Does Virtual Box support adding graphics drivers to the virtual o/s or
can you only install the base operating system disk?
I was playing with W2K but couldn't get the graphics drivers installed -
it kept dumping out saying that it didn't recognise the card.
Thanks
J.
Richard Forth wrote:
Hey guys, I tell you what is worth playing with, virtualbox for linux,
its free and its does this awesome thing called "seamless mode" - say
if you fired up your Virtual Machine logged into it and then ran
internet explorer, you press the hotkey (which is user-defined)+L I
think, and the VM disappears, and it looks like IE is running in
Gnome*! Its not of course but it works great, you can maximize it,
minimize it, move it around just like any other window - and it looks
really awesome. Oh and because its a VM not a wine sublayer, you do
get the Windows XP windows decorations, not the metacity one for the
windows app that is running in seamless mode
Its great if you want a windows app running that you cant get working
in wine, and you want to be able to seamlesly use that app just like
Wine allows you to so that you can have other Gnome* apps open at the
same time.
Virtual box is essentially an open source version of VMware so the
virtual machine has to be installed from a windows installation disk -
therefore thats why the app you're having trouble with runs much more
stable on VirtualBox than on wine - albeit because you've moved over
the to the darkside again lol - oh yes and licensing etc etc....Which
is why I always suggest wine as a first "port" of call.
*Gnome can be swapped with KDE as appropriate - I use Gnome thats why
I said it.
Check out some of the screenshots
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Screenshots
I'm really impressed with it (if you couldn't tell - lol)
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