On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:33:37PM +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> Man this is *strange*.
>
> I have been running Windows XP as guest on both Windows XP and
> openSUSE Linux 10.2 without issues at all. (with additions or without)
Well, this is on Kubuntu Edgy, though that's also a popular distro. Some
other particulars:
Video card is nvidia 7600 and X screen is very large -- 2560 x 1600
I'm surprised that vbox needs guest additions to handle the mouse and
keyboard. It's very hard to use it without them. A number of other
virtualizers I have seen have no problem with having their synthetic mouse
and keyboard devices simply act idle when the window does not have focus,
and provide mouse events when the mouse passes over the window and keyboard
events when the window has focus. I realize that guest additions are
needed for advanced video modes, and much easier for sound and shared drives.
For my linux guests, I don't even want them to run X. Without that,
at least for me, the guest additions did not appear to work in console mode.
What I end up doing is creating an ssh tunnel into the VM. That would be
another handy feature, in natted mode, to allow the specification of port
forwarding. That would mean that, for example, I could forward a port on
the host machine I specify to port 22 on the guest machine. Then I could
fire up the guest machine as a virgin machine, no guest additions, and no
keyboard interaction of any kind, and ssh to it, pretty much the way you
connect to remote servers anyway. If one is testing from there you can
copy in files, or create other forwarded ports via ssh if that's easier
to test web serving, email etc.
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