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From: Stephen on 20 May 2010 08:16 On 20 May, 09:52, thewildro...(a)me.com (Andy Hewitt) wrote: > T i m <n...(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 May 2010 09:03:25 +0100, thewildro...(a)me.com (Andy Hewitt) > > wrote: > > > >Likewise with my XP install, very snappy now, and much faster than my > > >dedicated PC box is. > > > >Seamless mode still needs a little polishing, but it does at least now > > >work in both XP and Ubuntu. > > > What about USB device support. I have it in the 9.10 / older Sun VB > > but it wasn't in the Oracle beta I tried? Well it was there but it > > didn't work. > > Not sure yet, haven't tried it. It's not something that's a life changer > for me, I only use VMs for accessing weird files I get sent, and playing > around a bit :-) > > USB may be next on the list. > > > >Multiple screens also seems to work OK too, > > >although I haven't tested it in Ubuntu yet. > > > Not used that but good to know. > > > The main thing I couldn't get to work on XPVM (and I think it's > > because the Ubuntu host couldn't see it) is our fairly new Fuji Z35 > > camera. Googling about it looks like it's (now) supported but getting > > that support looked like more lines in Terminal than I could be > > bothered to enter. I'll wait for it to come out as part of the std > > updates. ;-) > > > Don't know the answer to your question btw but would be interested to > > find out. > > Yeah, I could just start again with a fresh install, but I have been > having bother activating my copy of MS Office now that the three > activations have been used up. The real PC we have is now a little > redundant, so I thought I'd clear that down and transfer Vista over to > my VM as an upgrade. > > It's not important right now, but it'd be handy to do sometime (it's > mainly because I get asked questions on how to do something, and most of > those people are now using Vista). > > I wonder if it may be easiest to create a second vdi, and simply do a > clone over to that? > > -- > Andy Hewitt > <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/> I did it once for a Windows XP VM running on Virtual Box, but it was some time ago, so can't remember the exact details. I believe it went something like this: (1) Shutdown WXP VM. (2) Edit settings for VM and increase size of virtual HD. (3) Boot VM from and ISO image of GPARTED. (4) Grow the WXP partition to occupy the additional space. There is another way that might work. (1) Create new virtual HD of the size required. (2) Attach new drive to WXP VM as additional drive. (3) Boot VM from ISO of UBCD for DOS. (4) Clone old drive to new drive. That might be all there is too it, but it might be necessary to use GPARTED again, depending on how the cloning software works. The latter method if it works would have the benefit of leaving the original virtual drive untouched, so should the new drive not work properly, then fall back is easy.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 20 May 2010 08:38 On Thu, 20 May 2010 05:16:59 -0700 (PDT), Stephen <srmoll(a)gmail.com> wrote: >The latter method if it works would have the benefit of leaving the >original virtual drive untouched, so should the new drive not work >properly, then fall back is easy. Of course with virtual drives you can just copy'em off anyway, in the host computer. It's not so worrying as messing with the one physical disk with your data on. Cheers - Jaimie -- "The answer to the second question," said Merry, "is that we could get off in an hour. I have prepared practically everything. There are six ponies in the stable across the fields." -- J R R Tolkien
From: Andy Hewitt on 20 May 2010 08:47 Stephen <srmoll(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 May, 09:52, thewildro...(a)me.com (Andy Hewitt) wrote: > > T i m <n...(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: [..] > I did it once for a Windows XP VM running on Virtual Box, but it was > some time ago, so can't remember the exact details. > > I believe it went something like this: > > (1) Shutdown WXP VM. > (2) Edit settings for VM and increase size of virtual HD. > (3) Boot VM from and ISO image of GPARTED. > (4) Grow the WXP partition to occupy the additional space. There doesn't appear to be anyway to increase the size of the HD now, it's greyed out (hence the reason for asking) > There is another way that might work. > > (1) Create new virtual HD of the size required. > (2) Attach new drive to WXP VM as additional drive. > (3) Boot VM from ISO of UBCD for DOS. > (4) Clone old drive to new drive. > > That might be all there is too it, but it might be necessary to use > GPARTED again, depending on how the cloning software works. Righto, I thought that might be the best solution. > The latter method if it works would have the benefit of leaving the > original virtual drive untouched, so should the new drive not work > properly, then fall back is easy. In any case, that's a *very* good point. Cheers. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Jon on 20 May 2010 09:36 On 20/05/2010 9:03am, Andy Hewitt wrote: > I was taken by surprise with VirtualBox changing names recently, or at > least the addition of 'Oracle' anyway. > > I've just been playing with the release of v3.2.0, and have also just > upgraded my Ubuntu VM to 10.04. Another surprise there too, speed, wow! > they seem to be getting something right there, I just opened OpenOffice > as a test, and it pinged up far quicker than it does native in OSX. > > Likewise with my XP install, very snappy now, and much faster than my > dedicated PC box is. > > Seamless mode still needs a little polishing, but it does at least now > work in both XP and Ubuntu. Multiple screens also seems to work OK too, > although I haven't tested it in Ubuntu yet. > > Quick question, I was thinking about upgrading my XP VM to Vista, but > the virtual drive isn't big enough, says it needs a minimum of 15GB, and > only has 12GB free. Anyone know if it's possible to increase the size of > a virtual disk? I've scoured the manual, but can't see anything. The > nearest I can find is that I may have to export and reimport to a new > vdi. > Well Oracle bought Sun about six months ago, to be honest I didn't think they would keep going with VirtualBox, as free software doesn't exactly fit in with their business model. I agree about the speed bump, which compares well with my 1GB RAM 2007 MacBook with XPSP3 in bootcamp It's a great piece of software and fingers crossed, Oracle will keep developing it well into the future.
From: chris on 20 May 2010 09:55
On 20/05/10 14:36, Jon wrote: > On 20/05/2010 9:03am, Andy Hewitt wrote: >> I was taken by surprise with VirtualBox changing names recently, or at >> least the addition of 'Oracle' anyway. >> >> I've just been playing with the release of v3.2.0, and have also just >> upgraded my Ubuntu VM to 10.04. Another surprise there too, speed, wow! >> they seem to be getting something right there, I just opened OpenOffice >> as a test, and it pinged up far quicker than it does native in OSX. >> >> Likewise with my XP install, very snappy now, and much faster than my >> dedicated PC box is. >> >> Seamless mode still needs a little polishing, but it does at least now >> work in both XP and Ubuntu. Multiple screens also seems to work OK too, >> although I haven't tested it in Ubuntu yet. >> >> Quick question, I was thinking about upgrading my XP VM to Vista, but >> the virtual drive isn't big enough, says it needs a minimum of 15GB, and >> only has 12GB free. Anyone know if it's possible to increase the size of >> a virtual disk? I've scoured the manual, but can't see anything. The >> nearest I can find is that I may have to export and reimport to a new >> vdi. >> > Well Oracle bought Sun about six months ago, to be honest I didn't think > they would keep going with VirtualBox, as free software doesn't exactly > fit in with their business model. They'd be daft to junk it as VMs are/will be huge in the enterprise market. Don't forget that Vbox is not fully open source and it is only free (small 'f') for 'personal or evaluation' purposes. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions > I agree about the speed bump, which compares well with my 1GB RAM 2007 > MacBook with XPSP3 in bootcamp > > It's a great piece of software and fingers crossed, Oracle will keep > developing it well into the future. Oh, they will. The free version may become increasingly limited, however. :( |