[vbox-dev] windows shared folders source code?

2008-06-12 Thread Huihong Luo
Hi, nbsp; Inbsp;am anbsp;windows kernel driver developer, and wanted to see if I can improve the windows shared folders addition. But when I looked at the open source, couldn't find the code? can anyone tell me where it is? nbsp; I wanted to check if the guest shared folder file system driver

Re: [vbox-dev] host calling into vm for async I/O?

2008-07-15 Thread Huihong Luo
. Sander Huihong Luo wrote: Are there any APIs that can invoke vm's functions from host (opposite to VbglHGCMCall which does vm to host calls)? I am trying to implement directory change notification features on windows shared folders. Basically, when files change in a host folder, I want

Re: [vbox-dev] VBOX_HGCM_REQ_CANCELLED returned?

2008-08-01 Thread Huihong Luo
Hi,   I am trying to do a guest addition driver to traverse the host folders, (similar to VBoxSF). Sometimes, when traversing a large folder (e.g., c:\windows\system32), I got an error code from VbglHGCMCall() with VERR_VBGL_IOCTL_FAILED.   I digged a bit into the VBoxGuest.sys, and found out

[vbox-dev] AMD 64 build instructions?

2008-10-17 Thread Huihong Luo
Any documents on building amd64 on Windows? I tried it on, but it uses 32-bit as default target even when compiling on amd64 PCs. Any simple instructions? Thanks, Huihong ___ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-dev] Announce: VirtualBox 2.0.6 released!

2008-11-24 Thread Huihong Luo
, Frank Mehnert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Frank Mehnert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Announce: VirtualBox 2.0.6 released! To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008, 10:58 PM On Sunday 23 November 2008, Josh Wright wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Huihong Luo

Re: [vbox-dev] Announce: VirtualBox 2.0.6 released!

2008-11-24 Thread Huihong Luo
released! To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 11:55 AM On Monday 24 November 2008, Huihong Luo wrote: So there is no direct association between the Sun release and svn revision?   then, any advantange working on svn? Or just wait a release, and compile the tarball? I

Re: [vbox-dev] Can vbox run host bios?

2008-11-30 Thread Huihong Luo
a new subject. Don't press 'Reply' in you mailing application. Regarding your question: On Sunday 30 November 2008, Huihong Luo wrote: I was wondering if vbox can use host bios directly? rather than the vbox specific version. Is there any reason why host bios wouldn't work? if it's fully emulated

Re: [vbox-dev] Can vbox run host bios?

2008-12-01 Thread Huihong Luo
the current f for bios code, e for DMI), then all OEM XPs can be activated easily, as most oem require a string above f area.   Huihong --- On Sun, 11/30/08, Huihong Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Huihong Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Can vbox run host bios

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

2008-12-17 Thread Huihong Luo
Hi,   Can you point out what svn revision # is this release roughly based on?   I'd like to check out the code from svn. (as you mentioned before, I know the source code is provided as tar ball from the download.)   Thanks,   Huihong --- On Wed, 12/17/08, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com

[vbox-dev] NAT/slirp issue?

2008-12-18 Thread Huihong Luo
I have a windows xp host PC that has two network interfaces, one is for internal local network without internet connection, the other can connect to internet. These two interfaces have 2 different IPs.   Somehow, vbox vm (configured as NAT) running on this pc can NOT browse any internet

[vbox-dev] high cpu usage after hibernate mode

2009-01-22 Thread Huihong Luo
Somtimes, I noted that vbox uses rather high cpu (50%) on windows host. The steps:   run vbox with an XP vm, check host cpu use, which is very low (5%), then hibernate the windows host. After Windows resumes from hibernate mode, the host cpu use is now much higher, about 50%.   Interestingly,

[vbox-dev] Windows 2003 sp1 checked build not working in vbox

2009-01-24 Thread Huihong Luo
, 2003R2/Vista/Windows7 etc., all works fine.   Huihong Luo  ___ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev

Re: [vbox-dev] Windows 2003 sp1 checked build not working in vbox

2009-01-25 Thread Huihong Luo
far.One of the drivers triggers an assertion as can be seen from the bug check message. Huihong Luo wrote: I tried a few times install Windows 2003 sp1 Enterprise Checked build into vbox, but it failed during installation. BSOD of bugcheck code of 7E appeared after 1st reboot during

Re: [vbox-dev] Windows 2003 sp1 checked build not working in vbox

2009-01-25 Thread Huihong Luo
More speicifically, I got that BSOD error after reboots, even before windbg can be attached. From the message, you can see Shutdown occured, then BSOD, so debugger was still waiting for connection. --- On Sun, 1/25/09, Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com

Re: [vbox-dev] How to debug on Windows?

2009-02-05 Thread Huihong Luo
you can use the following command line to debug:   devenv.exe /debugexe virtualbox.exe -startvm {vm-guid}   the vm guid can be found from the xml file.   Inside vs.net, you can open any source file, and set a breakpoint.   Another way is to launch a vm first, then attach to the process.   Huihong

[vbox-dev] vbox is 2x slower than KVM? (according to Linux Format magizine)

2009-02-13 Thread Huihong Luo
The Feburary Linux Format magizine has a cover story Virtualize Now. It goes recommending VirtualBox due to the many features from vbox. However, it has one sentence saying VirtualBox is about 50% of KVM's performance.   How could it be possible? considering the similar artichetures (both are

[vbox-dev] mini-toolbar on full screen mode?

2009-03-27 Thread Huihong Luo
I was wondering if there are plans to implement a toolbar on full screen mode? So a user can use toolbar to switch, rather than hot keys.   If no such plan, i would like to spend some time implementing that feature, at least on Windows? Any suggestions on how to do that in the right way?   I am

[vbox-dev] disk i/o optimization info

2009-04-09 Thread Huihong Luo
Hi,   I'd like to understand more on how carefully vbox virtual disk is designed to achieve high performance. Can someone shed some lights?  (I know i could digg into the source code)   These are some of my rough ideas, pls correct me:   (1) fixed look up time. When disk i/o arrives, it will

[vbox-dev] VbglR3GuestPropWait() not working well after hibernation

2009-05-04 Thread Huihong Luo
Hi,   I am developing an addin inside windows XP guest, the addin uses VbglR3GuestPropWait() to wait for some property to arrive from host.   If the vm is hibernated, it does not seem to alway work. I did try to reconnect every time before the wait, but still no luck.   When vm is hibernated, my

Re: [vbox-dev] VbglR3GuestPropWait() not working well after hibernation

2009-05-06 Thread Huihong Luo
waiting process never returns.   - Huihong --- On Wed, 5/6/09, Michael Thayer michael.tha...@sun.com wrote: From: Michael Thayer michael.tha...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] VbglR3GuestPropWait() not working well after hibernation To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-dev] How to get the current running IMachine instance inside a host service?

2009-05-08 Thread Huihong Luo
...@gmail.com wrote: From: Armindo Silva deathon2l...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] How to get the current running IMachine instance inside a host service? To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Friday, May 8, 2009, 6:27 AM On linux hosts: $ ps aux | grep -i virtual

Re: [vbox-dev] How to get the current running IMachine instance inside a host service?

2009-05-08 Thread Huihong Luo
I? --- On Fri, 5/8/09, Josh Wright jshwri...@gmail.com wrote: From: Josh Wright jshwri...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] How to get the current running IMachine instance inside a host service? To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Friday, May 8, 2009, 3:03 PM

Re: [vbox-dev] How to get the current running IMachine instance inside a host service?

2009-05-11 Thread Huihong Luo
on windows later on   Huihong --- On Mon, 5/11/09, Michael Thayer michael.tha...@sun.com wrote: From: Michael Thayer michael.tha...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] How to get the current running IMachine instance inside a host service? To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: Josh Wright jshwri

Re: [vbox-dev] How to get the current running IMachine instance inside a host service?

2009-05-11 Thread Huihong Luo
a vm name.   Huihong --- On Mon, 5/11/09, Michael Thayer michael.tha...@sun.com wrote: From: Michael Thayer michael.tha...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] How to get the current running IMachine instance inside a host service? To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date

Re: [vbox-dev] How to get the current running IMachine instance inside a host service?

2009-05-12 Thread Huihong Luo
...@sun.com wrote: From: Michael Thayer michael.tha...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] How to get the current running IMachine instance inside a host service? To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 5:40 AM Hello Huihong, Huihong Luo wrote: You

[vbox-dev] mouse capture inside vm for dnd (drop and drop)?

2009-05-13 Thread Huihong Luo
We are trying to implement drag and drop from host to guest, and get stuck on it.   We figured how to accept drops and send the data to VBoxTray.exe running in guest vm. The problem is how to continue the drag and drop operations inside vm? We need to tell VBoxTray to initiate the drag

Re: [vbox-dev] mouse capture inside vm for dnd (drag and drop)?

2009-05-13 Thread Huihong Luo
for dnd (drop and drop)? To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 3:36 AM Huihong, maybe you could install a separate mouse hook for doing this? In order to hide the guest mouse pointer when its outside the guest window we're using a mouse

[vbox-dev] Multiple-thread apartment (MTA) conflicts with OLE drag/drop?

2009-05-15 Thread Huihong Luo
Seems this is a known issue on windows host, any ideas to fix it?   Currently, VirtualBox.exe requires MTA to operate correctly, but OLE Drag/Drop requires Single-thread apartment (STA) threading model.   I tried a few things for a few days, but not working. With STA, virtualbox.exe accepts ole

Re: [vbox-dev] Full screen mini toolbar implemented

2009-05-18 Thread Huihong Luo
toolbar implemented To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 4:07 AM On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 15:04, Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com wrote: I added a mini toolbar to the full screen mode. The toolbar can auto hide. Since it uses QT 4, I suppose

Re: [vbox-dev] vhd format not stable?

2009-06-11 Thread Huihong Luo
? On Thursday 11 June 2009, Huihong Luo wrote: It seems VHD format is not stable as VDI. VBoxSVC.exe pretty much always crashes when a snapshot is being discarded. I am running an XP guest on Vista host. The VHD's capacity is over 100G. If you look at the following stack, the crash was caused

Re: [vbox-dev] Build details of Virtual box sources

2009-06-14 Thread Huihong Luo
Yes, I had to modify several places of the .kmk files in order to make it to compile on Windows. On Mac, also need to modify some make files.   On linux, nothing needs to be done. --- On Sun, 6/14/09, Suren Reddy sureng.re...@gmail.com wrote: From: Suren Reddy sureng.re...@gmail.com Subject:

[vbox-dev] vhd crash bug

2009-06-14 Thread Huihong Luo
I found another critical issue in VHDHDDCore.cpp   static int vhdRead(void *pBackendData, uint64_t uOffset, void *pvBuf, size_t cbRead, size_t *pcbActuallyRead) {     do {    cSectors++;    iBitmap = iBATEntryIndexCurr / 8; /* Byte in the block bitmap. */    iBitInByte = (8 - 1) -

Re: [vbox-dev] vhd crash bug

2009-06-15 Thread Huihong Luo
14.06.2009, 15:38 -0700 schrieb Huihong Luo: I found another critical issue in VHDHDDCore.cpp   static int vhdRead(void *pBackendData, uint64_t uOffset, void *pvBuf, size_t cbRead, size_t *pcbActuallyRead) {     do {     cSectors++;     iBitmap = iBATEntryIndexCurr / 8; /* Byte in the block

Re: [vbox-dev] vhd format not stable?

2009-06-15 Thread Huihong Luo
: Alexander Eichner alexander.eich...@sun.com          Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] vhd format not stable?          To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com          Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org          Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 12:05 PM                    Great I will commit the fix if your tests are successful

[vbox-dev] another vhd snapshot discard crash bug

2009-06-21 Thread Huihong Luo
++ --- On Wed, 6/10/09, Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Subject: vhd format not stable? To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 4:52 PM It seems VHD format is not stable as VDI. VBoxSVC.exe pretty much always crashes when a snapshot

[vbox-dev] GUI: minor issue on mini toolbar after live snapshot taking

2009-06-22 Thread Huihong Luo
the mini toolbar is not correctly resized. The Restore and Close button are no longer visible after a live snapshot is taken while vm is running.___ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev

Re: [vbox-dev] GUI: minor issue on mini toolbar after live snapshot taking

2009-06-22 Thread Huihong Luo
@virtualbox.org Date: Monday, June 22, 2009, 3:22 AM On Monday 22 June 2009, Huihong Luo wrote: the mini toolbar is not correctly resized. The Restore and Close button are no longer visible after a live snapshot is taken while vm is running. Thanks for the report! Should be fixed in SVN, see   http

Re: [vbox-dev] vhd format not stable?

2009-06-22 Thread Huihong Luo
, On Friday 19 June 2009, Huihong Luo wrote: I tested it again, but it still crashed.   I think I now found the cause, it's quite delicate, but you should be able to fix it right away. a8bd6ffd ff ff ff ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??   The above is the bitmap when crashed. You can

Re: [vbox-dev] QT version and sources download location?

2009-06-24 Thread Huihong Luo
u need compile QT4.5, or just use the binary download http://get.qtsoftware.com/qt/source/qt-win-opensource-src-4.5.1.zip --- On Wed, 6/24/09, Suren R Gundumalla sureng.re...@gmail.com wrote: From: Suren R Gundumalla sureng.re...@gmail.com Subject: [vbox-dev] QT version and sources download

[vbox-dev] diff for configure.vbs for 64 build

2009-07-01 Thread Huihong Luo
Spent some time debugging in building amd64 on windows.   There is a mistake in configure.vbs file, without this fix, win.x86 will be built even if on amd64 windows box.   I attached the diff file, pls make the correction.   There are other issues on building the recompiler on windows, debugging

Re: [vbox-dev] diff for configure.vbs for 64 build

2009-07-01 Thread Huihong Luo
] diff for configure.vbs for 64 build To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 1:53 PM Hi, On Wednesday 01 July 2009, Huihong Luo wrote: Spent some time debugging in building amd64 on windows.   There is a mistake in configure.vbs file, without this fix, win.x86 will be built

Re: [vbox-dev] Minitoolbar and Interface requests/sugestions

2009-07-06 Thread Huihong Luo
for item 1), if you can compile the src, you can easily chang this line in VBoxConsoleWnd.cpp   mMiniToolBar = new VBoxMiniToolBar (centralWidget(), VBoxMiniToolBar::AlignTop, isActive, isAutoHide); VBoxMiniToolBar::AlignTop VBoxMiniToolBar::AlignBottom   controls where to display the toolbar, I

[vbox-dev] minor GUI issue

2009-07-07 Thread Huihong Luo
Those links inside texts:   (1) mVmDetailsView-setDetailsText (2) QILabel   don't seem to work on Windows XP. Case (1) gives error Make sure your desktop can handle this type of URL. Case (2) simply ignores the click of url, no response.   I installed the lastest vbox on a few XP host PCs,

Re: [vbox-dev] host and bridged network driver no longer in OSE?

2009-07-07 Thread Huihong Luo
frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: From: Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] host and bridged network driver no longer in OSE? To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 8:36 AM On Thursday 04 June 2009, Frank Mehnert wrote: On Monday 04 May 2009, Huihong Luo wrote: I

Re: [vbox-dev] host and bridged network driver no longer in OSE?

2009-07-07 Thread Huihong Luo
2009, Huihong Luo wrote: Sweet. Thanks for the great support to the open source community!   Some files seem to be missing:   (1) src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetFlt/win/notifyobj/VBoxNetFltNotify.rc (2) seems still no VBoxNetAdp.sys for windows, not sure if this is also exported. --- On Tue, 7

Re: [vbox-dev] Is gcc 3.3.x really necessary to compile the recompiler?

2009-07-15 Thread Huihong Luo
,   Huihong --- On Tue, 7/14/09, Nikolay Igotti nikolay.igo...@sun.com wrote: From: Nikolay Igotti nikolay.igo...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Is gcc 3.3.x really necessary to compile the recompiler? To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: VirtualBox developer's list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date

[vbox-dev] recompiler msvc port

2009-07-16 Thread Huihong Luo
] Is gcc 3.3.x really necessary to compile the recompiler? To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: VirtualBox developer's list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 2:26 AM     Hi Huihong, Don't think MSVC compilation can be easily done (C compiler in MSVC also don't support C99, whose

[vbox-dev] VMMDevHGCMParmType_LinAddr_Locked_Out problem with latest ose svn (21573)

2009-07-19 Thread Huihong Luo
VMMDevHGCMParmType_LinAddr_Locked_Out seems to be NOT working in VbglHGCMCall(), which throws -3302 error.   The code a few days ago (July-09-09) worked fine. This affects only guest additions.___ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-dev] Launch error

2009-07-30 Thread Huihong Luo
you may want to install the official  binary from virtualbox.org, then start to put your own dlls built from src. This way, you can identify which dlls are causing the issues.   e.g., try to use VBoxREM32.dll from official binary, and see if that fixes the problem.   You can switch between your

[vbox-dev] Vista UAC problems

2009-08-03 Thread Huihong Luo
On Vista or Windows 7, when UAC is on   (1) Launch one VirtualBox as Administrator, and start a vm. (2) Launch another VirtualBox as normal (UAC), and try to create a vm.   Sometimes, it will throw permission denied errors in modifying virtualbox.xml file.   The problem is that two VBoxSVC.exe

Re: [vbox-dev] Error building 22110

2009-08-09 Thread Huihong Luo
This seems to be a very old problem. I think you need to delete the obj directory from the build output dir, then do the new build. --- On Sun, 8/9/09, André Neves andrechale...@gmail.com wrote: From: André Neves andrechale...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Error building 22110 To:

[vbox-dev] can't take any snapshots with latest svn 22188

2009-08-12 Thread Huihong Luo
subject says it all___ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev

Re: [vbox-dev] Vista UAC problems

2009-08-12 Thread Huihong Luo
can modify it. --- On Wed, 8/12/09, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: From: Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Vista UAC problems To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 12:13 AM Hi, On Monday 03 August 2009, Huihong Luo wrote: On Vista

[vbox-dev] random crashes with latest svn 22214

2009-08-12 Thread Huihong Luo
Quite a lot of crashes when running a vm, for example:   First-chance exception at 0x052d6728 (VBoxDD.dll) in VirtualBox.exe: 0xC005: Access violation reading location 0x0002. Unhandled exception at 0x052d6728 (VBoxDD.dll) in VirtualBox.exe: 0xC005: Access violation reading

[vbox-dev] shared folders disappearing?

2009-08-14 Thread Huihong Luo
Sometimes, I noticed shared folders are all gone, not sure if this is something reproducible. When I examine the machine settings xml files, shared folders become empty, although no manual removal has been done, and folders are added as permernant.___

[vbox-dev] No delete via SetExtraData() set to QString::null ?

2009-08-14 Thread Huihong Luo
it seems set the extra data to empty string, instead of deleting it   for example,   cmachine.SetExtraData (VBoxDefs::GUI_FirstRun, QString::null);   inside xml:   ExtraDataItem name=GUI/FirstVMLiteRun value= / ___ vbox-dev mailing list

[vbox-dev] a process crash bug

2009-08-17 Thread Huihong Luo
Sometimes, the virtualbox gui crashes when a hard disk is deleted from media dialog. see the following call stack. (in amd64 host), happens also on 32-bit host   seems crashed from VBoxMediaManagerDLg.cpp line 1441,   Unhandled exception at 0x6709d624 in VirtualBox.exe: 0xC005: Access

[vbox-dev] vm failed to start from saved state

2009-08-17 Thread Huihong Luo
The error message is something like this:   Failed to start the virtual machine vm1.   Failed to to load 'HGCM' (VERR_INVALID_PARAMETER)   Unable to restore the virtual machine's saved state from Please discard the saved state before starting the virtual

[vbox-dev] very old GUI bug: html links inside dialog box not working on XP

2009-08-17 Thread Huihong Luo
This is a very old one I reported before, should be very easy to fix.   html link does not work on Windows XP,   e.g., the auto update dialog, you can't click the link, can't copy the location, neither   Works fine on Vista/Windows7___ vbox-dev mailing

Re: [vbox-dev] a process crash bug

2009-08-23 Thread Huihong Luo
this application crashes happens when there is only one virtual disk --- On Sun, 8/16/09, Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Subject: a process crash bug To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 11:04 PM Sometimes, the virtualbox

Re: [vbox-dev] vm failed to start from saved state

2009-08-24 Thread Huihong Luo
, Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com wrote: From: Frank Mehnert frank.mehn...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] vm failed to start from saved state To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 12:44 PM On Monday 17 August 2009, Huihong Luo wrote: The error message is something like

Re: [vbox-dev] Best way to move a vm to another pc?

2009-08-25 Thread Huihong Luo
Thx, I will play with OVF. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:42 AM, Achim Hasenmueller ac...@sun.com wrote: That's what we created OVF support for. Achim. On Aug 25, 2009, at 8:45 , Huihong Luo wrote: In other words, can I simply move the xml files and virtual disk files

Re: [vbox-dev] installation bug from 2.0.2, always not corrected!

2009-08-25 Thread Huihong Luo
most likely, the installer bootstrap code is using ansi version. You can try to extract the installer exe, and get the .msi file, then install the msi file. If still not work, I can send you an OSE build to test.   VirtualBox3.0.4.exe -extract --- On Tue, 8/25/09, 瞿隆 qulong_0...@hotmail.com

[vbox-dev] FYI - VMLite XP Mode

2009-08-26 Thread Huihong Luo
http://www.vmlite.com   This is based on OSE that emulates Windows 7 XP Mode. If any of you are interested in testing it, pls let me know.   It also contains low level virtual disk mount (.vdi, .vhd, .vmdk) utilities and P2V/V2V commands. The P2V works very well on XP and above, it clones hard

[vbox-dev] GUI feature request

2009-09-08 Thread Huihong Luo
For OVF import, I wonder if can add a checkbox to tell whether or not clone the virtual disk. For large files, use it from original place is ideal___ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev

Re: [vbox-dev] GUI feature request

2009-09-09 Thread Huihong Luo
Hasenmueller ac...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] GUI feature request To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: Christian Pötzsch christian.poetz...@sun.com, vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 8:15 AM OVF is a very broad spec, it doesn't say much about the things that the OVF files

[vbox-dev] Can ACPI and IO APIC options be eliminated?

2009-09-14 Thread Huihong Luo
Any chance to remove them? and vbox does some kind of automatic check?   I noted that VMware and Virtua PC don't have these kind of options.   These two options always give me problems.   e.g., on a single vm with dual boot XP and Vista. Vista requires IO APIC whereas XP does not need it. So

[vbox-dev] about Hyper-V hypercall interface?

2009-09-15 Thread Huihong Luo
Not sure if this makes sene. I was wondering whether performance would be improved if vbox implements Hyper-V enlightenment interfaces?   Windows 7 (and later) is hypervisor aware. You can confirm this by checking the presence of winhv.sys, vmbus.sys, etc in system32\drivers dir. These drivers

Re: [vbox-dev] Best way to move a vm to another pc?

2009-09-19 Thread Huihong Luo
--- On Tue, 8/25/09, Achim Hasenmueller ac...@sun.com wrote: From: Achim Hasenmueller ac...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Best way to move a vm to another pc? To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 12:42 AM That's what we created OVF support

Re: [vbox-dev] Best way to move a vm to another pc?

2009-09-19 Thread Huihong Luo
@virtualbox.org Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 4:35 PM On 09/19/2009 09:29 AM, Huihong Luo wrote: This is a typical scenario: Use eSATA external harddisk to store a vm, and move it around a few different hosts for testing... Well, I might misunderstand your reasons for testing, but I think

[vbox-dev] VDCopy() fix for VHD

2009-10-07 Thread Huihong Luo
Can you guys add the following code to function VDCopy() in VBoxHDD.cpp? right before VDCreateBase() is called.   It resets the geometry if cSectors 63, VHD disk somehow has more than 63 sectors.     /* vmlite, fix converting error from VHD */ if (PCHSGeometryFrom.cHeads 16 ||

Re: [vbox-dev] VDCopy() fix for VHD

2009-10-07 Thread Huihong Luo
/7/09, Klaus Espenlaub klaus.espenl...@sun.com wrote: From: Klaus Espenlaub klaus.espenl...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] VDCopy() fix for VHD To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 2:02 PM Huihong Luo wrote: after the fix, VHD-VMDk

Re: [vbox-dev] change progress callback percent to float?

2009-10-08 Thread Huihong Luo
of percentage --- On Thu, 10/8/09, Klaus Espenlaub klaus.espenl...@sun.com wrote: From: Klaus Espenlaub klaus.espenl...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] VDCopy() fix for VHD, change progress callback percent to float? To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Thursday

[vbox-dev] writing to VHD/VDI is 50% slower of VMDK?

2009-10-12 Thread Huihong Luo
This seems to be always the case, writing a large amount of data to vdi/vhd is much much slower than writing to a vmdk disk.   I am using the the vboxddu.dll code, and clone physical disk to virtual disk.   for example, clone 250G takes about 2.50 hrs to  a vmdk file,  whereas it takes 4 hrs to

[vbox-dev] VHD not readable by Hyper-V

2009-10-12 Thread Huihong Luo
None of vbox created vhd disk files are readable by 2008 Hyper-V.   This is the error: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable   I am debugging through the code, trying to change Footer info, such as version, creator OS, checksun, etc., to see it can correct the error.   If you know

Re: [vbox-dev] Fwd: VHD not readable by Hyper-V

2009-10-13 Thread Huihong Luo
Entries These entries store an absolute byte offset in the file where the parent locator for a differencing hard disk is stored. This field is used only for differencing disks and should be set to zero for dynamic disks. --- On Tue, 10/13/09, Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Huihong

[vbox-dev] fixed - VHD not readable by Hyper-V

2009-10-13 Thread Huihong Luo
fixes should be very safe to check in, (not sure if it may break snapshots, though)   - hl --- On Tue, 10/13/09, Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Fwd: VHD not readable by Hyper-V To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org vbox-dev@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-dev] fixed - VHD not readable by Hyper-V

2009-10-15 Thread Huihong Luo
No problem. Can you shed some lights on why writing to vhd is so much slower than to vmdk? Considering that these two are so similar in layout. Only diff is the bitmap on VHD Sent from my iPhone On Oct 15, 2009, at 4:24 AM, Klaus Espenlaub klaus.espenl...@sun.com wrote: Huihong Luo wrote

Re: [vbox-dev] fixed - VHD not readable by Hyper-V

2009-10-18 Thread Huihong Luo
--- On Fri, 10/16/09, Klaus Espenlaub klaus.espenl...@sun.com wrote: From: Klaus Espenlaub klaus.espenl...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] fixed - VHD not readable by Hyper-V To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Friday, October 16, 2009, 5:13

[vbox-dev] a mouse bug

2009-10-18 Thread Huihong Luo
on windows host, move the vm window to the desktop border, so half of the vm window is hidden, then click the mouse inside vm   you will find won't be able to move the mouse to some area of the vm   seems some kind of coordinate calculation bugs___

Re: [vbox-dev] writing to VHD/VDI is 50% slower of VMDK?

2009-10-19 Thread Huihong Luo
? To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Monday, October 19, 2009, 3:15 AM On Tuesday 13 October 2009, Huihong Luo wrote: This seems to be always the case, writing a large amount of data to vdi/vhd is much much slower than writing to a vmdk disk. I am using the the vboxddu.dll code, and clone

Re: [vbox-dev] a mouse bug

2009-10-21 Thread Huihong Luo
-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 12:06 AM Hi Huihong Luo, On Monday 19 October 2009, Huihong Luo wrote: on windows host, move the vm window to the desktop border, so half of the vm window is hidden, then click the mouse inside vm you will find won't be able to move

Re: [vbox-dev] a mouse bug

2009-10-21 Thread Huihong Luo
, October 21, 2009, 5:16 AM On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Huihong Luo wrote: Make sure you don't have the guest additions installed. Right, that way it can be reproduced. Disabling the mouse integration is sufficient. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun

[vbox-dev] failed to add empty dvd from lastest svn

2009-10-22 Thread Huihong Luo
error img attachedattachment: dvd-error.jpg___ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev

Re: [vbox-dev] 100% cpu use of vm on latest svn 23759

2009-10-24 Thread Huihong Luo
Charette stephanechare...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] 100% cpu use of vm on latest svn 23759 To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Sunday, October 18, 2009, 8:49 PM On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 14:03, Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com wrote: some VMs always run on 100% cpu

Re: [vbox-dev] VBoxTray crash bug

2009-10-27 Thread Huihong Luo
] VBoxTray crash bug To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 6:39 AM Huihong, which exact VBox revision were you using? Please provide us more information so that we can reproduce it. Thanks! -Andreas Huihong Luo schrieb: a memory corruption error

[vbox-dev] vhd snapshot merging issues

2009-10-27 Thread Huihong Luo
It occured a few times, that after snapshots were merged (i.e., deleted), my vm can't boot (corrupt ntoskrnl.exe error message on boot screen).   This is from a 127G vhd xp. I am not sure whether this is caused from our end, but worth performing more tests from your

Re: [vbox-dev] split 2g vmdk seems to have some issues

2009-10-27 Thread Huihong Luo
To: Klaus Espenlaub klaus.espenl...@sun.com Cc: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com, vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 5:01 AM Klaus Espenlaub wrote: Huihong Luo wrote: for example   (1) create a 40G disk as split2G, then attach to a xp guest vm, it won't format Confirmed

[vbox-dev] sudden host poweroff results inaccessible virtual disks

2009-10-28 Thread Huihong Luo
when a vm is running (xp sp3 VHD in my case), and the host suffered a power outage. After host was back on, the virtual disk was corrupt.   Seems quite reproducible, always results in corrupt disks.   wonder if code can be improved for disks to survice this kind of power

Re: [vbox-dev] split 2g vmdk seems to have some issues

2009-11-02 Thread Huihong Luo
, 11/2/09, Klaus Espenlaub klaus.espenl...@sun.com wrote: From: Klaus Espenlaub klaus.espenl...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] split 2g vmdk seems to have some issues To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 8:12 AM Huihong Luo wrote: thansk

[vbox-dev] lastest snv totally broken?

2009-11-02 Thread Huihong Luo
newly created vms won't boot, all pop up a error msg:   FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.   from XP guest    ___ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev

Re: [vbox-dev] lastest snv totally broken?

2009-11-02 Thread Huihong Luo
the new attr, Instance=1, e.g., inside the xml file is the cause --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Subject: [vbox-dev] lastest snv totally broken? To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 6:46 PM newly

Re: [vbox-dev] VBoxTray crash bug

2009-11-03 Thread Huihong Luo
, 10/27/09, Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] VBoxTray crash bug To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org, Andreas - Sun Microsystems pentago...@sun.com Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2009, 9:00 AM very recent svn #23996   crash occured

Re: [vbox-dev] VBoxTray crash bug

2009-11-03 Thread Huihong Luo
--- On Tue, 11/3/09, Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] VBoxTray crash bug To: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org, Andreas - Sun Microsystems pentago...@sun.com Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 2:21 AM this one keeps crashing on me   You can

[vbox-dev] [Patch] fix for VBoxTray crash bug

2009-11-03 Thread Huihong Luo
found some serious memory corruption on VBoxTray   unallocated, and thus random memory locations are free-ed   the patch contains 3 files fix, should be very safe to check in VBoxGuestLib.patch Description: Binary data VBoxSeamless.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [vbox-dev] VBoxTray crash bug

2009-11-05 Thread Huihong Luo
: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 1:49 AM Huihong, thanks for your patches! I was able to reproduce these bugs and your patches indeed fixed the problem. Your fixes should appear in SVN soon. Cheers, -Andreas. Huihong Luo schrieb: this crash seems to go away

[vbox-dev] a rare crash

2009-11-05 Thread Huihong Luo
this doesn't happen often, just FYI   static PPDMASYNCCOMPLETIONTASK pdmR3AsyncCompletionGetTask(PPDMASYNCCOMPLETIONENDPOINT pEndpoint, void *pvUser) {   else { /* Grab a free task from the head. */ AssertMsg(pEndpoint-cTasksCached 0, (No tasks cached but list contain more than one element\n));

Re: [vbox-dev] fixed - VHD not readable by Hyper-V

2009-11-05 Thread Huihong Luo
klaus.espenl...@sun.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] fixed - VHD not readable by Hyper-V To: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Cc: vbox-dev@virtualbox.org vbox-dev@virtualbox.org Date: Thursday, October 15, 2009, 4:24 AM Huihong Luo wrote: found another bug, I've attached the patch   two bugs: (1) parent

[vbox-dev] VBoxSvc crash when deleting snapshots

2009-11-05 Thread Huihong Luo
  MediaData::AttachmentList snapAtts = snapshot-getSnapshotMachine()-mMediaData-mAttachments; AssertBreak(pAttach = findAttachment(snapAtts, replaceHd)); } attachLock.unlock();  === CRASH AutoWriteLock attLock(pAttach); pAttach-updateMedium(pHD, false /* aImplicit */);

Re: [vbox-dev] fixed - VHD not readable by Hyper-V

2009-11-09 Thread Huihong Luo
I noted that VDCopy is now in svn, thx.   the Hyper-V not recognized patch (VHDHDDCore.cpp) is still not in, just in case you guys forgot it --- On Thu, 11/5/09, Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Huihong Luo huisi...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] fixed - VHD not readable by Hyper

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