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 Posted: Aug 02, 2008 - 08:37 PM
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UPDATE
Hold on upgrading to 1.6.4 for a few days. They left a debugging routine activated by mistake and it's creating multi-megabyte log files. 
edit: a workaround is
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Note: Unfortunately a bug slipped in which can cause a large amount of logging data to be written to your home directory. You can workaround this by making sure you have VBOX_LOG_DEST=nofile in your environment variables.
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Posted: Sep 02, 2008 - 08:46 PM
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1.6.6 is out!
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Sun today released VirtualBox 1.6.6, a maintenance release with the following enhancements and fixes:
Host Installation
* VMM: fixed excessive logging (#1901)
* VMM: AMD-V stability fixes (#1685)
* GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (#1891)
* SATA: fixed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (#1941)
* SATA: fixed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (#1789)
* VBoxHeadless: don’t start the clipboard service (#1743)
* VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (#1960)
* VBoxManage: fixes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK files, now accepts removable media on Windows (#1869)
* VRDP: fixed communication with MS Remote Resktop Connection on MacOS X (#1337)
* VRDP: clipboard fixes (#1410)
* VRDP: fixed crash during PAM authentication (#1953)
* Shared Folders: fixed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed in Windows guests only (#1915)
* Shared Folders: don’t deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (#822)
* BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (#1957)
* OSE archive: added missing Makefiles (#1912)
* Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11)
* Linux hosts: one more fix for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (#1962)
* MacOS X hosts: shared folders unicode fix
* Solaris hosts: fixed link issue (#1840)
Documentation
* Documentation: added a note that jumbo frames don’t work (#1877)
* Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (#1892)
Windows Guest Additions
* Allow to downgrade the package
* Fixed corrupted installer icon on Windows 2000 (#1486)
* Fixed bug when creating intermediate directories (#1870)
* Implemented /xres=, /yres= and /depth= switches for the installer (#1990)
Linux Guest Additions
* Properly unregister the misc device when unloading the kernel module
* Fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions again (e.g. openSUSE 11)
* Attempt to fix the autostart issue of !VBoxClient with Mandriva guests (#1699)
* Fixed detection of patched Linux 2.6.18 kernels of RHEL5 / FC6 / CentOS 5.2 (#1899,#1973)
* Added new mount flags dmode, fmode, umask, dmask and fmask allowing to override the file mode (#1776)
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Posted: Sep 02, 2008 - 08:50 PM
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| even better, sun finally fixed the license issues, these are available as downloads too finally, open downloads, no steps... so the non free will be back in svmi soon! |
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Backup script [using rdiff-backup]: rd-h2.sh
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Posted: Sep 02, 2008 - 09:34 PM
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svmi 1.7.0, updated to handle new non ose packages.
Updated to offer lenny or etch, updated to offer 1.6.0-1.6.6 packages.
Updated to handle new guest additions package iso download.
Glad I waited and did nothing on this one, took a while to get the old stuff, so all you usb using non-ose vbox users, upgrades now automatic.
I should also mention that sun has debian repos too, but personally, I'm not a fan of virtual machines upgraded via du, I need my stuff to always work. |
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Posted: Sep 03, 2008 - 06:06 PM
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hello h2,
tried to upgrade my vbox with smxi on 2 sidux boxes, got 2 times the same problem see here:
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Reading package lists... Done
Installing required package libicu38 libxerces27 libxalan110 now...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
ReadinReading package lists... Done
Installing required package libicu38 libxerces27 libxalan110 now...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libicu38 is already the newest version.
Package libxerces27 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libxerces27 has no installation candidate
ERROR: (200) The package: libicu38 failed to install, please check apt for any problems.
Log file is located here: /var/log/svmi.log
Exiting script now.
Any idea ?
Thanks very much for your great work!
BR
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Posted: Sep 03, 2008 - 06:10 PM
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Posted: Sep 04, 2008 - 12:09 AM
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a few bugs fixed, fixed download url oddity, fixed missing dependency stuff, install is now working I think, at least so far.
Sun fooled me, I though this was a straight download, but it redirects and changes the download url, so i had to modify that part. |
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Posted: Sep 04, 2008 - 12:26 AM
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| I'm especially interested to see if there are any dependency issues on a fresh install, by the way. |
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Posted: Sep 04, 2008 - 04:16 AM
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| i've got 1.6.4 installed via the manual download and want to remove it, but can't figure out how so that i can install 1.6.6 from the repos. help please. |
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Posted: Sep 04, 2008 - 04:20 AM
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| ok, nevermind. i'm an idiot. kept trying ./Virt... --uninstall to no avail. without the '--' before uninstall, it came off cleanly. |
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Posted: Sep 04, 2008 - 04:24 AM
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| ok, next dumb question time: what is this svmi and how do i get/use it? |
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Posted: Sep 04, 2008 - 12:29 PM
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virtualbox installation with smxi worked now for the non-ose version with the etch-deb. But still some problem with the installation of the addons., don't know if this has something to do with the sun download server or the script ?
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Saving to: `VBoxGuestAdditions_1.6.6.iso?e=1220516204&h=1c51fb229218dc18b23d7687e78f1e95'
100%[======================================>] 10,094,592 337K/s in 29s
2008-09-04 10:12:14 (336 KB/s) - `VBoxGuestAdditions_1.6.6.iso?e=1220516204&h=1c51fb229218dc18b23d7687e78f1e95' saved [10094592/10094592]
Sorry, the download failed for some reason, let's find out why.
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Thanks h2 for the very quick fix as always.
BR
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Posted: Sep 04, 2008 - 01:14 PM
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VirtualBox 2.0.0 Released!
Downloads: i386 amd64
Changelog:
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VirtualBox 2.0.0 (released 2008-09-04)
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
* 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)
* New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts
* The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements
* New-version notifier
* Guest property information interface
* Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts
* New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts
* Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)
* Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)
* Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)
* Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests
* Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts
* Support for VHD disk images
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
* VMM: VT-x fixes
* AHCI/SATA: improved performance
* GUI: keyboard fixes
* Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if unregistering the DKMS module fails
* Linux additions: the guest screen resolution is properly restored
* Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)
* Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11
* Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn’t simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)
If you are a sidux64 user and have my repository activated, you can directly install it with
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apt-get update && apt-get install virtualbox-2.0
Greetings,
Chris |
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development is life - code.zikula.org
an operating system must operate - sidux.com
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Posted: Sep 04, 2008 - 04:05 PM
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Hi slam
Does this install a second version of virtualbox or does the 1.6 version get deleted? Does it find existing vdi's?
drb
[EDIT - Answer - yes, virtualbox is removed and virtualbox-2.0 is then installed and existing .vdi files found] |
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sidux Chaos fully dist-upgraded!
kernel 2.6.27-6.slh.5-sidux-686
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Posted: Sep 04, 2008 - 05:39 PM
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wora495, thanks, I forgot to check the addons download, sun is doing some fancy redirects there too, I'll have that fixed soon.
Re other questions, svmi always removes any installed instances of vbox, whether ose or non ose, when it it installs a new one. |
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sidux Maintenance script: dist-upgrade, kernel install, general utilities: smxi
Backup script [using rdiff-backup]: rd-h2.sh
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