8.10b - first impression and questions, re:vbox

[Alan Dacey]

Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:57:37PM -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote:
>> Anyone know if Virtualbox works yet?,
> 
>     VBox with 8.10b as the host or guest?  If guest i know that a6 loads but
> the guest extensions don't all work.  Mouse works fine, screen does not.
> 
> 

It works in Vbox 2.0.2 but I had problems with 1.6 (or whatever it was).  You 
can fix the screen resolution by adding vboxvideo as the video device in your 
xorg.conf.

Like this:
Section "Device"
         Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
         Driver          "vboxvideo"
EndSection

It took me a while to find, but I have no problems.  The guest additions compile 
and work just like they are supposed to now.  I also read that if you're having 
problems with your mouse to add vboxmouse (?) to the mouse device.  I forgot the 
link but I found it on the vbox forums after some searching.
I'm running 8.10b as guest in vbox 2.0.2 on an up-to-date Kubuntu 8.04.  It also 
works on a 64-bit win 2003 server as a host.  After the last upgrade hell, I'm 
waiting to see other's problems before upgrading my host.

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