Hi Armindo, What you said worked well. I must remember that I can only have 1 version of virtual box installed at any time, and that I can install and uninstall without having to worry about loosing the VMs Thanks! Hugh
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 19:19:38 Armindo Silva wrote: > Hi, > > If you uninstall the OSE edition you'll keep your VMs (unless you've > been messing with the source/installation they are inside the > .VirtualBox folder inside your $HOME). > I am not sure but i don't believe it's possible to have both > installed, because of the kernel modules (maybe if you have them on > non default places and manually load the relevant ones depending which > version you want to run - just guessing here :) > > > Cheers > > Armindo > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:03 AM, hugh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been using VirtualBox on a Mandriva host with a winXP guest for some > > time, but am > > new to the list! > > I have the latest Mandie (2009.1) which includes VBox 2.2.0. > > > > I am wanting/needing to use USB devices in my guest O/S. > > I gather to do this I need PUEL version. > > I have the OSE version installed, yet when I install the PUEL 'nothing > > seems to happen'. > > Is it possible to install two versions of virtual box? > > Could someone please explain how to do this (or point me at the > > documentation > > I am having trouble finding!!!) > > > > (If I have to uninstall OSE to install PUEL will I loose my virtual > > machines etc? Is there any way to keep them?) > > > > Thanks!! > > > > Hugh > > _______________________________________________ > > vbox-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
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