gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.general

VBoxManage --cpuidset command

Tao Feng — 2010-03-16T09:45:05

Hi,

I just notice that in VBoxManage 3.1.4, there are some new options. The ones about cpuid are interested to me. 
[--cpuidset <leaf> <eax> <ebx> <ecx> <edx>]
[--cpuidremove <leaf>]
[--cpuidremoveall]

I just tried something like  
VBoxManage.exe modifyvm PP2 --cpuidset 1 0x000006E8 0x00010800 0x0000C1A9 0xAFE9FBFF

But when the guest system PP2's cpuid does not change. Do you have anyidea how to use these options?

Thanks,
Ted

Re: Installing VBox OSE

Angel Tsankov — 2010-03-14T07:11:45

The host OS is Linux from Scratch.

Angel Tsankov

Installing VBox OSE

Angel Tsankov — 2010-03-13T21:25:30

Hello!

What is the recommended/normal way to install VBox OSE after building it?

Regards,
Angel Tsankov

dhcps parameters

Ashmath Khan — 2010-03-13T17:38:03

Hello,

Vbox does provide a dhcp server for host only network so that the
device can get an IP address. My question is can we configure some
other dhcps parameters like lease time etc ?

VirtualBox to KVM: looking for howto

sean darcy — 2010-03-13T16:04:17

I'm running W7 under VB on Fedora 12. I'd appreciate a link to a howto 
for converting the VB machine ( vdi) to KVM (qcow2).

sean

Re: Fail to install OS on VM

Stephen Liu — 2010-03-12T16:21:29

- snip -




OK





I think the problem is NOT there.  It always complains;
No root file system is defined
Please correct this from the partitioning menu

B.R.
Stephen L


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Re: Fail to install OS on VM

Kees Nuyt — 2010-03-11T20:07:14


My suggestion was to uncheck these.


VirtualBox cannot boot from USB.
A VirtualBox VM can boot the guest operating system from
- a virtual disk (a .vdi file on the host), 
- a CD/DVD image file (a .iso file on the host), 
- a raw partition (using a VDI with the rawdisk option, 
- or from a non-USB CD/DVD drive in the host.

A .iso or .vdi file on the host can be a file in a
filesystem on a USB drive which is mounted on the host. In
other words, that USB drive cannot attached to the guest. 
Read the manual for details.

Re: Fail to install OS on VM

Stephen Liu — 2010-03-11T02:18:08

Hi Kees,

Thanks for your advice.





Could you please explain in more detail.  Thanks

My settings on VM as follow:-

Settings -> System
Motherboard:-
Boot Order
[check] Floppy
[check] CD/DVD-ROM
[check] Hard Disk
Extended Features: [check] IO APIC

Acceleration
Hardware Virtualization: [check] Enable VT-x/AMD-V
             [check] Enable Nested Paging


USB
[check] Enable USB Controller
[check] Enable USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller


I ran Unethbootin to install the ISO image on the USB.



Could you please explain in more detail.  Tks


B.R.
Stephen L


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Re: Fail to install OS on VM

Kees Nuyt — 2010-03-10T22:25:28


Make sure you don't have USB active in your VM definition,
so VirtualBox can't grab it.

I assume the "installer" is a liveCD .iso image.
Register it  in virtual media manager and assign it to the
VM.
Then boot the VM from the image by pressing F12 in the VBox
VM boot splash and choose cdrom boot.

Re: Fail to install OS on VM

Kees Nuyt — 2010-03-10T22:20:40

[snip]


https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community

Fail to install OS on VM

Stephen Liu — 2010-03-10T03:53:25

Hi folks,

Host - Ubuntu 9.10 64bit
VirtualBox - Sun edition

I ran "Sun VirtualBox" on Gnome creating VM and installed Ubuntu 9.10 desktop on it without success.  I was held on step 4/7. 

Clicking [Forward] on step 4/7 ;
No root file system is defined
Please correct this from the partitioning menu
[OK]

The installer is on USB drive which can boot PC

Please help.  TIA

B.R.
Stephen L


P.S.:  Where is the URL of the new mailing list?  TIA


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Re: What is Oracle Going to Do?

James Mansion — 2010-03-09T23:16:00

Shame, well, I was trying to make a point that GPL code is not immortal 
in some way.
Let's try to be adult, huh?

I like vbox and use it as a preferred solution.  If it dies, its no big 
deal though, there
are alternatives that aren't expensive.  Who's  fretting?

Re: What is Oracle Going to Do?

Eric S. Johansson — 2010-03-09T22:58:29


oh, a small asteroid or two (a.k.a. flaming rocks from the sky) will be 
sufficient to distract us from the Oracle-VirtualBox show.  no need to kill us 
off.

 >splat<

Re: What is Oracle Going to Do?

Fernando Cassia — 2010-03-09T22:26:17

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:14 PM, James Mansion
<james-NjTro2ha9lsOpT7lO2NMWkHK5LHFu9C3< at >public.gmane.org> wrote:

I think that if a huge comet strikes the Earth, we will ALL DIE.

;-)
FC

Re: What is Oracle Going to Do?

James Mansion — 2010-03-09T22:14:30

Since the FSF are not copyright holders, I don't think they'd have any 
grounds for doing so.

I suspect that if Oracle don't sponsor major engineering in vbox, 
though, it will
die GPL or not, because its tricky stuff and Linux users have kvm- and 
xen-based
solutions, so you'd need devs that Really Care about Windows, Solaris 
and FreeBSD.

Having access to the source is somethimes no more than an invitation to 
waste a
huge amount of time. :-(

1024x600 NetBook-Linux Mint 8 Host, Win XP Guest?

Jesse Palser — 2010-03-08T23:50:13

1024x600 NetBook-Linux Mint 8 Host, Win XP Guest?

HI,

I may be trying to push what is technically possible but thought I would 
try it.

I installed Linux Mint 8 32bit onto my new NetBook
with dual core 1.6GHz ATOM CPU, 1GB RAM, and 1024x600 screen resolution.

Then I installed current VirtualBox and installed Windows XP Pro 32bit SP3
into a newly created virtual machine.

Then I installed current VirtualBox Guest Additions into XP guest 
virtual machine.

All went perfectly with no problems to report.

My only problem is that the XP guest virtual machine
in windowed mode will only display 8bit color?
Tried to go into Display Properties and change to higher bit depth but 
did not work.
Going full screen allows me to use 32bit color depth, but can't seem to 
do that in windowed mode.
NOTE: I allocated 384MB RAM and 64MB video memory to the XP guest 
virtual machine

Any ideas? Thanks!


Jesse

Re: 1024x600 NetBook-Linux Mint 8 Host, Win XP Guest?

Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac — 2010-03-09T12:35:27

Hi Jesse,

Despite the fact that exist an Atom dual core (the Atom 330), the more 
common Atom used in netbooks is the N270, which is a single core cpu, 
but has HyperThreading. So the system see 2 virtual cpus. Not sure if 
this is your case, but if your proc is the n270, you have a single core 
cpu, not and dual.

I have the same problem that you.  But i updated my vbox version (to the 
lastest, 3.1.4),  and after that it runned just fine. I used a smaller 
amout of vram also (32mb).

sorry for my poor english.

Jesse Palser wrote:

Re: virtual-box - memory ballooning + open source and puel versions

Vladimir Konrad — 2010-03-09T08:53:32

Hello Frank,


Thank you!

Vladimir

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Re: 3D games on Win 98 guest?

Alexey Eremenko — 2010-03-09T06:32:42

VirtualBox Win98 guests have no Guest Additions. 3D support requires
Guest Additions to be developed.

3D games on Win 98 guest?

2010-03-09T06:10:32

Is tehre any chance (beside software rendering mode) to get 3D Games to 
run in VBox using a Win 98 guest?
afaik there is no 3D-Compatible VBox Win 98 Graphics Driver, is it?!

Re: Closing this mailing-list

upscope — 2010-03-08T23:11:27

Thanks for your help!