8.10b - first impression and questions, re:vbox

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008 06:15:27 Alan Dacey wrote:
> 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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> complicated concept.  If you are very lucky you may attain *the* most
> satisfying thing in life and actually grok it."
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> Things I grok: 0
What about as the host (8.10 host, xp guest?)

mike
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