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VirtualBox and ArcaOS 5.0.7

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Dariusz Piatkowski:
Andreas, everyone...


--- Quote from: Andreas Schnellbacher on December 09, 2021, 12:04:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on December 08, 2021, 08:56:27 pm ---1) Video: Should I select Panorama on the install, or it does not make a different with the default gengrad for VirtualBox?

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The video driver is replaced by the driver from the Guest Additions. My experience is that it doesn't matter. But why let Panorama (or SNAP) create additional non-functional notebook pages in the Screen object? See the first AN screenshot of the installer, below 'ArcaOS Installation'. It has GENGRADD selected.

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Agreed, unless you specifically want to use functionality provided by a specific video driver.

In my case, every desktop machine here (home) has multiple monitors attached to it. If I want my VM session to span multiple displays (so multi-head) that would require me to deploy SNAP drivers, unless of course the multi-head functionality provided by the HOST OS is sufficient and one simply works in OS/2 as if the display was a real VERY large physical display.

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Dariusz Piatkowski on December 09, 2021, 07:27:08 pm ---Agreed, unless you specifically want to use functionality provided by a specific video driver.

In my case, every desktop machine here (home) has multiple monitors attached to it. If I want my VM session to span multiple displays (so multi-head) that would require me to deploy SNAP drivers, unless of course the multi-head functionality provided by the HOST OS is sufficient and one simply works in OS/2 as if the display was a real VERY large physical display.

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Have you tried spanning multiple monitors in a virtual machine? I'd assume that it is mot supported but don't really know.

Dariusz Piatkowski:
Hi Dave,


--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on December 09, 2021, 11:04:07 pm ---Have you tried spanning multiple monitors in a virtual machine? I'd assume that it is mot supported but don't really know.

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Nope, not personally...but I recently moved a physical XP install into a VM and was surprised to see so many options...I could have sworn that multi-head was one of them. Needless to say, since my XP image did not make use of this I wouldn't have been able to try it out anyways.

Now I'm thinking that for this kind of a thing to work, you'd have to use a fullscreen VM session to start of with.

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Dariusz Piatkowski on December 09, 2021, 11:13:30 pm ---Hi Dave,


--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on December 09, 2021, 11:04:07 pm ---Have you tried spanning multiple monitors in a virtual machine? I'd assume that it is mot supported but don't really know.

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Nope, not personally...but I recently moved a physical XP install into a VM and was surprised to see so many options...I could have sworn that multi-head was one of them. Needless to say, since my XP image did not make use of this I wouldn't have been able to try it out anyways.

Now I'm thinking that for this kind of a thing to work, you'd have to use a fullscreen VM session to start of with.

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Looking into it, at least with Windows, it can work. Need to install the additions, which likely similar to us includes a video driver, set things up correctly in VBox and go with a full screen VM. I'd guess the VBox specific video driver has to support multiple monitors, so unlikely that SNAP would work, I'd assume it is in VBE mode rather then actually supporting your ATI card.

jailbird:

--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on December 09, 2021, 12:05:29 am ---Hi

Just as a related thing I asked on VirtualBox forum where should someone create a new "Type / Version" on the "Create New VM" menĂº, so ArcaOS 5.0.x can be included.

I was pointed to this segment of the code.

It seems it is hard coded, a new one can be included. This is the one for eComStation.


--- Code: ---422     { "OS2",     "IBM OS/2",          "OS2eCS",             "eComStation",
423       VBOXOSTYPE_ECS,             VBOXOSHINT_HWVIRTEX | VBOXOSHINT_FLOPPY,
424       1,  256,   4,  2 * _1G64, GraphicsControllerType_VBoxVGA, NetworkAdapterType_Am79C973, 1, StorageControllerType_PIIX4, StorageBus_IDE,
425       StorageControllerType_PIIX4, StorageBus_IDE, ChipsetType_PIIX3, IommuType_None, AudioControllerType_AC97, AudioCodecType_STAC9700  },
--- End code ---

Regards

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I sent a patch to the VBox mailing list a while back asking them to add it and was ignored :(.

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