Chris, I am using the latest version of virtualbox (2.0.6) and the latest version of Ubuntu. The only little difficulty was related to the loading of the additions (Auto does not work, so you have to do it from a terminal session). Speed not an issue, but my host is windows 2008. In my experience Vista (your host) is an incredible resource hog, and might be the cause of your problems.
Marc 972-800-2150 www.Amazingcomputing.biz -----Original Message----- From: Chris Hallsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:24 PM To: Marc Beck Webmail; VirtualBox end user list Subject: Re: [vbox-users] Networking - PLEASE HELP Hi Mark and all, I personally found Ubuntu guests to be quite slow using VirtualBox 1.6.6 compared to Windows guests. Now as I'm registered blind I require speech, which Ubuntu has out of the box, but that shouldn't make a difference in performance. Will performance to Ubuntu guests improve with future VirtualBox versions? I find Ubuntu to be pretty slick when I used VMware, and couldn't even get the boot menu to load when I tried Ubuntu through Parallels for Windows. This is all on my Vista host. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. -- Chris Hallsworth e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: chrishallsworth7266 klango: chrishallsworth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Beck Webmail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:15 PM Subject: [vbox-users] Networking - PLEASE HELP > Sorry if this is not the right place for my question, and for being a NB > in Unix in general & OpenSolaris especially > > I did set up a windows 2008 host, loaded sun virtualbox on it, and > installed successfully Vista Guest, XP guest, Ubuntu Guest, solving all > the little issues I encountered. In the process I created 2 host virtual > interfaces, that I bridged in the 2008 server, and used host interfaces in > my virtualbox. Doing so allowed me to see my local network and see/access > other machines shared drives, print server... > > I then proceeded with an OpenSolaris virtual guest, by far the most > challenging. I got it up, but no sound and NO BROWSING. > > I created a new host interface, included it in the bridge in the host. I > did configure the guest with a static IP. From the guest I can ping > anything within my local LAN, and I can access my router, log in, and see > all the settings. In other words, I am obviously connected locally. > However.. > > If I try to ping anything in the outside world, such as the DNS servers, > the ping fails. > All other machines, hosts & guests, connect without any problems. This > email is send from my webmail interface accessed from the windows 2008 > host. > > Has anybody any idea what it might be, and how to solve it? I can email as > attachment a printscreen from the ifconfig results on the solaris guest if > needed. > > Thanks > Marc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Marc Beck, MSE, MBA > Business Consultant/Project Manager > 972-800-2150 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Impossible is my Dream" > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
