[DigeratiPrime]

Awesome thanks for the news

[Jeremy]

I tried to start my VMware disk with VirtualBox and it just sits there with a black screen. Anyone else experiencing this?

[bj-kaiser]

Jeremy, on Jun 10 2007, 12:35 AM, said:

I tried to start my VMware disk with VirtualBox and it just sits there with a black screen. Anyone else experiencing this?

Um, sorry but am I the only one that doesn't find any hint about compatibility of the VirtualBox hdd image with the format VMware uses?



edit: oops, after reading the manual i found the part where it says one can use VMDK files.

This post has been edited by bj-kaiser: 10 June 2007 - 02:51 AM

[Jeremy]

bj-kaiser, on Jun 10 2007, 05:44 AM, said:

edit: oops, after reading the manual i found the part where it says one can use VMDK files.

Obviously I wouldn't try it if it didn't say it in the changelog... we're not all as dumb as door knobs...

[Idontwantspam]

Has anyone gotten it to work with Ubuntu 7? there's no indication on their supported guest OS page whether or not it works, so I'll assume for now the answer is no, which is a bummer.

I had a BSOD and USB messup with a previous version, but it appears that's been fixed. So far, I like this. However, they need a converter, to change MS VHDs to their type, since all my virtual hard disks are .vhd right now.

[jaclaz]

Idontwantspam said:

However, they need a converter, to change MS VHDs to their type, since all my virtual hard disks are .vhd right now.

Hmmm, to be a little picky , it's you that are in the need for the converter, NOT them.



jaclaz

[Idontwantspam]

True. I apologize.

[DigeratiPrime]

VirtualBox 1.5.0 (released 2007-09-03)

* Major: Seamless windows
* Major: Virtual serial ports
* Major: Support for 64-bit Windows hosts
* Major: Intel PXE 2.1 network boot
* Major: Guest Additions for IBM OS/2 Warp
* GUI: sometimes two mouse cursors were visible when Windows guest additions became active
* GUI: added VT-x/AMD-V settings
* GUI: disable 'Show log...' menu entry to prevent crash if VM list is empty
* GUI: the log window grabbed the keyboard
* GUI: fixed error handling if Linux host clipboard initialization fails
* GUI: pass the Pause key and the PrtScrn key to the guest (Linux hosts)
* GUI: increased maximum guest RAM to 2 GB (Windows host)
* GUI: improved rendering performance (Windows host)
* GUI: status lights for USB and shared folders
* GUI: properly respect the DISPLAY environment variable
* GUI: download Guest Additions from virtualbox.org in case they are not present locally
* VRDP: support for multimonitor configurations in Windows guests
* VRDP: support for MS RDP6 and MS RDP Mac clients
* VRDP: added support for WinConnect RDP client
* VRDP: performance improvements
* VRDP: fixed sporadic client disconnects
* VBoxManage: never delete existing target during clonevdi
* VBoxManage: properly print the size of currently used hard disks
* VMM: fixed Xandros Desktop 4.1 hang
* VMM: fixed VT-x/AMD-V hang with newer versions of gcc (Linux hosts)
* VMM: improved stability of VT-x
* VMM: check for disabled AMD-V when detecting support
* VMM: fixed AMD-V issue when running OS/2 guests
* VMM: fixed application startup regressions (e.g. VideoReDo)
* VMM: fixed regression that broke disk access in OS/2 and OpenBSD guests (possibly much more)
* VMM: fixed crashes if memory allocation failed (Linux)
* VMM: fixed enabling of Local APIC on AMD hosts (fixed Ubuntu Feisty installation kernel hang during boot)
* VMM: fixed XFree86 4.3 (Debian/Sarge) segfaults when switching to text mode
* VMM: refuse to start when KVM is active (Linux Host)
* VMM: fixed bootup hangs with ReactOS
* VMM: fixed out-of-memory errors under certain environments with enough appropriate memory available
* API: fixed occassional crashes of the VBoxSVC server during VM shutdown (Linux host)
* API: some components were not notified when mounting a CD/DVD
* VMDK: improve geometry compatibility with existing VDMK images
* IDE/Floppy: optionally make non-available host device non-fatal
* IDE: improve emulation accuracy of the IRQ line between master and slave drive
* IDE: guest could freeze when unmounting the CD/DVD drive
* VGA: several text mode fixes in particular with Windows DOS boxes
* USB: fixed some issues with Windows hosts
* USB: fixed race condition between udev and USB filters (Linux host)
* Shared Folders: reversed network provider order to increase mapping performance (Windows guest)
* Shared Folders: browsable from Windows Explorer (Windows guests)
* Shared Folders: stability fixes (Windows guest)
* Shared Folders: case sensitivity fixes (Windows guest and Linux host)
* Audio: fall back to the NULL audio driver if no voice could be opened
* NAT: fixed crash
* Guest Additions: reworked the shared clipboard for Linux hosts and guests based on user feedback about problems with individual applications
* Guest Additions: don't allow to disable mouse pointer integration for Linux guests as an Xorg hardware mouse cursor cannot be turned into a software mouse cursor
* Guest Additions: Linux guests shipping Xorg 1.3 (e.g. Fedora 7, Ubuntu Gutsy) are now supported
* Guest Additions: added DirectDraw support to the Windows display driver

[ripken204]

64bit thanks!!!

[Camarade_Tux]

Wow !

I had vmware server and never really cared about the difference.
However I recently formatted and didn't feel like downloading a 110MB installer which takes tens of minutes to proceed.
I installed windows without problems from a CD I and then set up shared folders with more ease then under vmware.
Finally I installed ocaml : mingw, msys and a big compilation which took the same time than outside the virtual machine !

This post has been edited by Camarade_Tux: 29 September 2007 - 12:19 PM

[Camarade_Tux]

I made some tests : 7-zip is only 10% slower than native. I'd say this is caused by the memory, not the cpu.

Also, enabling amd virtualization support prevented both windows XP and slax from booting correctly.

[cluberti]

Until they support the .vhd format, I probably won't use it. It's nice and fast, but I can't run my current VM images in it without imaging them first or reinstalling completely, and that wasted time offsets the benefits of the additional speed for me.

Nice product though .

[Camarade_Tux]

I wanted to create a universal file parsing library in ocaml.
VHD files should be good tests for it.

[Wesmosis]

smooth and fast
awesome! !

[Brando569]

Zxian, on Jan 19 2007, 05:05 AM, said:

@crahak - Sure... but for someone like me (and I'm sure I'm not alone here), VirtualBox does exactly what I need. I don't make use of scripts, remote administration, etc etc. I want something that I can test my latest XPlode config, or a new Linux distro, or something like that. A computer within a computer - nothing more - nothing less. Many people here like to use VMware to test out their nLite ISOs before installing them on their real PCs.

I don't think that anyone would argue that VirtualBox is a replacement for VMware, but it's a pretty good freeware alternative.

you took the words right out of my mouth i dont need all the advanced stuff, actually i hate it when vmware installs all of those services and virtual network connections. all i want to see is if my stuff installed correctly and go from there! i keep on forgetting to buy DVD-RWs for the final product, i gotta remember to buy them.

[DigeratiPrime]

so much faster than vmware still want drag/drop support though...

http://www.virtualbox.org/
http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.2/V...5.2_Win_x86.msi
http://www.virtualbo.../UserManual.pdf
http://www.virtualbo.../wiki/Changelog

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VirtualBox 1.5.2 (released 2007-10-18)

* Windows Installer: fixed installation on Windows 2000 hosts
* Windows Installer: proper warning when installing a 32-bit VirtualBox version on 64-bit Windows and vice versa
* Linux Installer: no longer require license acceptance during install, instead at first GUI startup (addresses issues with hanging installer on Debian based distributions)
* GUI: added user registration dialog
* GUI: fixed crashes on 64-bit Linux hosts
* GUI: several fixes and improvements to seamless mode
* GUI: fixed DirectDraw mode with certain video cards (e.g. Intel i915)
* GUI: fixed incorrect guest resolution after leaving fullscreen mode
* GUI: improved keyboard handling on Linux host
* GUI: show fatal VM aborts (aka "Guru Meditation")
* GUI: fixed crashes due to a display update race condition on some systems
* GUI: added ACPI shutdown option to the VM close dialog
* GUI: NLS improvements
* BIOS: fixed floppy boot menu
* BIOS: expose the VM UUID in the DMI/SMBIOS area
* VGA: fixed CGA video modes
* VGA: fixed 8-bit DAC handling (Solaris setup)
* VMM: fixed issue with VT-x on Windows 64-bit hosts
* VMM: improved compatibility with Linux KVM
* VMM: fixed issues with Fedora 8 guests
* VMM: fixed fatal errors while installing Windows guests when using AMD-V
* VMM: fixed sporadic hangs when minimizing VM window and using VT-x/AMD-V
* VMM: fixed high load of ksoftirq on tickless Linux hosts
* VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guests hangs related to IRQ sharing
* VMM: fixed sporadic errors during openSUSE 10.3 installation
* VMM: fixed issue with Linux 2.6.23 guests
* VMM: fixed issues with Solaris guests
* VMM: fixed stability issue related to incorrect relocations
* Serial: significantly reduced CPU utilization
* Network: fixed issues with FreeBSD guests
* Network: added MII support (100MBit detection fix)
* Network: improved MAC address handling
* Network: added PXE release logging
* IDE: large reads from CD could exceed the I/O buffer size
* Audio: load ALSA dynamically on Linux (i.e. do not fail when ALSA is not present)
* VRDP: support additional RDP clients (SunRay, WinConnect, Mac OS X)
* VRDP: fixed issues when client color depth is higher than server color depth
* VRDP: make PAM authentication service name configurable
* VRDP: increased stack size to deal with stack consuming PAM library calls
* Additions: various fixes and enhancements to clipboard handling
* Windows Additions: fixed issues with Additions on NT 4 guests
* Windows Additions: added support for 8-bit video modes
* Windows Additions: allow specifying custom resolutions for secondary screens
* Windows Additions: several fixes and improvements for DirectDraw
* Windows Additions: improved the mouse filter driver compatibility with other mouse drivers
* Linux Additions: several fixes and enhancements to Shared Folders
* Linux Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.4
* Shared folders: fixed MS Powerpoint access issues (Linux host)
* API: fixed RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE startup error on Windows hosts<
* API: fixed SMP race condition on Linux hosts
* API: fixed stability issues on Windows hosts in low memory conditions

[Zxian]

Man... it had been a while since I used this program, but boy is it ever awesome! Especially with cursor grabbing enabled, and using full screen on one of my two monitors...

This is the view that I get while using my main system on the left monitor, and VirtualBox fullscreened on the right monitor (with a clean, fresh XP install).



I can go back and forth between those two without any hassle!

[Camarade_Tux]

Zxian, I hate you !
Do you know for how long I have to scroll in order to see the other edge of your screenshot ?

[DigeratiPrime]

HOMEPAGE: http://www.virtualbox.org/
DOWNLOAD x86: http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.5.4/V...5.4_Win_x86.msi
DOWNLOAD PDF: http://www.virtualbo.../UserManual.pdf

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VirtualBox 1.5.4 (released 2007-12-29)

* USB 2.0 support
* PulseAudio backend
* GUI: fixed accelerators in German translation
* GUI: fixed registration dialog crashes
* GUI: allow to enter unicode characters to the name of the registration dialog
* GUI: pre-select attached media in the disk manager when opened from the VM settings dialog
* GUI: remember the last active VM
* GUI: don’t accept empty paths for serial/parallel ports in XML
* GUI: fixed NumLock / CapsLock synchronizazion on Windows hosts
* GUI: don’t start the kernel timer if no VM is active (Linux host)
* VMM: improved compatibility with FreeBSD guests
* VMM: properly restore CR4 after leaving VT-x mode
* VMM: patch code and disassembler updates
* VMM: with VT-x a pending interrupt could be cleared behind our back
* VMM: workaround for missed cpuid patch (some Linux guests refuse to boot on multi-core CPUs)
* VMM: fixed code for overriding CPUID values
* API: don’t crash when trying to create a VM with a duplicate name
* API: don’t crash when trying to access the settings of a VM when some other VMs are not accessible
* API: fixed several memory leaks
* ATA/IDE: fixed SuSE 9.1 CD read installer regression
* Floppy: fixed inverted write protect flag
* USB: virtualize an EHCI controller
* USB: several minor fixes
* Network: fixed MAC address check
* Network: host interface fixes for Solaris guests
* Network: guest networking stopped completely after taking a snapshot
* Network: don’t crash if a network card is enabled but not attached
* PXE: fix for PXE-EC8 error on soft reboot
* NAT: update the DNS server IP address on every DNS packet sent by the guest
* VGA: reset VRAM access handers after a fullscreen update
* VGA: don’t overwrite guest’s VRAM when displaying a blank screen
* ACPI: implemented the sleep button event
* VRDP: fixed crash when querying VRDP properties
* VRDP: netAddress fixes
* VRDP: fixed the Pause/Break keys over VRDP
* VRDP: sync NumLock / CapsLock sync over VRDP
* VRDP: workaround for scrambled icons with a guest video mode of 16bpp
* VRDP: reset modifer keys on RDP_INPUT_SYNCHRONIZE
* VRDP: reset RDP updates after resize to prevent obsolete updates
* Clipboard: Windows host/guest fixes
* Clipboard: fixed a SEGFAULT on VM exit (Linux host)
* Clipboard: fixed a buffer overflow (Linux host)
* Shared Folders: fixed memory leaks
* Linux installer: remove the old kernel module before compiling a new one
* Linux host: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.24
* Linux host: script fixes for ArchLinux
* Linux host: load correct HAL library to determine DVD/floppy (libhal.so.1 not libhal.so)
* Linux host: make sure the tun kernel module is loaded before initializing static TAP interfaces
* Windows additions: fixed hang during HGCM communication
* Windows additions: fixed delay when shutting down the guest
* Linux additions: added sendfile support to allow HTTP servers to send files on shared folders
* Linux additions: make additions work with Fedora 8 (SELinux policy added)
* Linux additions: sometimes ARGB pointers were display incorrectly
* Linux additions: several small script fixes

[ripken204]

sweet! this program is really becoming strong now