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2009-06-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
Hi, unfortunately we had to disable the registration for our community forums at forums.virtualbox.org temporarily due to a massive amount of SPAM. We will re-enable as soon as we got a proper SPAM protection in place. We are working on that. Sorry for any inconveniences! +++ momentan können

[vbox-users] Right STRG / CTRL Key not working

2009-06-04 Thread Jens Franik
Guten Tag VirtualBox list, i am running 2.2.4 r47978 non-OSE under Debian Lenny and happend to recognize, that my right CTRL Key is not working under XP Sp2 in a Application which needs to get CTRL+M to mark something read. I tried 3 Keyboards, LC-P - Genius - Microsoft Generic Could this be

[vbox-users] Problem with VirtualBox-2.2.x

2009-06-04 Thread Altaf Jauhar
Hail to everyone, Actually I have been using Virtualbox for sometime but did not put myself to be really involved into the idea of contributing to the project, until now. Actually I am Altaf, you guys can call me he]ix. I am working in IBM as a Linux Engineer under the Strategic Outsourcing

Re: [vbox-users] Right STRG / CTRL Key not working

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
Jens, On Thursday 04 June 2009, Jens Franik wrote: i am running 2.2.4 r47978 non-OSE under Debian Lenny and happend to recognize, that my right CTRL Key is not working under XP Sp2 in a Application which needs to get CTRL+M to mark something read. I tried 3 Keyboards, LC-P - Genius -

[vbox-users] Migrate from one host to another

2009-06-04 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
I have a linux guest with snapshots that i want to transfer to another host (same OS and architecture). Copy and pasting resulted the vdi cannot be read. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net ___ vbox-users mailing list

Re: [vbox-users] Problem with VirtualBox-2.2.x

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
Altaf, you forget to describe your actual problem. Does the installation fail or is the installation successful but VirtualBox cannot start? Kind regards, Frank On Thursday 04 June 2009, Altaf Jauhar wrote: Hail to everyone, Actually I have been using Virtualbox for sometime but did not put

[vbox-users] X and Full Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Antonio Augusto (Mancha)
Hello guys, Reading this post : http://blog.hydrasystemsllc.com/2009/06/02/virtualbox-and-the-x-windowing-system/ I realized why my xubunt install doesn't really do full screen on my notebook wide monitor :) There is any change that the virtual monitor report that is supports all possible

[vbox-users] MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Raoul Cadei
Hello, I have a virtual machine with MSDOS6.22 and Wfw 3.11. I mainly installed it because old games I like, like the Indiana Jones 3 and 4 and various Monkey Island. The general performance of the vm is really good: dos is fast and windows too. But if I try to play a game (let me say

Re: [vbox-users] MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
You may get better results using DOSbox and ScummVM for these types of games: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/ On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Raoul Cadei raoul.ca...@geekscube.com wrote: Hello,        I have a virtual machine with MSDOS6.22 and Wfw 3.11. I

Re: [vbox-users] MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Thursday 04 June 2009 at 10:39 am, Raoul Cadei penned about [vbox-users] MSDOS graphics performances really poor Hello, Hi, Is this normal under VirtualBox? I come from VMWare, and I never noticed any slowdown of the games. Do I miss something? Are you using

[vbox-users] R: MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Raoul Cadei
Yes, sure. But I do not have only those game on the vm: I have also some other game, not Scumm-machine based. What I want to do is to have only one platform for all those entertainment, not two or three different. That's why I was wondering if there is something I can do to speed up the graphics.

[vbox-users] R: MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Raoul Cadei
Hello Pablo, I made some test with 3D acceleration enabled and not enabled. The result is the same: slow (very slow) graphics rendering. To give you an idea, I don't know if you ever played one of the games I mentioned, but for example Indy walks at rallenty (that's more or less half of

Re: [vbox-users] MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Frank Mehnert
Raoul, On Thursday 04 June 2009, Raoul Cadei wrote: I have a virtual machine with MSDOS6.22 and Wfw 3.11. I mainly installed it because old games I like, like the Indiana Jones 3 and 4 and various Monkey Island. The general performance of the vm is really good: dos is fast and windows

[vbox-users] R: MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Raoul Cadei
Hello Chris, don't know if 3D acceleration is supported under MSDOS: with or without this setting the result doesn't change. Regards. --- Raoul Cadei t.b. Motivegeeks Labs S.r.l. Mobile : +39.335.682.78.77 E-Mail : raoul.ca...@geekscube.com E-Mail : raoul.ca...@motivegeeks.com

Re: [vbox-users] R: MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Raoul Cadei raoul.ca...@geekscube.comwrote: Hello Pablo, I made some test with 3D acceleration enabled and not enabled. The result is the same: slow (very slow) graphics rendering. To give you an idea, I don't know if you ever played one of the games I

[vbox-users] R: MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Raoul Cadei
Hello Frank, my processor does not have any of the virtualization technologies inside, like VT-x or AMD-V. The corresponding checkbox, under the General VM properties shows the check sign (like the virtualization technologies are enabled) but it is disabled, so I cannot uncheck this

[vbox-users] R: MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Raoul Cadei
Ok Frank, I found it (in the config file). Thank you. --- Raoul Cadei t.b. Motivegeeks Labs S.r.l. Mobile : +39.335.682.78.77 E-Mail : raoul.ca...@geekscube.com E-Mail : raoul.ca...@motivegeeks.com Web Site: http://www.motivegeeks.com/ Skype : callto://raoulcadei/ '...Angel of mercy,

Re: [vbox-users] R: MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Raoul Cadei raoul.ca...@geekscube.comwrote: Hello Pablo, I made some test with 3D acceleration enabled and not enabled. The result is the same: slow (very slow) graphics

Re: [vbox-users] R: MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel Hauck
Curious: Did that resolve your problem? Raoul Cadei さんは書きました: Ok Frank, I found it (in the config file). Thank you. --- Raoul Cadei t.b. Motivegeeks Labs S.r.l. Mobile : +39.335.682.78.77 E-Mail : raoul.ca...@geekscube.com E-Mail : raoul.ca...@motivegeeks.com Web Site:

[vbox-users] R: R: MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Raoul Cadei
Hello Fernando, thank you for the hint. This evening I'll try to install a vesa driver from the ones you linked. I'll be back to the list tomorrow, to show my results. Many thanks to all you. Regards. --- Raoul Cadei t.b. Motivegeeks Labs S.r.l. Mobile : +39.335.682.78.77 E-Mail :

[vbox-users] R: R: MSDOS graphics performances really poor

2009-06-04 Thread Raoul Cadei
No Daniel, this did not resolve my problem. I'll try with a vesa driver, as Fernando suggested. Regards. --- Raoul Cadei t.b. Motivegeeks Labs S.r.l. Mobile : +39.335.682.78.77 E-Mail : raoul.ca...@geekscube.com E-Mail : raoul.ca...@motivegeeks.com Web Site:

[vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread Maciek Kaliszewski
Hi, I've seen that there is active thread about MS_DOS on this list so I add my three penny :-) I have legacy application running under MS-DOS . It runs for few seconds and next freezes . (It doesn't react to Send Alt-Ctrl-DEL or Reset ) As far as I remember the application requires a lot of

Re: [vbox-users] Migrate from one host to another

2009-06-04 Thread Johannes Kastl
On 04.06.2009 11:59 Uhr Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: I have a linux guest with snapshots that i want to transfer to another host (same OS and architecture). Copy and pasting resulted the vdi cannot be read. Have you checked the UIDS or what exactly they are called? Maybe importing as OVF and

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:05:26 +0200 Maciek Kaliszewski maciek.kaliszew...@gmail.com wrote: (who remember what it is :-) ) memory ,but I cannot move some programs to UPPER mem because under VBox there is very small region of it. I remember that my ms-dos machine has over 628kb free

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread Maciek Kaliszewski
dick hoogendijk wrote: On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:05:26 +0200 Maciek Kaliszewski maciek.kaliszew...@gmail.com wrote: (who remember what it is :-) ) memory ,but I cannot move some programs to UPPER mem because under VBox there is very small region of it. I remember that my ms-dos machine

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Maciek Kaliszewski maciek.kaliszew...@gmail.com wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:05:26 +0200 Maciek Kaliszewski maciek.kaliszew...@gmail.com wrote: (who remember what it is :-) ) memory ,but I cannot move some programs to UPPER mem

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread Maciek Kaliszewski
Fernando Cassia wrote: DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS LOADHIGH smartdrv.exe (etc) There are more people on this list whose remember MS-DOS days :-) . My config.sys contains himem.sys , but it only enables HMA AFAIR it is 64kb block after first 1Mb. In order to enable UMB you have to install

[vbox-users] How do you control which image is cloned with VBoxManage clonehd?

2009-06-04 Thread Young
Is there a way to control which snapshot version is cloned? My one successful cloning resulted in the earliest version of the image, which would be a major pain, if not entirely useless. -- Pentium Dual Core E2200 2.2GHz ~ GigaByte GA-EG31M-S2 ~ 4GB DDR2 800

Re: [vbox-users] MS-DOS Apps

2009-06-04 Thread Gregory Nowak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hope I'm not stepping on any toes here if I mention that due to the availability of guest additions for dos, and win98, I run pc-dos7, win3.0, and another vm with win95 under virtual pc 2007, and that works for me very nicely. Maybe someone else

Re: [vbox-users] Problem with VirtualBox-2.2.x

2009-06-04 Thread Altaf Jauhar
Hi Frank and the rest of the guys, Sorry for not explaining on the problem. Actually what happen was if I installed virtualbox 2.2.x, then I will not be able to download any mails using my Lotus Notes client. I think it has something todo with the virtual NIC that virtualbox had created. For