Telkomisaloser
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The Virtual Machine Thread
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Velenoso
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Utilise the virtual machine to gain internet access in Ubuntu via my mobile phone. I can not find software (drivers) to access it directly through Ubuntu. Capisce?
Sounds quite complex...
No one used Xen server? Much better than VMWare. 
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saffakanera
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i got server 2008 and 4 vista's running on virtual pc, no problems here
Asha'man X
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Wow this thread has grown quite a bit. This should make for some very interesting continued reading.
@ Velenoso
I don't think what you want to do is easily possible, at least not any way I can figure out. Your XP machine would be able to do the HSDPA dial up, but the internet access would be more or less limited to the virtual machine only. Your host machine cannot access the virtual machine, unless you enable the "Host" network type in Vbox, and then try routing Ubuntu through the XP VM. Lol, it can get quite complicated, and will give you headaches.
@ The_Librarian
Sorry I didn't include instructions on accessing the Guest Additions ISO. But glad you got it working, and I hope you have fun playing around with it. Didn't know you were running it on a Linux host though. Seting up shared folders is easy once you get the hang of it. I haven't tried the USB yet so cannot comment on that.
@ TIAL
Congrats on getting your internet working. Let me know please if torrents and mail and stuff like that work. Would be most interesting to know.
And to everyone out there, a Blessed and safe Easter.
@ Velenoso
I don't think what you want to do is easily possible, at least not any way I can figure out. Your XP machine would be able to do the HSDPA dial up, but the internet access would be more or less limited to the virtual machine only. Your host machine cannot access the virtual machine, unless you enable the "Host" network type in Vbox, and then try routing Ubuntu through the XP VM. Lol, it can get quite complicated, and will give you headaches.
@ The_Librarian
Sorry I didn't include instructions on accessing the Guest Additions ISO. But glad you got it working, and I hope you have fun playing around with it. Didn't know you were running it on a Linux host though. Seting up shared folders is easy once you get the hang of it. I haven't tried the USB yet so cannot comment on that.
@ TIAL
Congrats on getting your internet working. Let me know please if torrents and mail and stuff like that work. Would be most interesting to know.
And to everyone out there, a Blessed and safe Easter.
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Wiped my XP partition, bunged SuSE 10.3 on it.
Busy installing XP Pro atm.
Nice - now I can run my XP on different Linux distros when needed
Busy installing XP Pro atm.
Nice - now I can run my XP on different Linux distros when needed
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Telkomisaloser
Ninja
BLah now my mission is to get above the default 16 bit colour 
Telkomisaloser
Ninja
Testing posting from my VM ~ Telkomisaloser
Telkomisaloser
Ninja
chiskop
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Telkomisaloser
Ninja
Highflyer_GP
Honorary Master
That's not 16-bit colour, that's 16 colours!
Telkomisaloser
Ninja
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
bah
/me lappy's dvdrom is starting to go
managed to get ubuntu installed instead of suse...
ah well...
*trundles off to activate dual-head mode*
@TIAL - it's called dithering, that's why it looks so fugly...
/me lappy's dvdrom is starting to go
managed to get ubuntu installed instead of suse...
ah well...
*trundles off to activate dual-head mode*
@TIAL - it's called dithering, that's why it looks so fugly...
Telkomisaloser
Ninja
bah
/me lappy's dvdrom is starting to go
managed to get ubuntu installed instead of suse...
ah well...
*trundles off to activate dual-head mode*
@TIAL - it's called dithering, that's why it looks so fugly...
@ TL did you manage to fix yours? If so then how did you do it?
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
@ TIAL - Try installing a generic VGA/SVGA driver and see if that works. WindowsNT worked out of the box, as well as XP although you have to run the guest iso to get the networking to work.
Velenoso
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The_Unbeliever
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Posting from WinXP VM...
does not feel any speed difference...
gonna install some games and see what happens
does not feel any speed difference...
gonna install some games and see what happens
Asha'man X
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Firstly, I say that this thread should be made sticky. It's useful
@ TIAL
Install the Guest Additions ISO and you may find that the 16 colours situation improves. The ISO has a VGA driver built in that seriously smooths the performance out under XP. I think it also works with Windows 98. Seriously, back then you never even got 16bit colour without the drivers, unlike XP where you almost always get a 16 bit default with the built in drivers. XP spoiled us lol.
@ The_Librarian
Virtual machines will rock for older DOS based games, or games that don't chew up heavy resources. But for anything new, be prepared for the slideshow of your life, if it will even run.
But good luck and let us know how it performed.
@ TIAL
Install the Guest Additions ISO and you may find that the 16 colours situation improves. The ISO has a VGA driver built in that seriously smooths the performance out under XP. I think it also works with Windows 98. Seriously, back then you never even got 16bit colour without the drivers, unlike XP where you almost always get a 16 bit default with the built in drivers. XP spoiled us lol.
@ The_Librarian
Virtual machines will rock for older DOS based games, or games that don't chew up heavy resources. But for anything new, be prepared for the slideshow of your life, if it will even run.
But good luck and let us know how it performed.The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
@ Asha'man - I tried the guest additions for winders 98, and it didn't work. Maybe TIAL can try an older version of the guest additions - here - the exe will extract the drivers into C:\Program Files\Virtualbox OSE Guest Additions
I have tried it with WinNT - the drivers get loaded, but you get the display properties page very time upon reboot. Win2000 works, but you have to install the sound card driver manually.
WinXP works beautifully.
Once the display driver is loaded, you can resize the window dynamically (when running it windowed on the host OS), and when you switch to fullscreen, it automatically resizes the window to fullscreen.
As for WinME - I don't want to go there...
I have tried it with WinNT - the drivers get loaded, but you get the display properties page very time upon reboot. Win2000 works, but you have to install the sound card driver manually.
WinXP works beautifully.
Once the display driver is loaded, you can resize the window dynamically (when running it windowed on the host OS), and when you switch to fullscreen, it automatically resizes the window to fullscreen.
As for WinME - I don't want to go there...