[vbox-users] Win98

2007-11-29 Thread Wolfram Köhn
Hi, I,m yust in the phase of evaluating virtualbox and so far pretty successfull in the installation on my Debian-Testing system. The main goal for me is, to support my old DOS and Windows projects from within Linux. So I had to install Win98 SE, and I'm enthusiastic that it works, even my old

Re: [vbox-users] Problem with keyboard

2007-11-29 Thread segu
Yes, I use the newest version (1.5.2). I'm pretty sure that I have no special desktop-extension installed. But I tried VMware some months ago (and was not happy with it). Could this produce conflicts? Nice greeting, jevo Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:10:45

Re: [vbox-users] Win98

2007-11-29 Thread Dmitriy Kazimirov
Hi, You can use network to share folders. According to roadmap better support for Win98 is not planned anytime soon. As for license,VirtualBox is being distributed under 2 licenses.GPL(OSS version,compile-it-yourself way) and prop. EULA). Do you read that EULA?According to my knowledge if your use

Re: [vbox-users] Win98

2007-11-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Nov 29, 2007 9:30 AM, Dmitriy Kazimirov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You can use network to share folders. According to roadmap better support for Win98 is not planned anytime soon. Why would it be needed to provide specific support for windows 98? Just curious. Isn't there any generic

Re: [vbox-users] Win98

2007-11-29 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Thursday 29 November 2007, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 9:30 AM, Dmitriy Kazimirov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You can use network to share folders. According to roadmap better support for Win98 is not planned anytime soon. Why would it be needed to provide specific

[vbox-users] Can't install win2000 on 1.5.2

2007-11-29 Thread richard terry
Any one had a similar experience, after the initial install and reboot, win 2000 starts the install over and over and over again, not seeming to recognise where it was up to in the boot. I've tried various service pack versions of win 2000. Any comments/help appreciated. Richard

Re: [vbox-users] [Bulk] Can't install win2000 on 1.5.2

2007-11-29 Thread Mike Jeays
On November 29, 2007 04:03:43 pm richard terry wrote: Any one had a similar experience, after the initial install and reboot, win 2000 starts the install over and over and over again, not seeming to recognise where it was up to in the boot. I've tried various service pack

Re: [vbox-users] Win98

2007-11-29 Thread Fernando Cassia
You should contact Kendall Benneth, founder of the firm, and ask for permission to redistribute the binaries from the virtualbox.org site. It should help prevent the files from becoming missing in the long run if scitechsoftware.com is ever unplugged from the Net. Kendall Bennett [EMAIL

Re: [vbox-users] Can't install win2000 on 1.5.2

2007-11-29 Thread Michael Thayer
You might try the suggestion in the user manual (troubleshooting section, Windows guests), in case that is the issue you are experiencing. Regards, Michael richard terry wrote: Any one had a similar experience, after the initial install and reboot, win 2000 starts the install over and