On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 21:30 +0200, David Baron wrote: > 1. Emulated Devices > > Has anyone succeded in getting audio to work with Windows guests? How? > Windows > needs an "installable" device through which to play. Qemu provides this. A > recent post on this topic stated VirtualBox emulates AC97. This codec is > ubitiquitous but is fronted by some other chip, sometimes on the motherboard. > Windows (98) cannot detect what is being emulated, therefore, no audio.
Win98? WTF? Get an OS a bit more in line the times. :-) Sound works flawlessly for me with Win2k and WinXP guests. > PCI: It has been stated that vbox does not now emulate PCI. So Windows guest > device manager will indeed detect PCI devices but cannot identify them. > Halfway may be worse than none :-) The ideal may be not to emulate but to > arbitrate. > > The only installable device is the ethernet card! I use USB devices without any problems. > 2. Video > > Windows will also default to the junkiest vga video and say that is not > working correctly. On 32-bit (NT) based windows, the guest additons have an > alternative that can be installed with the device manager. Not on bad old > Win98. Qemu does provide emulation that is not flagged as not working and one > can change the display size at will, even on Win98. Did you install the VBox Guest Additions? If not, you are missing a lot. > 3. Communication with the guest (probably applies to all Windows guests, > maybe > linux guest as well). > > The default networking mode is good for surfing in the guest, little more. > (Qemu provides simpler host-like networking, however, I have not tried using > this for "communication" because) Qemus's raw images can easily be > loop-mounted with a 32k offset yielding a file system with which one can do > as one pleases. One can, of course, convert the VDI to DD, place or transfer > files, the convert back. Must be a better way :-) VBox probably wasn't designed to do some of those things, perhaps. I've found VBox's guest networking to be quite configurable. Read the user manual for more info. > Some questions would be: How to get Samba working in windows guests? Not enough info to answer that question. Do you want to install samba on the host and access shares from within a Windows guest? Or do you perhaps want to SMB share a folder in the Windows guest and mount it on the host? What's your host OS? > How to get full host networking in distros that do not have all the "tools" > cited in > the (farely difficult) instructions? Printing (Qemu provides an lp1 but I > have not tried it)? I print from a VBox guest to a network shared printer, as well as directly to other network printers. Are you trying to print from the guest to a printer attached to the host? If so, what kind of printer and how is it attached to the host? USB? LTPx? Serial? Again, more info will help in getting you correct answers. > OK, I could just use Qemu but Vbox does work much better all said and the > integrated UI is a great plus as well. ;-) -Jim P.
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