[vbox-users] Fedora (FC6) build?

2007-08-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi, I run Fedora Core 6 - kernel is #uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.22.2-42.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Aug 15 12:34:26 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux I looked in the download page and found binaries for FC7. Any chance of also doing a FC6 build? I'm not ready to update to FC7 yet.

Re: [vbox-users] keyboard mapping

2007-08-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
Use Google, it's your friend http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/homepage/exstaff/francis/Geek/ctrl-caps-swap_g.php FC On 8/30/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using vb with a linux host and xp guest. My host uses kde. I have Ctrl/Caps lock keys swapped. In the virtual xp guest,

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 1.5 released?

2007-09-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 9/1/07, Frank Mehnert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007, Mariano Draghi wrote: Although these _should_ be the final builds we will announce the 1.5 release on Monday. Kind regards, Frank So will 1.5 surprise us by supporting Fedora Core 6 out of the box? :) FC

[vbox-users] Dual-core Opteron

2007-09-02 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi, I've found a few references to opteron on the Virtualbox source. My question is simple: AMD has been touting the Opteron (and specially the 240 Dual-Core Opterons) as virtualization-optimized CPUs... so... does Virtualbox 1.5 take advantage of a Dual-Core Opteron? Are any CPU-specific

Re: [vbox-users] Dual-core Opteron

2007-09-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On 9/3/07, David Balazic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but if you already have a working virtualization code (like VMware with more than 6 years of experiance) then it brings next to nothing. It is also slower than software virtualization. 2004: VMware tests Opteron support June 21, 2004

Re: [vbox-users] so you really like VirtualBox's solution? give them some pizza money!

2007-09-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
Perhaps I'm a selfish bastard, but over the years, I've found that I'm more eager to donate if I get something symbolic (even if cost of manufacture is $1 or $5) in return. Say... do a VirtualBox white T-shirt with a nice color xfer design (showing multiple OSs on each face of a cube, with the

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox Benchmarks !!!

2007-10-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
Thanks Alexey. Next time, I'd suggest also offering the same document in an open, non-proprietary format. .ODS (Open Document Spreadsheet) would be a good choice. :) FC On 10/6/07, Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At last ! I have found time this weekend to make some serious

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 Fernando Cassia
be this should be added to VirtualBox Manual(together with section on file sharing on win98 using real networking) 2007/11/29, Frank Mehnert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 29 November 2007, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 9:30 AM, Dmitriy Kazimirov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You can

Re: [vbox-users] Win98

2007-11-30 Thread Fernando Cassia
From Win98 Control Panel try to add new hardware and see if you can select manually from a list... see if there's a VESA graphics card generic in there or not. I honestly don't remember and don't have a working win98 system around to check. FC On Nov 30, 2007 7:47 AM, Wolfram Köhn [EMAIL

[vbox-users] Bugs-RFEs for Resizing an existing VDI?

2008-03-24 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi, I created a VDI for a Windows 98 VM but quickly filled it. I´d need to resize the VDI image to make it larger. Why can´t Virtualbox provide tools do it it seamlessly?. Are there any bugs/RFEs filed to have this capability developed? FC ___

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox needs BIOS customization option (readable format)

2008-05-22 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Nanley Chery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every single piece of hardware could be changed on a PC with SLP and no reactivation would be required – even the motherboard could be replaced as long as the replacement motherboard was original equipment manufactured by

Re: [vbox-users] how to make a debian package from vbox svn ?

2008-05-23 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:24 AM, William Dode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use the svn version of virtualbox to resolv the host problems and it works. Now i would like to install it, i see that there is a directory to build the package for debian, but how can i build it ? thanks --

Re: [vbox-users] RedPill for VirtualBox: how to detect that I'm running on a guest system?

2008-06-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Marcin Hoppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear VirtualBox users, How can I detect (from my own program) that I am running inside VirtualBox guest operating system? I know some techniques for detecting other VMEs like VMware and VirtualPC (like aforementioned

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 1.7 and SDL

2008-07-25 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Michael Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good news then! I've been using almost only VBoxSDL because of the performance.. The front end will QT only? VBoxSDL will continue to use on SDL, but the main application (VirtualBox) will not. Sorry... I never

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox 2.0 released!

2008-09-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe if Qt had improved GTK and Windows backends, then it may be possible. You should email to Nokia, not here. -- -Alexey Eromenko Technologov QT == Trolltech == Nokia GTK == http://www.gtk.org/overview.html

[vbox-users] Backwards compatibility? Re: VirtualBox 2.0 released!

2008-09-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
What happens if I have a VM created with v1.5.x or 1.6.x? I assume 2.0 would pick them up an do any conversions to the file if necessary? Just wondering aloud before I destroy my Vista VM (I still don't remember which VirtualBox version I used to create it... it's stored on a different machine

Re: [vbox-users] Backwards compatibility? Re: VirtualBox 2.0 released!

2008-09-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Frank Mehnert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando, Thanks for your prompt reply! (Terry, should we make an FAQ entry from this?) I am not Terry, but if you ask me, I think so!. :-) The only thing which changes is the xml format of the machine description.

Re: [vbox-users] Unable to install linux guest additions

2008-09-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Frank Mehnert [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Please could you stop cross-posting? Creating a bug report for such issues is sufficient, I already made a comment there. The instructions are quite clear. Thank you, Frank On Friday 05 September 2008, Neal Becker

Re: [vbox-users] 2.0 Rocks!

2008-09-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Vladimir Psenicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont agree, Virtualbox 2.0.0 has some critical bugs with 64bit guests, see: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2179 It's an open source project. That's why there's a bug report system and why bugs are then fixed.

Re: [vbox-users] Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances?

2008-09-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Create a new VM using the Virtualbox GUI, set it as Linux as the guest OS (on the drop-down), and then point it to the downloaded file. Should work... You mean the VDI ? The VDI is a virtual disk image. The files you

Re: [vbox-users] Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances?

2008-09-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: If yes, then how do I create a VM using the above two files using VBoxManage? I got my answer- you cannot use a config file meant for OS-1 on OS-2 Thanks, Amit I don't think the config file is really all that

Re: [vbox-users] Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances?

2008-09-11 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: The very concept of Virtual appliance is that you *don't* have to create a new configuration or a new VM which in VBox terms is using the existing XML file. The problem is that VirtualBox does not (to my knowledge) have

Re: [vbox-users] Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances?

2008-09-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Grant McWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 September 2008 00:50:44 Grant McWilliams wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:25 AM, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded a couple. Since I never got my own ReactOS install to run on

Re: [vbox-users] Has anyone tried using the VirtualBox appliances?

2008-09-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:32 AM, Amit k. Saha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There could be a variety of reasons. For one, if you try to use the existing XML file, then you will run into problems if your Host OS is *not* the same as the one it was created on. -Amit I guess, then, that the

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox stability

2008-09-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Andreas Höschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have installed VirtualBox 1.6.4 on a Solaris 10 05/08 system. I then created a first guest image and installed Solaris 10 05/08 on it. The first impression is, this works like a charm. I love it! However, I

Re: [vbox-users] How to get best virtualbox performance?

2008-09-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:11 PM, tchomby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give me any hints about improving the performance of my virtual machine? I'm running an Ubuntu 8.04 VM in VirtualBox 2.0.2 on Windows XP. I'm using Camtasia Studio in Windows to screen-capture the virtual machine

[vbox-users] Can VBox Mac run Mac OS X itself?

2008-09-21 Thread Fernando Cassia
I wonder if it's possible to use VirtualBox on Mac OS X to run an earlier version of the OS X? I mean, for instance, running a VM with Tiger inside a copy of Leopard ? Just curious. FC ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-users] VirtualBox images spike the CPU temperature

2008-11-14 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Stealth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running native VirtualBox images cause the CPU temperature to climb to over heat shut level. Running native VMWare images do not to this. -- Stealth What is the purpose of participating in a mailing list and hiding your name

Re: [vbox-users] Fedora 10 as guest is OK, I guess?

2008-11-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
to me all the time while I was playing with (hastala)Vista. What I want to do is the opposite, run Fedora 10 as guest under WinXP SP2. I just wanted to know if anyone had installed it by now and if there are any showstopper / install problems. FC Fernando Cassia wrote: Before I attempt

Re: [vbox-users] Fedora 10 as guest is OK, I guess?

2008-11-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Grant McWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Fernando Cassia [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Before I attempt an install, I'd like to know if anyone is already running Fedora 10 (i386) under Virtualbox If there are any known problems

Re: [vbox-users] Vbox 2.0.6 and AVG 7.5 on Win XP = Horrible Slownessfor Mapped Drives

2008-12-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:57 PM, David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: There are *very* few sites left that require IE - the difference between different versions of IE is so big that it is extremely difficult to make a website that works with both IE6 and IE7 and yet fails to work with Webkit,

Re: [vbox-users] Vbox 2.0.6 and AVG 7.5 on Win XP = Horrible Slownessfor Mapped Drives

2008-12-10 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:26 PM, David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, far and away the best general purpose firewall on Windows is the built-in windows firewall - it is *much* better than any third-party addon (except perhaps ipfilter for windows), simply because it doesn't have a

Re: [vbox-users] Parallel machines

2008-12-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Peter Ondruška peter.ondru...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of Christmas reminds me to wish you Merry Christmas. And many thanks for bringing Virtualbox on Mac. This version 2.0 is really good--I have replaced Parallels 3 (ie no more upgrade of Parallels...). Peter

[vbox-users] OT: I hope Sun employees revolt

2009-03-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
I don't want to see VirtualBox, and OpenOffice, and other projects stagnate under an Inmense Bureaucratic Mammoth or others like Netbeans become Eclipsed... Please, revolt, write to that ponytail CEO of yours... Even under Dell or HP it'll fare better than under the weight of Big Blue. Or better

Re: [vbox-users] OT: I hope Sun employees revolt

2009-03-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
2009/3/19 Brian J. Murrell br...@interlinx.bc.ca: Hrm. You don't seem to have a grasp on how things work in the real world... Hello Brian, Thanks for enlightening me about what goes on in the real world outside my bubble. I forgot to say I was an IBM customer and had contact with top execs

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

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] 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

2009-06-09 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Libor Strizpoutn...@volny.cz wrote: Fernando Cassia's previous post was like this : DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS LOADHIGH smartdrv.exe (etc) Is there need for smartdrv ? I would thought caching is covered by the host. But I can be wrong. No need for

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

2009-06-24 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Raoul Cadeiraoul.ca...@geekscube.com wrote: Good morning Michael, I just tried your hint, but nothing changed: I have a virtual machine with MSDOS 6.22 ITA, and I tried to play Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (not logged in windows for workgroups

[vbox-users] The case for using Nullsoft Installer instead of MSI + Win32 Virtualbox as .zip file??

2009-08-25 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi, I need to install Virtualbox on a system where Windows Installer is totally borked. I cannot install any software that is delivered as a .MSI. It seems to me that previous versions of VirtualBox didn't use Windows Installer but the latest does (despite being delivered as an .EXE).

[vbox-users] Virtualbox 3.0.4 as zip ?

2009-08-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
Could someone please zip up the installed dir of Virtualbox 3.0.4, upload it to some hosting like rapidshare or megaupload, and email me the URL (off-list if you prefer so) privately? Thanks FC ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-users] Virtualbox 3.0.4 as zip ?

2009-08-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Antonio Augusto (Mancha)mkha...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 18:24, Fernando Cassiafcas...@gmail.com wrote: Could someone please zip up the installed dir of Virtualbox 3.0.4, upload it to some hosting like rapidshare or megaupload, and email me the

Re: [vbox-users] Virtualbox 3.0.4 as zip ?

2009-08-28 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Giovanni Toraldoscurip...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 07:22, Fernando Cassiafcas...@gmail.com wrote: An installer should be something that just copies files to the right location, not something obscure that messes your system like Windows Installer

Re: [vbox-users] Windows 7 iso ?

2009-11-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Tanaka Toshimitsu t_tan...@db3.so-net.ne.jp wrote: try this Windows 7 Enterprise 90-day Trial http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/cc442495.aspx And here is the direct download URL, you can use wget -c from Linux and it works very well.

Re: [vbox-users] Windows 7 iso ?

2009-11-08 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Alexey Eremenko al4...@gmail.com 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

Re: [vbox-users] Virtual box 3.1

2009-12-01 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:47 AM, n179911 n179...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am using Virtual box 3.0.12 on MacOSX, How can I upgrade to virtual box 3.1 without messing up the machine I installed for virtual 3.0.1? Thank you. It should be seamless. Just install the new version. In the past I have

Re: [vbox-users] Virtualbox can not work with virtual machines (Host) RAM= 4GB RAM

2009-12-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
I guess you´re aware that 32-bit OSs cannot typically address more than 4GB of RAM. Thus, on a 16GB RAM system, you´ll be much better by running a 64-bit host OS. As simple as that. PAE is just a trick, that allows a given process to get its own 4GB flat address space.

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Pablo Sanchez pa...@blueoakdb.com wrote: [ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 11:34 am, Tobias Oetiker penned about Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking [ snipped ] Hi Tobi, I see I can download Windows

[vbox-users] Can a non-legit XP cd key in a VM trigger a de-activation in the host OS (perhaps over the net by IP?)

2010-01-25 Thread Fernando Cassia
This is strange... I am running WinXP SP2 here (the XP Home that came pre-installed in my Gateway 7422 notebook). I was in a rush to install another XP virtualized to run some password cracker downloaded from one of those security sites with unknown reputation. So instead of risking to infect my

Re: [vbox-users] oracle acquisition news on vbox

2010-01-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: Has anyone heard any news today on how the acquisition is going to affect vbox? Oracle VM is XEN based. Sun’s xVM is XEN based. Oracle bought Virtual Iron which is also XEN based. Wonder where vbox fits into

Re: [vbox-users] oracle acquisition news on vbox

2010-01-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: From: Fernando Cassia [mailto:fcas...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:13 AM To: Geoff Nordli; VirtualBox end user list Subject: Re: [vbox-users] oracle acquisition news on vbox On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3

Re: [vbox-users] oracle acquisition news on vbox

2010-01-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Geoff Nordli geo...@gnaa.net wrote: From: Fernando Cassia [mailto:fcas...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:48 AM To: Geoff Nordli Cc: VirtualBox end user list Subject: Re: [vbox-users] oracle acquisition news on vbox On Wed, Jan 27, 2010

Re: [vbox-users] oracle acquisition news on vbox

2010-01-27 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Alexey Eremenko al4...@gmail.com wrote: 3. If OpenOffice stays, I hope that VBox will too... Ellison already spoke very favorably about OpenOffice and StarOffice, and said it was an asset for Oracle. I don´t have the URL handy but I could find it. Yet,

Re: [vbox-users] Can a non-legit XP cd key in a VM triggerade-activation in the host OS (perhaps over the net by IP?

2010-02-02 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Tim Atkinson t...@hotneedle.net wrote: Sorry this is a little late but might be relavent My main working system is a vista 32bit VDI image on a 32Gb memory stick - I boot this on whatever host hardware is available to me - Vista64 on AMD, EEE PC Atom 32bit

Re: [vbox-users] Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
My work day is 90% reading my GMail inbox. With this mailing list, I was able to learn about features, problems, etc without leaving my browser tab. A web forum only makes things worse, not better. Wouldn´t there be a way to integrate the mailing list with web forums?. IE a new mail to this

Re: [vbox-users] Create a new list? Re: Fw: Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Pablo Sanchez pa...@blueoakdb.com wrote: [ Comments below, in line ] On Thursday 04 March 2010 at 10:51 am, Umarzuki Mochlis penned about Re: [vbox-users] Create a new list? Re: Fw: Closing this mailing-list 2010/3/4 rancor ran...@dathomir.se What about to

[vbox-users] A win-win scenario for vboxusers.org + sourceforge Mailing list - Was Re: Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Gregory Nowak g...@romuald.net.eu.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 07:25:32AM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: My work day is 90% reading my GMail inbox. With this mailing list, I was able to learn about features

Re: [vbox-users] A win-win scenario for vboxusers.org + sourceforge Mailing list - Was Re: Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: marketing speech about what Virtualbox can do to end-users, and then That sounds like Virtualbox has a life on its own. Sorry, I meant what users can do with virtualbox. ;-)) FC

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

2010-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
Hi, The new community mailing list for vbox users at sourceforge is active. Subscription page is: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community FYI... FC ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org

Re: [vbox-users] Closing old / creating new mailing list

2010-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:08 PM, dush...@spinn.net wrote: rancor ran...@dathomir.se wrote: snip ... in fact there is a lot of people that follow the list in silence. Just to add my voice to this, I'm one of those people (well, almost silence), and I much appreciate this mailing list.

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

2010-03-04 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:48 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 03/04/2010 01:21 PM, Pablo Sanchez wrote: [ Comments below, in line ] On Thursday 04 March 2010 at 2:59 pm, Pablo Sanchez penned about Re: [vbox-users] New vbox-users community mailing list at sourceforge.net [

Re: [vbox-users] Closing this mailing-list

2010-03-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: Op 5-3-2010 17:23, sdavmor wrote: And add me +1 on the big round of thanks to Frank and the other Sun contributors to the list. Always helpful; always polite. I'll keep on reading these messages and at the same time

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

2010-03-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:38 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I see... so Please reconsider enabling posting from nntp w/gmane.org. is lack of manners? Perhaps I should have put some additional emphasis on the word *Please*? I actually meant that you seem to want things your way. Even if

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

2010-03-05 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Nikola M minik...@gmail.com wrote: I also think that is nice to have Nntp.. Please Use IMAP/POP3 with Gmail. Thanks for the advice. But I already used pop3 and Imap for years. I´m no newbie to the Internet, let me assure you. People using their E-mail

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

2010-03-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:44 AM, James Brown jbrownfi...@gmail.com wrote: Very thanks! You´re welcome. :) There´s near 100 people already subscribed, now let´s hope it´s used as the old list was before. FC ___ vbox-users mailing list

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

2010-03-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
I don't recall seeing anything else from Frank with regard to the list closing. Did I miss something? vbox-users@virtualbox.org will close. That's what Frank said. At any rate, I think we're covered. I've got the vboxusers.org web page up and working. It's just a quick and dirty page

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

2010-03-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:26 PM, David Brown david.br...@hesbynett.nowrote: Fernando Cassia wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:38 PM, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net mailto: gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I see... so Please reconsider enabling posting from nntp w/gmane.org http://gmane.org

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

2010-03-07 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Alexey Eremenko al4...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with you Alexey. Lew said: There's an excellent chance that if Oracle spits out VirtualBox it will dry up and blow away. There´s also a statistical chance of a big meteor hitting the Earth, or a major earthuqake

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