Virtualbox

masterluke · 20 Sep 2008 at 10:52

Hi,

Just a quick heads up in case anyone hasnt tried this fantastic software. I've just installed under Ubuntu and got an XP machine up and running in it.

My main motivation was getting 4OD to work - which works perfectly. I was also surprised to see that it plays all my movies very well - Including 720p MKV's!!!

This is well worth an install if you have any windows apps that you cant get running natively on Linux or WINE. With the "seamless" mode it looks just as if apps are running natively.

Luke

Garp · 20 Sep 2008 at 11:17

I've been using VirtualBox under Windows for a while now.. still find myself preferring VMWare generally, VMWare seem to handle networking better (or at least has caused me least hassles), but VirtualBox is definitely a good product. Tack in that it can be interacted with by libvirt (unlike VMWare) so it'll work nicely with Enomalism and other libvirt products and it's definitely something to keep an eye on.

JIM_BOB7813 · 20 Sep 2008 at 11:51

I've used it on windows host and it works great, love how fast it resumes a saved machine, VMware takes AGES to resume if you allocate a lot of RAM.

NicNac · 20 Sep 2008 at 14:47

Garp said:
I've been using VirtualBox under Windows for a while now.. still find myself preferring VMWare generally, VMWare seem to handle networking better (or at least has caused me least hassles), but VirtualBox is definitely a good product. Tack in that it can be interacted with by libvirt (unlike VMWare) so it'll work nicely with Enomalism and other libvirt products and it's definitely something to keep an eye on.

I got networking working pretty easily on the linux version. vmware is good also I have both installed.

masterluke · 20 Sep 2008 at 16:05

NicNac said:
I got networking working pretty easily on the linux version. vmware is good also I have both installed.

I didnt have to do anything to get networking working in XP under Ubuntu.. It just worked out of the box with XP set to use DHCP.

Im sure Vmware is a good product too, but from the reading I'd done it seemed that Virtualbox was faster and speed is the major consideration for me as I wanted it for video mainly.

NicNac · 21 Sep 2008 at 21:42

you can run it with the nat version but I wanted each of my vm's to have an ip on my network. its very easy to setup.

NoobieOCer · 23 Sep 2008 at 14:28

i have problems with it, when seamless activated and i select the windows task bar the masked part goes black, then when i select ubuntu part windows back ground appears.. =/ maybe i did something wrong?

masterluke · 23 Sep 2008 at 20:15

NoobieOCer said:
i have problems with it, when seamless activated and i select the windows task bar the masked part goes black, then when i select ubuntu part windows back ground appears.. =/ maybe i did something wrong?

Wierd.. mine doesnt do that on my Ubuntu. Using fully updated hardy with latest Virtualbox installed using the .deb package from the Virtualbox website. I'm using the restricted Nvidia driver on a geforce 5200 and advanced desktop effects disabled.

I use seamless mode and set the XP taskbar to audo-hide, all works nicely.

Sorry cant offer much in the way of help

Outcast · 23 Sep 2008 at 20:40

I'm using Suns xVM Virtualbox

works hokey

tntcoder · 23 Sep 2008 at 23:46

pink taskbars?!

Outcast · 24 Sep 2008 at 00:15

pink taskbars?

Look at the username !! (wifes computer - I have just dismantled my AmigaONE)

manic111 · 24 Sep 2008 at 00:35

How quickly would this start up Vista in a VM (while on Ubuntu)? How much of a performance hit would it take if I wanted to game on a virtual Vista? I'm considering scrapping Windows altogether and solely using my buntu install, but need my games!

Mattus · 24 Sep 2008 at 03:12

Gaming is probably out of the question. All the VMs I've used have no / very limited 3D acceleration.

VirtualBox is nice and fast... I'd use it if it allowed me to create an SMP VM with two virtual processors like VMWare does.

NoobieOCer · 24 Sep 2008 at 08:10

masterluke said:
advanced desktop effects disabled.

oo do i need to disable em?

also i wonder is 2Gb ram enough to run photoshop on windows on virtualbox, i usually make banners and sigs for fun

btw i had some trouble finding correct version of virtual box, first i used ose(not knowing there was diff version), then my friend told me to use sun version, then i go on site and find there a ose and normal one but i wasn't able to get seamless work on any of them =/ any one link me the correct file or page to download?

Outcast · 24 Sep 2008 at 10:46

Sun.. install guest additions

NoobieOCer · 24 Sep 2008 at 14:24

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

whats
The Sun public key for apt-secure can be downloaded here. You can add this key with

do i need that? or an other things but the deb?

Outcast · 24 Sep 2008 at 17:56

Mine was working ok before but I just did that anyway !!!

Code:

 wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

masterluke · 24 Sep 2008 at 18:22

This is what seamless mode looks like on mine.. (the background is the Ubuntu one not the windows one).

I downloaded this version (its compiled specially for Hardy)

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.0.2/virtualbox-2.0_2.0.2-36488_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb

Outcast · 24 Sep 2008 at 18:26

Does that version you have linked to allow drag & drop file swap between Ubuntu & Win ?
I had to set a network share up to do that although I'm pretty sure it worked on a previous snapshot... (me goes back to looky)

I near pooped meself first time running seamless.

Couldn't remember how to get out of it !!

( Right ctrl + L)

masterluke · 24 Sep 2008 at 18:42

no drag and drop.. you need to map a drive still.. there is a shared clipboard though.

Check this out.. a 720p MKV playing without any frame drop in seamless mode using the xp version of media player classic