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 Posted: Apr 27, 2008 - 05:36 PM
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usb and shared folders are now solid in vmware, and have been for a while. last year shared folders weren't working, even with hacks, now they just work. usb has always worked since I started using it.
I'm hoping that sun releases fully free vbox with usb support sooner than later. |
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Post subject: No full-screen mode for hardy heron?
Posted: May 02, 2008 - 08:33 AM
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| I have 1.5.6 non-ose installed, and ever since I created a vm for the new Ubuntu, vbox goes into full screen mode, but Ubuntu doesn't. Haven't had this problem with other distros I've played around with....hmmm, does Ubuntu not play nicely with vbox? |
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Posted: May 02, 2008 - 08:43 AM
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Just an abstract thought...
Did you set the correct screen-resolution in ubuntu? |
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Posted: May 02, 2008 - 08:45 AM
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shame
I've had no problems with USB printers, scanners, cameras, webcam etc. etc. with vbox non-OSE 1.5.6. Only no firewire support . . .
drb |
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Posted: May 02, 2008 - 08:59 AM
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BelaLugosi wrote:
Just an abstract thought...
Did you set the correct screen-resolution in ubuntu?
Actually, I thought of that, but the only available choices were 800x600 and 640x480. Maybe I'll try another method. |
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Posted: May 02, 2008 - 09:10 AM
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same thing here with vb non ose 1.5.6 on sidux64
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Posted: May 02, 2008 - 09:30 AM
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| Have you installed the "VirtualBox Guest Additions"? With that, you should be able to change the screen resolution. |
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Posted: May 02, 2008 - 09:37 AM
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yes, guest additions installed. no change.
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Posted: May 02, 2008 - 09:45 AM
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| Uhm.. and if you have modify the Virtualbox properties? Maybe the x.org config by hand? .. Maybe it would work.. I used Virtualbox yesterday, and worked like a charm. You can adjust many things in Virtualbox, so keep trying... (mainly on display section and so on) |
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Posted: May 02, 2008 - 10:56 AM
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i tried to modify xorg.conf, but the sections are different from then in "our sidux". I will go on and try.
Thanks,
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Posted: May 03, 2008 - 01:17 AM
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Well, I added the guest additions, and it should allow resizing of the guest OS, but it doesn't work. I'm not sure the answer is in xorg.conf unless there is a separate one for Vbox that I'm unaware of, because there is no section in xorg.conf for VirtualBox per se.
And getting back to my original point in starting this discussion,
other distros go into full screen mode without any problem.
Only Ubuntu 8.04 seems to have a problem (I admit, haven't tried any previous Ubuntu's in vbox). So, I do have to wonder...
unfortunately, when I Google virtualbox and Ubuntu, I just get a lot of pages on how to get vbox running on Ubuntu (apparently they departed from the Debian way of using certain files), but nothing on running Hardy in virtualbox. Oh well, it's really not a big deal for me, I was just trying out Ubuntu to familiarize myself with it a bit - but perhaps other users need something in Ubuntu (don't know what that would be) and this is a problem if they don't want to install it to the hard drive. |
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Posted: May 04, 2008 - 12:55 PM
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Have you tried it with 1.6?
VirtualBox 1.6.0 (released 2008-04-30)
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
* Solaris and Mac OS X host support
* Seamless windowing for Linux and Solaris guests
* Guest Additions for Solaris
* A webservice API
* SATA hard disk (AHCI) controller
* Experimental Physical Address Extension (PAE) support
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
* GUI: added accessibility support (508)
* GUI: VM session information dialog
* VBoxHeadless: renamed from VBoxVRDP
* VMM: reduced host CPU load of idle guests
* VMM: many fixes for VT-x/SVM hardware-supported virtualization
* ATA/IDE: better disk geometry compatibility with VMware images
* ATA/IDE: virtualize an AHCI controller
* Storage: better write optimization, prevent images from growing unnecessarily.
* Network: support PXE booting with NAT
* Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for Nexenta guests
* NAT: improved builtin DHCP server (implemented DHCPNAK response)
* NAT: port forwarding stopped when restoring the VM from a saved state
* NAT: make subnet configurable
* XPCOM: moved to libxml2
* XPCOM: fixed VBoxSVC autostart race
* Audio: SoundBlaster 16 emulation
* USB: fixed problems with USB 2.0 devices
* MacOS X: fixed seamless mode
* MacOS X: better desktop integration, several look’n’feel fixes
* MacOS X: switched to Quartz2D framebuffer
* MacOS X: added support for shared folders
* MacOS X: added support for clipboard integration
* Solaris: added host audio playback support (experimental)
* Solaris: made it possible to run VirtualBox from non-global zones
* Shared Folders: made them work for NT4 guests
* Shared Folders: many bugfixes to improve stability
* Seamless windows: added support for Linux guests
* Linux installer: support DKMS for compiling the kernel module
* Linux host: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.25
* Windows host: support for USB devices has been significantly improved; many additional USB devices now work
* Windows Additions: automatically install AMD PCNet drivers on Vista guests
* Linux additions: several fixes, experimental support for RandR 1.2
* Linux additions: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.25 |
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Posted: May 08, 2008 - 04:56 PM
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Thanks, Scrooge. Upgrading and installing Guest Additions
did the trick.
BTW, seamless mode is kinda cool, too. |
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Posted: May 17, 2008 - 08:19 PM
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| seamless rocks. What id like to know is; how do I get to run seamless virtualbox on one desktop, and still be able to rotate/ switch desktops without having to minimize it (as soon as vbox is seamless it grabs all keyboard input...) ? |
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Posted: Jun 07, 2008 - 08:47 AM
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Hi Folks,
1.6.2 is released, check it out 
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tyche |
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