The Virtual Machine Thread

VMWare server also allows serial ports to work with named pipes.

Will set the system up and see if it will work the way we want it.

Thanks.

Libs
 
K9JT said:
Done that as well... still pretty slow :-(

Thanks for the input though.

I'm sure there must be a way to allow the virtual machine to use your physical graphics card, just like it uses your network card. I've got it connecting to my wireless network and I can connect to the internet seamlesly. So surely it could/should access my graphics card as well.

Oh well, I guess my search continues...
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Thats just the problem, its not using your physical NIC. Your VM NIC is bridged to your physical Network via a virtual NIC and a Virtual LAN Switch. This is done by emulating a physical NIC, a (relatively) easy process when compared to emulating a hardware specific display card....

It is possible to use a desktop virtualisation package to get full multimedia; but that takes additional configuration....
 
Conradl said:
Thats just the problem, its not using your physical NIC. Your VM NIC is bridged to your physical Network via a virtual NIC and a Virtual LAN Switch. This is done by emulating a physical NIC, a (relatively) easy process when compared to emulating a hardware specific display card....

It is possible to use a desktop virtualisation package to get full multimedia; but that takes additional configuration....
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Aah, ok, I understand. But I still think it is technically possible to use the physical hardware. Hopefully, in the vast space of the web, someone out there must have tried or experimented with something along those lines.
 
The latest VirtualBox now has OpenGL 3D support, so some games have been reported working in it. It also lets you increase your adapter size up to 128MB I think. I haven't gotten it yet, and from what I understand it's still marked as experimental, but things move fast in the Vbox world.

I definitely need more RAM lol :)
 
The_Librarian said:
***virtual bump***

Trying out vmware server 2.x out now.

The UI is a bit slow as it's done in Java, but this enables you to control the VM's from another machine across the network.

Still playing around with it tho...
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I tried with server 2.0 ... eek! Couldn't get the console to even start. Does it run in its own java instance or inside a browser? Currently back to V1.
 
Asha'man X said:
The latest VirtualBox now has OpenGL 3D support, so some games have been reported working in it. It also lets you increase your adapter size up to 128MB I think. I haven't gotten it yet, and from what I understand it's still marked as experimental, but things move fast in the Vbox world.

I definitely need more RAM lol :)
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Wow, that's great news, VB here I come! :D
 
SecretCode said:
I tried with server 2.0 ... eek! Couldn't get the console to even start. Does it run in its own java instance or inside a browser? Currently back to V1.
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You'll need to have Java installed.

It is slow, but once the VM's are up and running you can enable Remote Desktop/telnet/ssh/vnc/etc to do your work.
 
Warning : do NOT enable file and folder compression on a VMWare server, especially on the datastore.

If you do, then everything will be as slow as molasses, including the virtual machines self.
 
Yeah, and always assign all the disk space when you create a new machine....
 
Busy working with VMWare server 2.0 and DAMN am I underwhelmed :( I have used VM Workstation for a number of years and it is really good. I assumed that Server 2.0 would be a scaled down version, similar to Workstation. The interface is crappy, its slow and cumbersome to use.... Disappointing....
 
Conradl said:
Busy working with VMWare server 2.0 and DAMN am I underwhelmed :( I have used VM Workstation for a number of years and it is really good. I assumed that Server 2.0 would be a scaled down version, similar to Workstation. The interface is crappy, its slow and cumbersome to use.... Disappointing....
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Because it makes use of Java.

Virtualbox, on the other hand, is a pleasure to use.
 
Weird and interesting "feature" in Oracle Virtualbox v4.1.22

Got three VM's installed (2x Smoothwalls and 1x ClearOS v6.x)

Smoothwall does not require PAE/NX, so I disabled it.
ClearOS 6.x, on the other hand, do require PAE/NX.

I can only start up either ClearOS 6.x or both Smoothwalls, but not all three. After minimizing the memory allocation for all three VM's to 512k, I played with the PAE/NX option, found that all three do start when PAE/NX is enabled on all three.

Interesting. Hope this helps some poor sod :D
 
I recently tried upgrading (on Win7 x64) from VirtualBox 4.1.20 to 4.2.4 and it failed miserably (setup just hung up), because I didn't uninstall 4.1.20 first.

Librarian, I take it you meant you minimized the memory allocation to 512MB and not 512KB ;)

One reason for not buying a "k" model Intel CPU (eg. i7 3770k) would be because you lose out the VT-d features. VirtualBox doesn't support this for the graphics card yet if I'm not mistaken?!
 
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