[VBox-users] Some USB pen-drive does not show in My Computer

2015-08-14 Thread Ron
ith # fdisk -l and it shows, like others that do show up in My Computer, as W95 FAT32. Any idea ? Cheers, Ron. -- He who says it cannot be done should never interrupt he who is doing it. -- h

[VBox-users] Another newbee (stupid ?) question

2015-08-17 Thread Ron
Once the Vbox additions iso has been mounted and installed once, is there any need to have it mounted again in following sessions of that guest system ? Cheers, Ron. -- Monday is the root of all evil. -- http

Re: [VBox-users] Some USB pen-drive does not show in My Computer

2015-08-17 Thread Ron
file to the pen-drive causes the guest to crash; other times, on connecting the pen-drive, a window opens to say the drive must be formatted; and when I click to format, the guest crashes. Cheers, Ron. -- Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delu

Re: [VBox-users] Another newbee (stupid ?) question

2015-08-17 Thread Ron
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 18:19:19 -0300 Fernando Cassia wrote: > No, just unmount it, thereĀ“s no need to install it again, until you update > the version of Virtualbox and then you have to download and install the > corresponding guest additions for that version. Ta. Chee

[VBox-users] Characters size ?

2016-09-18 Thread Ron
After upgrading to 5.1.6 I now have, for all the texts in the VB window, a font size so small that it makes it impossible to use. Is there a way to change the display font size ? Cheers, Ron. -- The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you

[VBox-users] A display problem

2016-11-16 Thread Ron
Since upgrading to 5.0 I have a problem in that the display in both the VB main window and in the menus of the guest OS windows are of such small size as to make them very difficult to read. VB 5.1.8 under Debian Wheezy. Cheers, Ron. -- La politique est l'art d

Re: [VBox-users] Problems installing EXT pack 4.2.4 and4.2.6

2013-01-02 Thread Ron Reb
The only way I got mine to work was a reformat. I inadvertently had 2 copies of VBox in the registry and, even though I uninstalled both, the registry kept giving me errors. Everything works fine now. My bad that I picked the default install on the C drive at first instead of the intended D Drive.

[VBox-users] GUI character size

2017-09-18 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
, Ron. -- Ars imitatio naturae est. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- -- Check out

Re: [VBox-users] Windows VMs do not adapt to high-res screen

2017-10-16 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
Did you make sure that the "Auto-resize Guest Display" option in the VBox View menu is checked? Ron On 16/10/17 07:10 AM, Jonathan Pratschke wrote: Dear Tom, thanks for your suggestion - but the host has the correct video resolution, the problem is with the guest. Cheers, Jon

Re: [VBox-users] DHCP lease not correct if VM moved to new subnet

2017-10-19 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
o drop the lease and request a new one. Not sure if that would help in your situation. Ron -- Ron Hunter-Duvar | Senior Principal Developer | 403-775-2855 Oracle Solutions Engineering Gulf Canada Square 401 - 9th Avenue S.W., Calgary, AB, Canada T2P 3C5 All opinions expressed here are mine, and do

Re: [VBox-users] Windows VMs do not adapt to high-res screen

2017-10-23 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
should tell you want X sees as the current and valid settings. With most modern distros and hardware, this usually all gets handled automatically with edid. But I suspect the guest is not getting that info from VBox. Ron On 23/10/17 08:43 AM, Jonathan Pratschke wrote: Dear Michael,

Re: [VBox-users] rdesktop-vrdp for Pi3/3+? ? ? or state of RDP Thin Clients on PI3/3+

2018-04-18 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:43:06 + (UTC) S390 wrote: > I am afraid that won't be an option. Raspbian is the only route. And what about the ARM version of Devuan ? Cheers, Ron. -- Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does k

Re: [VBox-users] Announcement: VirtualBox 5.2.12 and 5.1.38 released

2018-05-10 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
ng that an update will fix a break in "Auto-resize Guest Display" that seems to be due to a kernel header incompatibility in Oracle Linux 7.5. Thanks, Ron -- Ron Hunter-Duvar | Senior Principal Developer | 403-775-2855 Oracle Advanced Customer Services Gulf Canada Square 401 - 9th

[VBox-users] Returning to VB after years of neglect

2021-02-22 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
installed, and running under VB, they have all disappeared. Is there a way to change the text size of the display, and to recover the previously installed OS'es ? I see that my version of VB has over the years been upgraded to 6.0 Cheers, Ron. -- Government lies

[VBox-users] Removing VBox.

2022-07-28 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
I have uninstalled VBox from my desktop, but still see at boot time mention of VBoxd in the boot process, which probably slows it a bit. Where / how do I get rid of those relicts ? Cheers, Ron. -- If all else fails, read the

Re: [VBox-users] Gratitude

2011-08-16 Thread Ron K. Jeffries
. Why? so I can easily test new things with reckless abandon. And because I can. ;) --- Ron K. Jeffries 805-567-4670 On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 13:56, kris gale wrote: > i get the impression from the user forum that there's a lot of kibitzing > over VirtualBox, but in my case, now

Re: [VBox-users] VBox auto load Windows on a Mac?

2011-12-08 Thread Ron K. Jeffries
Steve Jobs is turning in his grave after seeing this message. ;) --- Ron K. Jeffries 805-567-4670 @ronkjeffries On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 08:23, Doug Smith wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible to setup VBox on a Mac so that it auto > loads when the computer boots? If that&#x