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

2010-03-09 Thread James Mansion
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 grounds for doing so. I suspect that if Oracle don't sponsor major engineering in

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

2010-03-09 Thread James Mansion
Fernando Cassia wrote: I think that if a huge comet strikes the Earth, we will ALL DIE. Shame, well, I was trying to make a point that GPL code is not immortal in some way. Let's try to be adult, huh? I like vbox and use it as a preferred solution. If it dies, its no big deal though,

Re: [vbox-users] MirBSD-current/i386 in VirtualBox 3.0.0_BETA1 r48728

2009-06-18 Thread James Mansion
Thorsten Glaser wrote: Immediately terminates with SIGILL – so my earlier laudat was *too* early, and VirtualBox is *still* broken and unusable for anything real, unless you have Vanderpool/Pacifica, in which case most are better off using kvm anyway. Hmm - seems to run Solaris OK at the

Re: [vbox-users] MirBSD-current/i386 in VirtualBox 3.0.0_BETA1 r48728

2009-06-18 Thread James Mansion
Thorsten Glaser wrote: James Mansion dixit: Be nice if it could support NetBSD though. 5.0 still will not install. Not even in HVM mode? Or doesn't it boot at all, like in Parallels? Dead stop after the loader gets the initial root. Haven't managed to find settings that work

Re: [vbox-users] Very poor performance on internal network, 2.2.2

2009-06-03 Thread James Mansion
James Mansion wrote: Klaus Espenlaub wrote: Since this is no trivial thing, it's probably best to open a ticket in the bug tracker on virtualbox.org. Please attach the exact configuration info (VBox.log will do), and also a packet trace as described on http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki

Re: [vbox-users] Very poor performance on internal network, 2.2.2

2009-05-20 Thread James Mansion
Klaus Espenlaub wrote: Since this is no trivial thing, it's probably best to open a ticket in the bug tracker on virtualbox.org. Please attach the exact configuration info (VBox.log will do), and also a packet trace as described on http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Network_tips Ticket is 4064.

[vbox-users] Very poor performance on internal network, 2.2.2

2009-05-19 Thread James Mansion
I'm trying to PXE boot across an internal network. I load gPXE and all goes well until it starts trying to load bzImage and initrd files from an HTTP server. The server is (X)ubuntu 9.04, running lighttpd or apache2 (same behaviour with both). Sometimes - very infrequently - I get high

Re: [vbox-users] Ubuntu 9.04 and guest editions

2009-04-26 Thread James Mansion
dick hoogendijk wrote: The guest editions install fine on Ubuntu 9.04. Shared folders work, the video driver works, BUT the mouse driver does not work. There is NO Shared folders don't work for me. Also the video driver didn't pick up the right resolution on my laptop, I had to hack

Re: [vbox-users] Ubuntu 9.04 guests

2009-04-24 Thread James Mansion
Daniel wrote: Has anybody else had a problem installing Ubuntu 9.04 (ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso) guest with Virtual box 2.2 (VirtualBox-2.2.0-45846-OSX.dmg) on MacOS 10.5.6 host? The installer dies halfway through the installation with an error saying something like, there was a problem

[vbox-users] Shared folders

2009-04-24 Thread James Mansion
I can't mmount a shared folder with vbox 2.2 (Vista host, assorted Linux guests including openSUSE 11.1 and Xubuntu 9.04, PUEL). GAs build OK. mount.vboxsf says 'protocol error' though. (It does run though, its not as if the GA installation lied) Also, I seem to get the VBox GUI hanging

[vbox-users] Trouble with 2.2 and Debian 5 under Vista

2009-04-18 Thread James Mansion
Is it me or some issues with the software? Had VMWare workstation on my old portable and I could generally install so that I had an address assigned by a VMWare local DHCP server and also a local DNS proxy in VMWare which delegates to the DNS server that is assigned to my portable by my LAN

[vbox-users] Problems with 2.0.6 and 2.1.0 on XP

2008-12-20 Thread James Mansion
Hi, I've been a happy VMWare Workstation user for some time and thought I'd try VBox because I expected the OpenSolaris guest support to be a bit better. And it is - when VBox works at all. I run a portable with 1.25GB RAM, XPsp3, and a 1.5GHz Pentium-M processor. Its not shiny and new -

Re: [vbox-users] Problems with 2.0.6 and 2.1.0 on XP

2008-12-20 Thread James Mansion
James Mansion wrote: As I write I have a failed startup in the background. Its using no CPU at all but is unresponsive and making no progress: it has displayed the little 'Restoring virtual...' progress meter but that's stuck at 0%. And - a complete reboot and retry has hung in exactly