Am Donnerstag, 6. September 2007 09:29:47 schrieb Paul Wise:
> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 08:15 +0200, Patrick Winnertz wrote:
> > Forwarded this bug to upstream.. maybe this is fixed within 1.5.0 ?
> > Can you try to verify this issue with 1.5.0 ?
>
> First thing I noticed with 1.5.0 was that it doesn't support the .xml
> file that was created by 1.4.0:
>
> Could not load the settings file
> '/home/pabs/.VirtualBox/Machines/winders/winders.xml'
> (VERR_OPEN_FAILED). FATAL ERROR: Required attribute 'hostMode' was not
> provided
> Location: '/home/pabs/.VirtualBox/Machines/winders/winders.xml', line
> 45, column 77.
>
> Result Code:
> 0x80004005
> Component:
> Machine
> Interface:
> IMachine {31f7169f-14da-4c55-8cb6-a3665186e35e}
>
> After deleting the following lines in that file, it worked fine.
>
> <Uart>
> <Port IOBase="1016" IRQ="4" enabled="false" server="true"
> slot="0"/> <Port IOBase="1016" IRQ="4" enabled="false" server="true"
> slot="1"/> </Uart>
>
> Breaking compatibility like that isn't very good.
1.4.0 used a syntax which was compatible with 1.5.0 but during development
this syntax was broken (which i didn't know), therefore this section has
to be deleted.
I guess I'll add this into the README.Debian.
>
> Anyway vertical scrolling works now. Horizontal scrolling doesn't work
> in notepad or explorer, but I don't know if that is a problem with
> virtualbox or those windows programs. I don't really care about
> horizontal scrolling anyway, may as well close this bug in 1.5.0-dfsg-1
>
> Also, it tries to download ...1.5.0_OSE... instead of ...1.5.0...:
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.0_OSE/VBoxGuestAdditions_1.5.0_OS
>E.iso
>
> instead of:
>
> http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.0/VBoxGuestAdditions_1.5.0_OSE.is
>o
Thx.... This is fixed now.
>
> BTW, Debian has nsis and mingw, so there should be no reason for the
> Windows guest services to not be available, other than the *extremely*
> nasty licence that they are under. I'd suggest that the Debian version
> of VirtualBox OSE should warn that they are non-free before installing
> them. Have you asked upstream about this licence? (I'm not seeing any
> README.Debian notes about this either).
>
> Also, are there guest additions for Linux? and if so will you be
> packaging them?
Yes, I'm working on this issue: See #440517.
Greetings
Winnie
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