to find out that after de-installing 2.4 guest additions the XP installation cycles in crashes during boot up. Hi Stephan, I realize you must be frustrated. I'm running 3.0.0 on openSUSE 11.1 with XP guests and there's no issue. Perhaps there's something funky with your setup. Cheers, -- Pablo

Re: [vbox-users] MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
the latest version of VirtualBox? If so, you can enable `3D Acceleration': o Settings General `Basic' tab - near the bottom `Enable 3D Acceleration' Not sure if that's the issue. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax

Re: [vbox-users] VBox : does it only use physical RAM or also SWAP?

2009-05-26 Thread Pablo Sanchez
a group of VM's and oversubscribing RAM. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Slow ssh after ssh-keygen

2009-05-11 Thread Pablo Sanchez
. Also, simplify the problem: do not use the key at first. Once you get everything working sans key, add the key into the mix. You _may_ need to generate two keys depending on the whether you're in the VPN environment or not. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph

Re: [vbox-users] Slow ssh after ssh-keygen

2009-05-10 Thread Pablo Sanchez
host name. The easiest thing to try is to make the sshd_config change on the host O/S. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-users] Slow ssh after ssh-keygen

2009-05-10 Thread Pablo Sanchez
', you'll get the long log in times. It's a quick test so give it a whirl. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http

Re: [vbox-users] Slow ssh after ssh-keygen

2009-05-09 Thread Pablo Sanchez
sshd_config' -- `UseDNS') The way I troubleshoot `ssh' issues is by increasing the verbosity using multiple `-v' settings. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] VBoxManage collect, delayed output when piping

2009-05-08 Thread Pablo Sanchez
| grep host Try using the `--line-buffered' option to grep - for more information, `man grep' Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] VBoxManage collect, delayed output when piping

2009-05-08 Thread Pablo Sanchez
redirecting to disk ( foo). Ah, that's a big clue. It seems VBoxManage is buffering. Have you tried to `strace' the call? You may find VBoxManage is not calling `fflush()' (or the equivalent). Sounds like a bug ... Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926

Re: [vbox-users] VBoxManage collect, delayed output when piping

2009-05-08 Thread Pablo Sanchez
| grep -i flush, returns nothing). As it's not flushing, I suspect that's the core issue ... :( Hasta! -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users

[vbox-users] 2.2.2 - 3D Acceleration enabled - memory leak?

2009-05-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
`top', I found my VM's virtual size at 1.5GB. Yikes! I shutdown the VM and the only thing I could recall changing was enabling 3D acceleration. Anyone else see this anomaly? Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] 2.2.2 - 3D Acceleration enabled - memory leak?

2009-05-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
swapped out. VIRT = SWAP + RES. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox

Re: [vbox-users] 2.2.2 - 3D Acceleration enabled - memory leak?

2009-05-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
to defend my point: Vbox has a memory leak. Frank, any comments? Do you need additional data? I'm more than happy to let the process once again bloat and I'll capture any `sar'/`top' data to prove the box is swapping - if that's required. :) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database

Re: [vbox-users] 2.2.2 - 3D Acceleration enabled - memory leak?

2009-05-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
and write a little shell script to monitor memory usage on virtualbox. Unless Frank has another idea. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] 2.2.2 - 3D Acceleration enabled - memory leak?

2009-05-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
startup. 3D acceleration enabled # PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 20090507-11:04:15 - 18790 pablo 20 0 881m 849m 46m S6 27.9 1:57.64 VirtualBox -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax

[vbox-users] Possible resolution was Re: 2.2.2 - 3D Acceleration enabled - memory leak?

2009-05-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
- 18790 pablo 20 0 882m 851m 46m S 12 28.0 8:02.89 VirtualBox 20090507-12:09:22 - 18790 pablo 20 0 882m 851m 46m S4 28.0 8:32.37 VirtualBox -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] 2.2.2 - 3D Acceleration enabled - memory leak?

2009-05-07 Thread Pablo Sanchez
%MEMTIME+ COMMAND 20090507-11:04:15 - 18790 pablo 20 0 881m 849m 46m S6 27.9 1:57.64 VirtualBox ... 20090507-13:09:28 - 18790 pablo 20 0 883m 851m 46m S6 28.0 13:59.41 VirtualBox Cheers, Antonio, a.k.a Mancha, a.k.a. KhaoticMind :p -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak

Re: [vbox-users] a simple software on mac os x

2009-04-28 Thread Pablo Sanchez
to be reasonable in recognizing everyone who has installed VirtualBox using kernel-level privileges, has not had an issue. I've been using VirtualBox since it was first released. btw, is your shift key broken? :) Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax

Re: [vbox-users] OT: I hope Sun employees revolt

2009-03-19 Thread Pablo Sanchez
? Thanks. -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

[vbox-users] (repost third time .. :) Fwd: 2.1.4 - Networking between Guest and Host - flakey

2009-03-13 Thread Pablo Sanchez
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [vbox-users] 2.1.4 - Networking between Guest and Host - flakey Date: Friday 06 March 2009 @ 7:14 am From: Pablo Sanchez pa...@blueoakdb.com To: vbox-users@virtualbox.org cc: Howdy, My environment is as follows: o Host O/S: openSUSE

Re: [vbox-users] 2.1.4 - Networking between Guest and Host - flakey

2009-03-10 Thread Pablo Sanchez
Hi, I haven't heard anything on the following ... I thought perhaps it fell through the cracks. :) On Friday 06 March 2009 at 7:14 am, Pablo Sanchez penned about [vbox-users] 2.1.4 - Networking between Guest and Host - flakey Howdy, My environment is as follows: o Host O/S

[vbox-users] 2.1.4 - Networking between Guest and Host - flakey

2009-03-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
to reproduce it consistently. It appears when I tunnel HTTP traffic but I'm not sure if that's the case. Thoughts? -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

2009-03-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
sees about 5MB/s. Any ideas? Hi Brian, Try the same test and while simultaneously running `sar -d 3 1000' Post the output of `sar -d' while your benchmark is running. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

2009-03-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
are on XFS and FWIW, they do very well. If there's interest, I can collect some metrics and post them. Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph:819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

2009-03-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Friday 06 March 2009 at 2:59 pm, Brian J. Murrell penned about Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 12:05 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: Ditto, as always and as should be. :-) :) - don't get me started. :p Hi Pablo, Hi

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

2009-03-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 03:48:20 PM dev8-32 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 03:48:20 PM dev8-33 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

2009-03-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Friday 06 March 2009 at 4:40 pm, Brian J. Murrell penned about Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 15:59 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: In my experience, performance is throttled by CPU or Disk. This is why I asked to see

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

2009-03-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Friday 06 March 2009 at 4:50 pm, Pablo Sanchez penned about Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native Have you `strace' the VirtualBox process? Hi Brian, I `strace'd my VirtualBox process and I'm attaching it for your comparison. What I can see

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

2009-03-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Friday 06 March 2009 at 5:21 pm, Pablo Sanchez penned about Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native I suspect `select()' must be busted on your platform for some reason. Or VirtualBox is using some other mechanism to relinqish the processor

Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native

2009-03-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Friday 06 March 2009 at 5:01 pm, Brian J. Murrell penned about Re: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 16:50 -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: Have you `strace' the VirtualBox process? Not yet. My experience with strace

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