Re: VirtualBox

2009-09-23 Thread Clyde McLennan
supposed to be on menus are not there. This is particularly true of the VirtualBox Manager, which I'm having difficulty activating. (I need it to increase RAM allocation so I can try seamless mode). There is something about USB handling to in the VB Manager as well. So I'll

Re: VirtualBox

2009-09-23 Thread Clyde McLennan
Again, copy and paste will work when you install the guest additions. From my experience, drag and drop is not supported between host and guest in virtualbox. (d) Have set up two shared folders (these are already shared in my Parallels system). Windows Explorer did not recogni

Re: VirtualBox

2009-09-22 Thread Clyde McLennan
vel stuff I need to do, but I get the impression that the manual may be an older version to the software that I have. Screen images etc are different, and things that are supposed to be on menus are not there. This is particularly true of the VirtualBox Manager, which I'm having difficu

Re: VirtualBox

2009-09-22 Thread David
etween the iMac and the VM system doesn't > work.  Similarly, click and drag from one system to the other has no effect. Again, copy and paste will work when you install the guest additions. >From my experience, drag and drop is not supported between host and guest in virtualbox. >  

Re: VirtualBox

2009-09-22 Thread Clyde McLennan
recognise them at all (maybe operator error). (e) Like you, I didn't have much joy with USB sticks - didn't recognise them. So at this stage my feelings are: (a) As someone else said - remember that this VirtualBox is free. So if you just want to run the occasional application a

Re: VirtualBox

2009-09-22 Thread Philippe Chaperon
that > suggestion. > >   Thanks for the help - at this stage I will stick with Parallels, but I was > keen to try the VirtualBox, but can do without it. > >    Cheers  ... Clyde > > > > On 22/09/2009, at 10:43 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> >> >> On

Re: VirtualBox

2009-09-21 Thread Clyde McLennan
tick with Parallels, but I was keen to try the VirtualBox, but can do without it. Cheers ... Clyde On 22/09/2009, at 10:43 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 22/09/2009, at 9:22 AM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Clyde, 2009/9/22 Clyde McLennan : Following on from the helpful discussion and comment

Re: VirtualBox

2009-09-21 Thread Ronda Brown
On 22/09/2009, at 9:22 AM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Clyde, 2009/9/22 Clyde McLennan : Following on from the helpful discussion and comments about the three VM programs, I thought I would try the free one, VirtualBox. No problem installing virtualbox, but didn't get far insta

Re: VirtualBox

2009-09-21 Thread Bill Parker
needed it to get into a NON mac government wesbite. Bill On 22/09/2009, at 9:22 AM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Clyde, 2009/9/22 Clyde McLennan : Following on from the helpful discussion and comments about the three VM programs, I thought I would try the free one, VirtualBox. No problem

Re: VirtualBox

2009-09-21 Thread James Devenish
Hi Clyde, 2009/9/22 Clyde McLennan : > Following on from the helpful discussion and comments about the three VM > programs, I thought I would try the free one, VirtualBox. > No problem installing virtualbox, but didn't get far installing windows > XP. Came unstuck during

VirtualBox

2009-09-21 Thread Clyde McLennan
Hi, Following on from the helpful discussion and comments about the three VM programs, I thought I would try the free one, VirtualBox. No problem installing virtualbox, but didn't get far installing windows XP. Came unstuck during the installation when it asked me to pre

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

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

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

Re: Virtualbox [was VMware]

2008-09-16 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 16/09/2008, at 9:22 AM, Dudley Gager wrote: I have just installed XP Pro under Bootcamp and was considering VM Fusion. If I go with Virtualbox instead, and it looks very attractive, does that mean I need to ininstall Bootcamp and start from scratch with Virtualbox. I want to keep