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Title: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: David McKenna on 2008.02.05, 03:20:52
  There is a new forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org - 'Virtualbox on OS/2 Hosts'! can an official release be far behind?
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: kim on 2008.02.05, 09:59:43
That would be great; guess that quite a few of us has been waiting for a official release.
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: David McKenna on 2008.02.06, 19:35:21
  Well, it looks like the best we get is 'Officially Unofficial' - builds by Innotek, but not supported: ftp://ftp.dmik.org/pub/common/vbox. At least NAT works now, along with Snapshots and shared folders!
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.06, 19:57:04
Are these builds from Paul still, or from Innotek themselves? And what does this mean for us? Officially Unofficial? Does this bring bad news..?

Also, what does the .dbg in the zip name signify?
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: David McKenna on 2008.02.06, 22:23:02
  I don't think Paul did them.... and I can't see how it is bad news, but - go to the forum and read.... the implication is they will provide OSE builds sporadically. Just like Paul has been doing. I guess dbg stands for 'debug'?
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: cytan on 2008.02.07, 04:19:34
I'd really love to download it and test it out, especially the networking part, but I won't have access to my OS/2 PC until Monday next week :(. Please, can somebody install it and report how it works.

Thanks!

cytan
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.07, 04:26:36
Ill give it a shot, I have used Paul's most recent build so I have something to benchmark this off of :)

One nice new thing is that a console window saying that the QT app hasn't been linked or whatever does not show up :P

Also, the flaky mouse I was having before seems to be much improved in this build, although it still loves to dart to the bottom of the screen at random.
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: cytan on 2008.02.08, 05:18:14
Quote from: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.07, 04:26:36
Ill give it a shot, I have used Paul's most recent build so I have something to benchmark this off of :)

One nice new thing is that a console window saying that the QT app hasn't been linked or whatever does not show up :P

Also, the flaky mouse I was having before seems to be much improved in this build, although it still loves to dart to the bottom of the screen at random.

What about networking? Does it work?

cytan
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.08, 05:27:12
I got pissed at how crappy gOS was before too long, so the only internet thing I did was use the Synaptic package manager, which worked, so I guess yeah, the internet works. The app still does not function in SMP mode, have access to host drives, USB storage, or audio. Also, the QT window still bugs out and chops itself up a bit here and there.
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: David McKenna on 2008.02.08, 06:20:33
  I have installed Windows 2000 and Fedora 8 on this latest VirtualBox using the QT version (VirtualBox.exe). Networking, shared folders, integrated mouse and variable screen size work great. Snapshots work along with seamless mode. I have had no mouse issues as reported by others - may be video card related (I am running a P4 processor with HT off, ATI Radeon 9600 AGP)? Maybe MARKEXE would help those with SMP boxes?

  There still is no direct CD, Floppy, USB or COM support (haven't tried the Pipe support yet though). No clipboard sharing. Over all, it seems to have better performance than VirtualPC for OS/2. IMO, once CD hardware support is added, VPC is history.
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: cytan on 2008.02.08, 17:45:43
Quote from: David McKenna on 2008.02.08, 06:20:33
  I have installed Windows 2000 and Fedora 8 on this latest VirtualBox using the QT version (VirtualBox.exe). Networking, shared folders, integrated mouse and variable screen size work great. Snapshots work along with seamless mode. I have had no mouse issues as reported by others - may be video card related (I am running a P4 processor with HT off, ATI Radeon 9600 AGP)? Maybe MARKEXE would help those with SMP boxes?

  There still is no direct CD, Floppy, USB or COM support (haven't tried the Pipe support yet though). No clipboard sharing. Over all, it seems to have better performance than VirtualPC for OS/2. IMO, once CD hardware support is added, VPC is history.


Sounds great! I'll compare VBox with SVista next week.
Pardon my ignorance, what is snapshot and seamless mode?

cytan
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.08, 17:57:05
Snapshot I believe is screencapture and seamless mode (I believe, never got around to it in VBOX) is when you install the guest additions. This allows you to move the mouse focus out of the guest window to the host machine without having to use the host keys and whatnot. It makes the whole experience much more enjoyable.
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: David McKenna on 2008.02.08, 20:35:46
 A snapshot is basically an archive of the virtual machine - you can have many different ones. Seamless mode is just a windows with no menu bar or status bar....
Title: Re: New forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.02.09, 03:10:24
Ah, well, ignore what I said completely then :)