Re: Sun's VirtualBox

2009-05-10 Thread Philippe Chaperon
/5/10 Bill Parker : > > On 10/05/2009, at 5:01 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: > >>       WAMUG Mailing List Digest #2100 >> 1) Sun's VirtualBox >>   by laut...@westnet.com.au >> 2) Re: Sun's VirtualBox >>   by James Devenish >> >> 9) Re: Sun&

Re: Sun's VirtualBox

2009-05-09 Thread Bill Parker
On 10/05/2009, at 5:01 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote: WAMUG Mailing List Digest #2100 1) Sun's VirtualBox by laut...@westnet.com.au 2) Re: Sun's VirtualBox by James Devenish 9) Re: Sun's VirtualBox by Philippe Chaperon Subject: Sun's VirtualBox X-Mailer:

Re: Sun's VirtualBox

2009-05-09 Thread Philippe Chaperon
Hi James, Many thanks for your report on VirtualBox. I have finished my installation and am glad to report all is working wonderfully well. For good measure I downloaded AVG-free edition which installed without any problems and was able to update the virus definition files. I must admit that it is

Re: Sun's VirtualBox

2009-05-09 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi James, Did you install the Guest Additions? My mouse tracking is identical to the host OS once the guest additions are installed. BTW, with VirtualBox 2.2 and the 3d acceleration (directx 9 and OpenGL) and seemless mode I can't really see any reason to use another Virtualization product. On S

Re: Sun's VirtualBox

2009-05-08 Thread James Devenish
Hi, I use VirtualBox to run both Windows and Linux, no complaints, except (cosmetically) that the Windows desktop background sometimes shows through in seamless mode, and (reasonably) it is sometimes necessary to update VirtualBox after updating the hosted operating system. USB support is not alwa

Sun's VirtualBox

2009-05-08 Thread lautrey
Dear WAMUG'ers, Wonder if there are some of us who have installed Sun's Virtualbox on their Intel Macs and what has been the result. For the fun of it I have installed it on a FW400 external drive using XP Home Edition, and although it took me 3 or 4 tries to understand the insta