Re: [vbox-users] virtual-box - memory ballooning + open source and puel versions

2010-03-09 Thread Vladimir Konrad
Hello Frank, Memory ballooning is planned for the next major release. Memory ballooning is not available for VBox 3.1. All parts necessary for Memory ballooning will be open source. Thank you! Vladimir -- because it reverses the logical flow of conversation + it is hard to follow.

Re: [vbox-users] What is Oracle Going to Do?

2010-03-09 Thread James Mansion
Gregory Nowak wrote: of the gpl version in some way, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the FSF challenge such a turn of events. Since the FSF are not copyright holders, I don't think they'd have any grounds for doing so. I suspect that if Oracle don't sponsor major engineering in

Re: [vbox-users] What is Oracle Going to Do?

2010-03-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:14 PM, James Mansion ja...@mansionfamily.plus.com wrote: Gregory Nowak wrote: of the gpl version in some way, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the FSF challenge such a turn of events. Since the FSF are not copyright holders, I don't think they'd have any

Re: [vbox-users] What is Oracle Going to Do?

2010-03-09 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 3/9/2010 5:26 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: I think that if a huge comet strikes the Earth, we will ALL DIE. oh, a small asteroid or two (a.k.a. flaming rocks from the sky) will be sufficient to distract us from the Oracle-VirtualBox show. no need to kill us off. splat

Re: [vbox-users] What is Oracle Going to Do?

2010-03-09 Thread James Mansion
Fernando Cassia wrote: I think that if a huge comet strikes the Earth, we will ALL DIE. Shame, well, I was trying to make a point that GPL code is not immortal in some way. Let's try to be adult, huh? I like vbox and use it as a preferred solution. If it dies, its no big deal though,

[vbox-users] Fail to install OS on VM

2010-03-09 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Host - Ubuntu 9.10 64bit VirtualBox - Sun edition I ran Sun VirtualBox on Gnome creating VM and installed Ubuntu 9.10 desktop on it without success. I was held on step 4/7. Clicking [Forward] on step 4/7 ; No root file system is defined Please correct this from the partitioning