[vbox-users] Strange hangs on AMD Opteron 2216

2009-02-06 Thread fcassia
Hi, If I try to run Windows 7 and another Linux 2.6 OS, both with AMD-V enabled in the Advanced options, eventually at some point I lose mouse focus (the mouse cursor hangs inside the Linux VM, keyboard becomes unresponsive). The rest of the system keeps working (host is Linux, Fedora 10 with

[vbox-users] How to exit seamless mode?

2009-02-05 Thread fcassia
Stupid Q What is the way to exit seamless mode?. I managed to get my copy of Win7 beta into seamless mode and I can't bring back windowed mode. This should be easier ie GLOWING button on the systray to switch back and forth. and what's the point of the guest additions icon in the systray if

[vbox-users] VMWare feels the heat from Virtualbox, goes LGPL

2009-02-05 Thread fcassia
http://ostatic.com/blog/vmware-saw-the-threat-releases-open-source-virtualization-client I couldn't help myself and added a bit of advocacy on my comment. :-) Shame on me. FC -- Dream of the Daily Mail It is the Holy Grail And then the BBC Your life would be complete -Manic Street Preachers,

[vbox-users] (this is not spam) History on Vmware and its current boss

2009-02-05 Thread fcassia
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/843/1050843/vmware-boss-taste-ms-medicine FC ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

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

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Robin Green gree...@greenrd.org wrote: Any good operating system lets you control the hardware clock. So you can control it within the VM just as you would normally. No I meant on a per-application basis. So that the rest of the system can have the correct time

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

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:04 PM, fcassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2009, fcassia wrote: I have invested a lot of time and effort in getting certain beta software working. :-) I wonder if it'd

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

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:06 PM, fcassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: Datefudge perhaps? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=429467 This looks better. Sorry for answering myself. Libfaketime - Changing what time a process thinks it is http://www.linux.com/feature/147801 FC

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

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2009, fcassia wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2009, fcassia wrote: I have invested a lot of time and effort

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

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Graham Campbell gc1...@optonline.net wrote: Guys, Think about the implications for a file system if system time is not monotonic increasing. Graham In a properly designed OS there shold be no consequence. I can go in XP or Linux and adjust the clock 4500

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

2009-02-04 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: 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

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

2009-02-03 Thread fcassia
I have invested a lot of time and effort in getting certain beta software working. :-) I wonder if it'd be possible to have Virtualbox lie the date (hardware clock) to the VM so it's always operating on the same date? Thanks, FC ___ vbox-users mailing

[vbox-users] Virtualize existing system/BIOS ?

2009-01-27 Thread fcassia
Hi, I have one old notebook which is months from breaking apart. I'd like to save the working WinXP system I have there, so I'm thinking of creating a VM of the physical disk. What would be the recommended procedure?. The last time I used disk imaging was around 2002 and the tool ATM was

Re: [vbox-users] Repository for openSUSE Hosts?

2009-01-23 Thread fcassia
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: We could indeed do this. This is quite easy for .debs but actually I'm not sure about the various rpm distributions. Is there any documentation available on how to set up such a repository? Kind regards, Frank --

Re: [vbox-users] Run VirtualBox as a service in Windows

2009-01-23 Thread fcassia
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Pablo Sanchez pa...@blueoakdb.com wrote: On Friday 23 January 2009 at 9:56 am, Brett Serkez penned about Re: [vbox-users] Run VirtualBox as a service in Windows To clarify, in this alternative the idea would be that would run the GUI exactly as you do

[vbox-users] Best settings for 98se?

2009-01-22 Thread fcassia
I had one Vbox VM with Win98SE working acceptably. One day, I started the VM and it wouldn't boot. It'd just freeze at the win98 boot logo (the scrolling color pattern at bottom of the screen would stop). So I selected safe mode. And it booted OK. Then I rebooted, same hang. Then I started

Re: [vbox-users] Repository for openSUSE Hosts?

2009-01-22 Thread fcassia
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Johannes Kastl ojka...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, each time a new version of VirtualBox is released, I think I should ask this question, but up to now I never had the time to: Would it be possible to setup a repository not only for Debian-based distros, but also

Re: [vbox-users] Run VirtualBox as a service in Windows

2009-01-22 Thread fcassia
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Brett Serkez bser...@gmail.com wrote: Jakob, Did you consider the VBoxVmService before using Visual Studio? Without Visual Studio, this solution isn't an option. I was wondering if anyone has another other options? I was wondering if anyone else felt that

[vbox-users] Win98 vs AMD-V ... the plot thickens...

2009-01-22 Thread fcassia
Hi, There's a problem with my Win98 VM in the sense that the only way I seem to be able to boot Win98 succesfully is by DISABLING ACPI DISABLING IO APIC DISABLING AMD-V DISABLING PAE-NX I really wouldn't mind disabling the first three, but disabling AMD-V means that I can no longer run any other

Re: [vbox-users] Run VirtualBox as a service in Windows

2009-01-20 Thread fcassia
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Oster, Bradley C CTR SAF/FMP (AFFSO) bradley.os...@wpafb.af.mil wrote: I have setup VirtualBox on a Windows server on our network and the only way I can access the server is through remote desktop. I have been looking at trying to get it to run as a service but

Re: [vbox-users] Windows 7 public beta (x64) under 32-bit Linux host working fine, so far!

2009-01-19 Thread fcassia
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: On 19 Jan Andreas - Sun Microsystems, Inc. wrote: Official Windows 7 Guest Additions support will be available in the next upcoming release of VirtualBox (which will be out pretty soon). Although the Guest Additions work

Re: [vbox-users] writing video DVD from Virtual Box?

2009-01-12 Thread fcassia
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:05 AM, Bill Shannon bill.shan...@sun.com wrote: Frank Mehnert wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2009, Bill Shannon wrote: Does passthrough work in 2.0.x? Yes, check out 2.0.6. I tried 2.0.6. It didn't work any better. Yes, I enabled passthrough. Has anyone actually

Re: [vbox-users] Bug: multiple vbox GUI instances, WHY?

2009-01-11 Thread fcassia
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Amit k. Saha amitsaha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: Question: why is it possible to open several instances of the Virtualbox GUI? What is the purpose?. I often end up clickin on the virtualbox

[vbox-users] Windows 7 public beta (x64) under 32-bit Linux host working fine, so far!

2009-01-10 Thread fcassia
GREAT news... I've been using Windows 7 (public beta) **, in the 64-bit version under VirtualBox 2.1.0 Even the VirtualBox guest additions work OK, provided you right click on the 64-bit installer, and select Compatibility Troubleshooter. An ugly dialog comes up, sort of a black box magician

[vbox-users] ReactOS vmdk not working, any ideas?

2009-01-07 Thread fcassia
Hi, The latest greatest Virtualbox (2.1.0) allows using Vmware format disk image (.vmdk files). However, I downloaded the latest greatest ReactOS VMWare disk image (version 0.3.7) and tried to use it with VirtualBox, to no avail, it stops (hangs) at the ReactOS logo. I tried changing OS type

Re: [vbox-users] ReactOS vmdk not working, any ideas?

2009-01-07 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:06 AM, David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2009 10:46:24 fcassia wrote: Hi, The latest greatest Virtualbox (2.1.0) allows using Vmware format disk image (.vmdk files). However, I downloaded the latest greatest ReactOS VMWare disk image

Re: [vbox-users] ReactOS vmdk not working, any ideas?

2009-01-07 Thread fcassia
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Анатолий Тютин eastma...@gmail.com wrote: What is the host machine OS? 32-bit Linux (Fedora 10) FC ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

Re: [vbox-users] Idea: delete pagefile on VM power down?

2009-01-05 Thread fcassia
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:03 AM, fcassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be possible to add code to Virtualbox so, when a Windows VM is shut down, the last thing VBox does, after the VM has been effectively disabled,is to delete the pagefile from the VM's virtual disk? Nevermind Windows

Re: [vbox-users] Idea: delete pagefile on VM power down?

2009-01-05 Thread fcassia
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin paul.gilmar...@sun.com wrote: On Jan 5, 2009, at 01:20, fcassia wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:03 AM, fcassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be possible to add code to Virtualbox so, when a Windows VM is shut down, the last thing VBox does

[vbox-users] Win64 crashes... asked twice...

2009-01-03 Thread fcassia
I have asked twice but -perhaps due to the holidays- didnt get any reply ... A Windows XP 64 -integrated SP1- install crashes Virtualbox 2.1.0 after the XP launches the installer this was tested both on Fedora Core 6 (32-bit) and Fedora 10 (32-bit), on a 64-bit AMD Opteron 2210 with AMD-V

Re: [vbox-users] Win64 crashes... asked twice...

2009-01-03 Thread fcassia
...@sun.com wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2009, fcassia wrote: I have asked twice but -perhaps due to the holidays- didnt get any reply ... A Windows XP 64 -integrated SP1- install crashes Virtualbox 2.1.0 after the XP launches the installer this was tested both on Fedora Core 6 (32-bit

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

2008-12-30 Thread fcassia
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 will be logged to

[vbox-users] Confirmed: VBox 2.1.0 crashes when installing XP64 SP1 on 32-bit Linux host os

2008-12-30 Thread fcassia
I finally updated my aging FC6 system to Fedora 10. I thought it'd make a difference wrt the running of 64-bit guests on a 32-bit host. It doesn't. It crashes at the same exact point. So whom do I send the .log file to? FC ___ vbox-users mailing list

[vbox-users] XP64 SP1 crashes on 32-bit host OS (AMD opteron CPU)

2008-12-29 Thread fcassia
Okay, I have Vbox 2.1.0 System is running Fedora Core 6 (will update soon to 10) uname -a Linux doscabezas 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 #1 SMP Tue Apr 10 18:46:45 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux I have tried to create a 64-bit VM on a 32-bit host OS. CPU is AMD Opteron dual-core It crashes while the

Re: [vbox-users] disconnect gui from running machine?

2008-12-20 Thread fcassia
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Randal T. Rioux ra...@procyonlabs.com wrote: Most kids don't use VirtualBox on their toys, as long as iTunes works all is well. Shouldn't be too big a problem. /macs are overpriced and made for elementary schools //flame on You made my day Randal. :-)))

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.0 released!

2008-12-19 Thread fcassia
Frank, Very exciting release. It's good to see VBox growing by leaps and bounds and challenging that other VMW thing. However, by looking at the manual I don't get the meaning of this: If you want to use 64-bit guest support on a 32-bit host operating system, you must also select a 64-bit

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.0 released!

2008-12-19 Thread fcassia
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: Please note that you need AMD-V (or VT-x with Intel CPUs) in any case if you want to use 64-bit guests. It does not matter if your CPU is 32-bit or 64-bit. Sorry, I fear your CPU will not support 64-bit guests.

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.0 released!

2008-12-19 Thread fcassia
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Alexey Eremenko al4...@gmail.com wrote: Mobile Core 1 CPU also known as Core Solo and Core Duo I stopped caring about cpu internals at the time of the MOS6502. On the PC, I always cared only about helping with my money to the smallest, most competitive vendors.