Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-26 Thread S Glasoe
On Sunday June 24 2007 8:27:39 am S Glasoe wrote: On Saturday June 23 2007 7:53:45 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: How well does VirtualBox integerate the clipboard between the host and guest environments? I think of all the functions of the VMware Tools, clipboard integration is what I use

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-26 Thread Gordon Keehn
S Glasoe wrote: On Sunday June 24 2007 8:27:39 am S Glasoe wrote: On Saturday June 23 2007 7:53:45 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: How well does VirtualBox integerate the clipboard between the host and guest environments? I think of all the functions of the VMware Tools, clipboard

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread S Glasoe
On Saturday June 23 2007 7:53:45 pm Randall R Schulz wrote: How well does VirtualBox integerate the clipboard between the host and guest environments? I think of all the functions of the VMware Tools, clipboard integration is what I use most. Second would probably be file sharing (i.e., the

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 23 June 2007 17:53, Randall R Schulz wrote: ... How well does VirtualBox integerate the clipboard between the host and guest environments? I think of all the functions of the VMware Tools, clipboard integration is what I use most. Second would probably be file sharing (i.e., the

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I don't think the host-to-guest file sharing is done via SMB / CIFS. When I view the Properties dialog in my current VMware setup, it shows the type as Network Drive and the File System: as HGFS (which I've never seen or heard of

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 24 June 2007 15:12, Peter Van Lone wrote: On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I don't think the host-to-guest file sharing is done via SMB / CIFS. When I view the Properties dialog in my current VMware setup, it shows the type as Network Drive and the

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that I recall. I've had this setup in place for quite a while, now. Of course, you have to configure the shared folders in the VM configuration dialog _and_ enable them. But beyond just doing those ordinary things, there's nothing

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 24 June 2007 15:37, Peter Van Lone wrote: On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not that I recall. I've had this setup in place for quite a while, now. Of course, you have to configure the shared folders in the VM configuration dialog _and_ enable them. But beyond

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-24 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 6/24/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps it something about how you installed or configured VMware? I know the configuration Perl script asks you a lot of questions. One of them might bear on the availability of the shared folders function. If you've been carrying forward

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-23 Thread Daniel Feiglin
Kai Ponte wrote: Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based controls. In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfectly in a 1400x1050

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-23 Thread S Glasoe
On Friday June 22 2007 12:50:05 pm Kai Ponte wrote: On Fri, June 22, 2007 10:30 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 10:22, Alexey Eremenko wrote: On 6/22/07, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-23 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Saturday 23 June 2007 17:28, S Glasoe wrote: On Friday June 22 2007 12:50:05 pm Kai Ponte wrote: On Fri, June 22, 2007 10:30 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 10:22, Alexey Eremenko wrote: ... Alternatively, you could try VirtualBox. He's happy with what

[opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Kai Ponte
Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based controls. In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfectly in a 1400x1050 resolution with the application

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Alexey Eremenko
On 6/22/07, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based controls. In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Fri, June 22, 2007 10:30 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Friday 22 June 2007 10:22, Alexey Eremenko wrote: On 6/22/07, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Kai Ponte wrote: Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based controls. In any case, I've now gotten VMWare to run perfectly in a 1400x1050

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Kai Ponte
On Fri, June 22, 2007 10:54 am, Richard Creighton wrote: Kai Ponte wrote: Just an update on my Vista laptop that I wanted to switch over to SUSE. One of the things I needed it to do was run our main application, written in .net but requiring many Windows-based controls. In any case, I've

Re: [opensuse] Gotta Love that VM Ware!

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Creighton
Kai Ponte wrote: snip I would say you are running the Legacy as the host and emulating a Johnny-come-lately-rip-off-of-OS/2 using a great pair of a software equivalent of rubber gloves stamped 'VMWare' to prevent contaminationa very smart way to goone I whole heartedly agree with.