[vbox-users] [VB 1.5.6] Cannot Release USB Printer Port

2008-05-29 Thread NoOp
I have VB 1.5.6 running on Ubuntu 7.10 with a Win2KPro VM. USB is working but I have one problem that hopefully there is an easy solution. I have a Canon USB MP750 printer that I use with Ubuntu. Works well, but there are a few features that are not fully available w/linux. When I connect the

Re: [vbox-users] [VB 1.5.6] Cannot Release USB Printer Port

2008-05-30 Thread NoOp
On 05/30/2008 02:11 AM, Michael Thayer wrote: Hello NoOp, I'm afraid not, because Linux is not really used to handling the situation that drivers for a device come and go, so it doesn't re-attach the old driver when VirtualBox (and the Windows driver inside of it) releases the printer

Re: [vbox-users] [VB 1.5.6] Cannot Release USB Printer Port

2008-06-04 Thread NoOp
On 05/31/2008 10:18 AM, Seth Keiper wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:03 AM, NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/30/2008 02:11 AM, Michael Thayer wrote: Hello NoOp, I'm afraid not, because Linux is not really used to handling the situation that drivers for a device come and go, so

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 1.6.2 released!

2008-06-06 Thread NoOp
On 06/06/2008 12:18 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, today Sun released VirtualBox 1.6.2, a maintenance release. See the ChangeLog http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog for a list of changes since VirtualBox 1.6.0. The binaries and the manual can be downloaded here:

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 1.6.2 released!

2008-06-08 Thread NoOp
On 06/08/2008 01:48 PM, Frank Mehnert wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2008, NoOp wrote: On 06/06/2008 12:18 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: IMO this is a huge regression with regards to startup speed, cpu usage, video selection etc., compared to 1.5.6. I'll spend a few days comparing, but I have 2

Re: [vbox-users] Windows XP guest not seeing shared folders

2008-06-12 Thread NoOp
On 06/12/2008 06:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, please install the 1.6.2 Guest Additions over the existing ones again and reboot. After that, there should be a VBoxService key in the registry besides VBoxGuest, VBoxSF etc. To check the services, run services.msc. There you'll get a

Re: [vbox-users] Windows XP guest not seeing shared folders

2008-06-12 Thread NoOp
On 06/12/2008 06:02 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote: Not really quite the same. Now shared folders work, except that when I access them it seems to corrupt the video display as per my prior message. This thread seems to have gone quiet though. Maybe I need to start a new one for the new

Re: [vbox-users] video being corrupted by access to shared folders

2008-06-13 Thread NoOp
On 06/13/2008 10:03 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 10:22 -0400, Pablo Sanchez wrote: Hi Brian, Have you tried going back to 1.5.6? AFIAK, the 1.5.6 release is no longer available for download now that everything has moved to the Sun Download Center.

Re: [vbox-users] Windows XP guest not seeing shared folders

2008-06-13 Thread NoOp
On 06/12/2008 05:33 PM, NoOp wrote: Sorry to tag onto Brian's WinXP guest issue, but since the 1.6.2 upgrade from 1.5.6 I have the same issue as Brian on a Win2KPro guest. Previous 1.5.6 had no problems with the shares. Guest = Win2KPro was previously under 1.5.6 Host(s) = Ubuntu Linux

Re: [vbox-users] Virtualbox weird behaviour?

2008-09-23 Thread NoOp
On 09/21/2008 10:57 AM, David L.Pratte wrote: Hi there, I'm been trying to install Windows Server 2003 R2 in virtualbox (Vista host), and that's working pretty well. For some reasons, I have two NICs (NAT and Host Interface) presented to the VM, and I've disabled one of them. But, when i

Re: [vbox-users] Slow Read from mapped SMB shares in 2.0.2

2008-10-10 Thread NoOp
On 10/08/2008 07:37 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: NoOp wrote: [snip] So I copy it over to the Win2KP that I have running in VirtualBox an try to extract with 7-zip and find that it can't be opened as an archive in that either. You can't just right-click the link and save as, you

Re: [vbox-users] Screen went striped green in WinXP guest on Arch Linux 32-bit host

2008-10-15 Thread NoOp
On 10/14/2008 09:09 AM, Thorsten Panknin wrote: Screenshot here: http://image-uploads.de/file.php?id=846625d5e3c15c5 Exactly the same for me with 2.0.2 (Win2KP guest/linux Ubuntu 8.04.1 host - 32 bit) - reproducible everytime that I closed the guest from Start|Shutdown. So I eventually just

Re: [vbox-users] Full Desktop size for VM

2008-10-28 Thread NoOp
On 10/26/2008 12:42 AM, Amit k. Saha wrote: Hi Sangamesh, You will need to install the Virtual Box guest additions for Linux. Hth, Amit That will not always resolve the problem. I've found that the only way that I can get 1024x768 on my linux host/Win2KPro guest is to increase the video

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.0.4 released!

2008-10-30 Thread NoOp
On 10/24/2008 02:27 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, today Sun released VirtualBox 2.0.4 which is a maintenance release. See the ChangeLog http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog Well done! My Win2KPro guests (on linux hosts) now close properly I no longer get the black/green vertical

[vbox-users] High CPU w/2.0.6

2008-12-14 Thread NoOp
I've not used my Vbox install much lately, but needed to fire it up to test something in MS Office. The install is on an Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) 2.4Ghz/1GB P4 machine and the guest is a standard Win2KPro install w/the standard 2.0.6 guest additions. The memory is set for around 512MB w/8Mb video and

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

2008-12-18 Thread NoOp
On 12/17/2008 05:44 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, today Sun released VirtualBox 2.1.0. The following major new features were added: * Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts * Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see

Re: [vbox-users] Moving from 2.0.6 to 2.1.2 on Ubuntu - what's the right way?

2009-02-06 Thread NoOp
On 02/05/2009 04:36 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009, Amit k. Saha wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Chris G c...@isbd.net wrote: I have been running VirtualBox 2.0.6 on my Ubuntu 8.10 system for a while now but feel that I maybe should move to the 2.1 series.

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.4 released!

2009-02-17 Thread NoOp
On 02/16/2009 11:16 PM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, today Sun released VirtualBox 2.1.4 which is a maintenance release. See the ChangeLog http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog for more details. The binaries and the manual can be downloaded here:

Re: [vbox-users] [mailer-dae...@show to use printer on Linux host from XP guest?

2009-02-17 Thread NoOp
On 02/16/2009 06:29 AM, Chris G wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:52:47PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Chris G wrote: I have an HP1320 Laserjet printer set up on my Linux (xubuntu 8.10) host machine using CUPS, I can share it from other Linux machines on the LAN. How do I use it

Re: [vbox-users] USB devices list greyed

2009-03-10 Thread NoOp
On 02/24/2009 01:35 AM, Michael Thayer wrote: Hello Lew and all, Lew Wolfgang wrote: After a lot of fiddling and non-deterministic behavior I isolated the problem to multiple mounting of the usbfs filesystem. As of VirtualBox 2.1.2 (with a couple of fixes in 2.1.4), USB on Linux hosts

Re: [vbox-users] 2.2.0 Crashed w/XP guest - Anyone else seeing this??

2009-04-19 Thread NoOp
On 04/15/2009 11:54 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Downloaded and installed vb 2.2.0 on my Toshiba P35d running openSuSE 11.0. I have run virtualbox on this machine since 1.5.6 and never experienced a crash where the window just crashes and disappears. I was simply cutting and

Re: [vbox-users] 2.2.0 Crashed w/XP guest - Anyone else seeing this??

2009-04-19 Thread NoOp
and will reinstall MS Office 97 to see if that clears the problem. If not, then I'll file a bug report with the full logs given that it is (currently reproducible). PS: no need to cc me on post replies; I read the list will get replies here thanks :-) On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 12:32 -0700, NoOp

Re: [vbox-users] 2.2.0 Crashed w/XP guest - Anyone else seeing this??

2009-04-20 Thread NoOp
On 04/20/2009 08:32 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: NoOp wrote: On 04/15/2009 11:54 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Downloaded and installed vb 2.2.0 on my Toshiba P35d running openSuSE 11.0. I have run virtualbox on this machine since 1.5.6 and never experienced a crash where

Re: [vbox-users] 2.2.0 Crashed w/XP guest - Anyone else seeing this??

2009-04-21 Thread NoOp
On 04/20/2009 08:32 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: NoOp wrote: On 04/15/2009 11:54 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Listmates, Downloaded and installed vb 2.2.0 on my Toshiba P35d running openSuSE 11.0. I have run virtualbox on this machine since 1.5.6 and never experienced a crash where

Re: [vbox-users] 2.2.0 Crashed w/XP guest - Anyone else seeing this??

2009-04-21 Thread NoOp
On 04/21/2009 02:18 PM, NoOp wrote: I googled on VBoxX11ClipboardReadVBoxData returned VERR_TIMEOUT and found this 2.2.0 bug: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3723 [VB guest crashed while typing into window = Fixed in SVN] Note from my additions to the bug report that I actually ended

Re: [vbox-users] VBox 2.2 - windows guest on ubuntu host - all usb greyed out

2009-04-22 Thread NoOp
On 04/22/2009 04:19 AM, Seth Keiper wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:39 PM, hanasaki jiji hanas...@gmail.com wrote: VBox 2.2 - windows guest on ubuntu host - all usb greyed out How do I get them enabled? Added the USB via the GUI Installed the guest additions that are working fine for sound

Re: [vbox-users] Strange problem with updating software in a VM running openSUSE 11.1

2009-04-23 Thread NoOp
On 04/23/2009 11:43 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:05:23 +0200 Freek de Kruijf f.de.kru...@hetnet.nl wrote: The solution to the above problem is indeed a change in the hardware emulation from PCnet-FAST III to Intel PRO/1000 MT. Any reasons why always the desktop

Re: [vbox-users] Strange problem with updating software in a VM running openSUSE 11.1

2009-04-24 Thread NoOp
On 04/24/2009 12:12 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: On Friday 24 April 2009, NoOp wrote: ... Any reason why there are multiple posts indicating that this actually fixes a problem? My onboard nic on this machine is: *-network description: Ethernet interface product

Re: [vbox-users] Strange problem with updating software in a VM running openSUSE 11.1

2009-04-24 Thread NoOp
On 04/24/2009 10:28 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:13:30 -0300 Antonio Augusto (Mancha) mkha...@gmail.com wrote: If you know which driver you need why don't you download it within the host and then share it to the VM using shared folders? Exactly what I was thinking

Re: [vbox-users] Announce: VirtualBox 2.2.2 released!

2009-04-28 Thread NoOp
On 04/28/2009 01:35 PM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, today Sun released VirtualBox 2.2.2, a maintenance release. See the ChangeLog at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog for a list of changes since VirtualBox 2.2.0. The binaries and the user manual can be downloaded here:

Re: [vbox-users] Upgrade from 2.1.4 to 2.2.2, now my guests won't run

2009-04-29 Thread NoOp
On 04/29/2009 02:52 PM, Chris G wrote: I just upgraded from VirtualBox 2.1.4 to VirtualBox 2.2.2 on my xubuntu 8.10 host. Now when I try and run my guest systems the window pops up momentarily then disappears again and leaves the status of the guest as Aborted. The installation did sya

Re: [vbox-users] WARNING: VBoxManage modifyhd --compact broken in VBox 2.2.2

2009-04-30 Thread NoOp
On 04/30/2009 12:56 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, please don't use VBoxManage modifyhd VDI_FILE --compact with VirtualBox 2.2.2. There is a typo which usually leads to crashes of VBoxSVC but in the worst case it can lead to .vdi corruption. The bug is already fixed in the SVN

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

2009-06-24 Thread NoOp
On 06/04/2009 08:17 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Starting with VirtualBox 2.2.0 we enable VT-x/AMD-V by default for new VMs. Especially DOS graphics might be slower with these features enabled so check if this VM setting makes any difference. Kind regards, Frank Frank, while checking

[vbox-users] VirtualBox updates are not showing up

2009-07-02 Thread NoOp
Running Ubuntu 9.04 + 2.2.4 PUEL with the repositories enabled per: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jaunty non-free Updates are not showing up when using VirtualBox Help|Check for updates, nor are they showing up in Ubuntu update

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox updates are not showing up

2009-07-03 Thread NoOp
On 07/03/2009 09:26 AM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: It's a quirk of the way the packages are named in the VirtualBox apt repository. You are currently running 2.2.4 which is a package named virtualbox-2.2. Had a 2.2.5 been released, you would have seen the update. Virtualbox 3.0.0 is actually

Re: [vbox-users] [Off-Topic] My Sun Connection account

2009-07-05 Thread NoOp
On 07/05/2009 08:12 AM, Miguel Cárdenas wrote: Hi Since this version 3.0.0 of VBox it asks for a Sun Connection account login to register and run the virtual box. ... You do not need to register to run VirtualBox. Further, the account that they use to register is not the same as your

Re: [vbox-users] Cloning or import/export Win XP guests doesn't work

2009-07-05 Thread NoOp
On 07/04/2009 10:17 AM, Lars Bjørndal wrote: Hello! Hope I can get some help from this list! I'm using VirtualBox-3.0.0_49315_fedora9-1.i386 on a Fedora 10 system. I want to clone an old Windows XP virtual machine, SP2, I believe, into a new one. Cloning is fine, because I'm blind, and

Re: [vbox-users] Copy/paste doesn't work

2009-07-06 Thread NoOp
On 07/05/2009 02:27 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote: After upgrading to Sun VirtualBox 3, the paste function inside Windows XP (Explorer) is grayed out. Does anyone experience the same? Lars Linux Host/Win2KPro Guest: Paste function in Windows Exporer is no longer there. I can, however, drag drop

Re: [vbox-users] Copy/paste doesn't work

2009-07-06 Thread NoOp
On 07/06/2009 03:46 PM, NoOp wrote: On 07/05/2009 02:27 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote: After upgrading to Sun VirtualBox 3, the paste function inside Windows XP (Explorer) is grayed out. Does anyone experience the same? Lars Linux Host/Win2KPro Guest: Paste function in Windows Exporer

Re: [vbox-users] Copy/paste doesn't work

2009-07-07 Thread NoOp
On 07/07/2009 08:57 AM, Michael Thayer wrote: Hello All, On 07/05/2009 02:27 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote: After upgrading to Sun VirtualBox 3, the paste function inside Windows XP (Explorer) is grayed out. Does anyone experience the same? Please see http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/4380 and

Re: [vbox-users] Copy/paste doesn't work

2009-07-09 Thread NoOp
On 07/07/2009 08:40 PM, NoOp wrote: On 07/07/2009 08:57 AM, Michael Thayer wrote: Hello All, On 07/05/2009 02:27 PM, Lars Bjørndal wrote: After upgrading to Sun VirtualBox 3, the paste function inside Windows XP (Explorer) is grayed out. Does anyone experience the same? Please see http

Re: [vbox-users] Copy/paste doesn't work

2009-07-09 Thread NoOp
On 07/09/2009 02:43 PM, Michael Thayer wrote: NoOp wrote: 4380 shows that it has now been fixed in the SVN. Will this be available as a GA download/update only, or will we need to wait for 3.0.x and do an entire new 3.0.x reinstall? Michael? This is a pretty serious regression. Sorry

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox updates are not showing up

2009-07-10 Thread NoOp
On 07/03/2009 09:26 AM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: It's a quirk of the way the packages are named in the VirtualBox apt repository. You are currently running 2.2.4 which is a package named virtualbox-2.2. Had a 2.2.5 been released, you would have seen the update. Virtualbox 3.0.0 is actually

Re: [vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.0.2 released

2009-07-10 Thread NoOp
On 07/10/2009 01:43 PM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, today Sun released VirtualBox 3.0.2, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.0 which fixes several bugs and regressions. See the ChangeLog http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog for a complete list of all changes. You can download the

Re: [vbox-users] Copy/paste doesn't work

2009-07-10 Thread NoOp
On 07/09/2009 02:43 PM, Michael Thayer wrote: NoOp wrote: 4380 shows that it has now been fixed in the SVN. Will this be available as a GA download/update only, or will we need to wait for 3.0.x and do an entire new 3.0.x reinstall? Michael? This is a pretty serious regression. Sorry

Re: [vbox-users] intel x3100 + ubuntu 9.04 guest = badness

2009-07-16 Thread NoOp
On 07/16/2009 09:16 AM, Greg Knight wrote: This leaves the full-screen issue: It turns out this issue occurs using Compiz, but not when using Metacity. No UI updates at all in fullscreen - if I type into a guest window the text does not show up. The cursor doesn't even blink in a terminal

Re: [vbox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.0.4 released

2009-08-07 Thread NoOp
On 08/05/2009 12:43 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, today Sun released VirtualBox 3.0.4, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.0 which fixes several bugs and regressions. See the ChangeLog http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog for a complete list of all changes. You can download the

[vbox-users] Use 2nd WinXP drive as VM drive

2009-10-13 Thread NoOp
In the past I've always created the VM on the same drive w/o major issues. However I have several machines that are dual boot (linux on one drive WinXP on the other) have hesitated to try using those machines to test using the 2nd drive as the VM. I've now aquired 2 recycled test machines that

Re: [vbox-users] Use 2nd WinXP drive as VM drive

2009-10-14 Thread NoOp
On 10/13/2009 05:07 PM, NoOp wrote: In the past I've always created the VM on the same drive w/o major issues. However I have several machines that are dual boot (linux on one drive WinXP on the other) have hesitated to try using those machines to test using the 2nd drive as the VM. I've now

Re: [vbox-users] Use 2nd WinXP drive as VM drive

2009-10-15 Thread NoOp
On 10/14/2009 07:54 PM, Mark Cranness wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:55 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 10/13/2009 05:07 PM, NoOp wrote: What I'd like to do is create a WinXPPro VirtualBox VM on the linux drive (sdb), and rather than do it on the same drive, have it use the WinXPPro

Re: [vbox-users] Use 2nd WinXP drive as VM drive

2009-10-15 Thread NoOp
On 10/14/2009 07:37 PM, Bruce MacArthur wrote: ... I don't really know all that much about VirtualBox -- but you are not making sense to me! Right... ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-users] Windows 7 iso ?

2009-11-09 Thread NoOp
On 11/08/2009 01:46 AM, Alexey Eremenko wrote: FC PS:WinXX users that do not have wget should get it. :) http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/ Windows users are better off with WinHTTrack as it has native Windows GUI, and similar feature-set. wget is command-line stuff, and Windows users

Re: [vbox-users] Virtual Box 3.0.12 in xubuntu 9.10 often gives 100% CPU usage

2009-12-10 Thread NoOp
On 12/07/2009 01:58 AM, Chris G wrote: I have just upgraded my system from xubuntu 9.04 to xubunt 9.10, this has moved the kernel from 2.6.28-16 to 2.6.31-16. When I start virtualbox up now it often hogs the processor completely and makes the system unusable, I've Googled around a bit and

Re: [vbox-users] Virtual Box 3.0.12 in xubuntu 9.10 often gives 100% CPU usage

2009-12-10 Thread NoOp
On 12/10/2009 02:14 PM, Chris G wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:57:45PM -0800, NoOp wrote: ,,, Perhaps it's a guest OS issue? I have Ubuntu 9.10 2.6.31-16-generic w/Win2KPro VirtualBox 3.012, 2.4Ghz/1Gb, and startup actually seems to behave much better for me than in earlier versions

Re: [vbox-users] New vbox-users community mailing list at sourceforge.net

2010-03-05 Thread NoOp
On 03/05/2010 11:19 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: That last pretty much defeats the purpose of using gmane.org. The purpose of using gmane.org is so that you needn't use email to review or post, and instead use nntp. Anyone can

[vbox-users] [OT] Fernando's comments (was) Re: Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-05 Thread NoOp
On 03/05/2010 04:50 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:55 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 03/04/2010 01:59 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: Hi, we've decided to close the vbox-users mailing list as the traffic is very low and the VBox forums at http