On 05/22/2010 05:26 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 05/21/2010 11:05 AM, NoOp wrote: > ... >> Now, on second thought... I _had_ previously click to add the USB >> keyboard (Dell L100) via the Devices drop down. That killed the keyboard >> for both host & guest so I had to hard reboot to get back. I wonder if >> perhaps it left a trace in the xml file somewhere. I've 'purged' VB & >> reinstalled. However I didn't delete the ~/.VirtualBox folder as I >> didn't want to have to try and recreate the WinXP vmdk. I'll try that >> today if I can't find anything obvious in the xml files. >> It's a test machine w/nothing important on the WinXP drive, so if I >> bork something it won't matter much. I am trying to get the process down >> so that I can do it on some of my other machines that do have real data >> on them. Thanks for the suggestion. > > Reinstalled everything & got it working. Of course I had to reactivate > WinXP & it's pretty slow just now (host is a 1.8Ghz 512Mb & only > allocated 192Mb of memory for the test so that's to be expected) but is > working. Now I wonder if installing the 3.2 guest additions is recommended?
Sorry... trying not to 'blog' here, but: - installed guest additions for 3.2 - works just fine - increased the memory allocation to 300MB and performance is acceptable on this test machine. Of course the host is a little slower, but that's expected (in this case I think). - checked Control Panel|System|Device Manager & no yellow tags on devices (everything is working). - Still a lot to test yet, but it's pretty cool to actually see this working on the test machine! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
