Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 released today

[PB]

Just found a big bug in Virtual PC 2007 today: all my virtual machines have
problems with my mouse, as though it's not calibrated properly. All I did was
start them up and look at where my mouse is compared to the selection:

[Tipperton]

Just found a big bug in Virtual PC 2007 today: all my virtual machines have problems with my mouse, as though it's not calibrated properly. All I did was start them up and look at where my mouse is compared to the selection...

Have you tried installing or updating the virtual PC extensions from the Action menu?

Must be something unique to your setup, I've also upgraded to VPC 2007, haven't updated the VPC extensions yet on any of my guest systems yet and don't have that problem with any of them.

[PB]

I do have the extensions installed, but I changed the screen resolution in each
and now the mouse works properly. Seems there's a bug somewhere when
changing the resolution. Don't know how to reproduce it, but it's there, as
evidenced by my screenshot.

[Edwin Knoppert]

I think it's because i am running it on XP Home that i can't install the extra stuff right?
When i click settings and want Shared folders i get the message that iit is only available when Virtual Machine Addons is installed.
When i click Hardware Virt. it says it's not present on this computer.

Any idea how to have me an easier way to share software for easier installations?
I tried network but i see the NW icon blink but no connection.
I shared a drive..

[PB]

> I think it's because i am running it on XP Home that i can't install the extra
> stuff right?

Well the requirements for VPC 2007 do NOT include XP Home, but the fact
that you can run it says a lot. So, it's logical to assume that the Additions
will install and run, too.

> When i click settings and want Shared folders i get the message that iit is
> only available when Virtual Machine Addons is installed

Have you tried installing them in the way I described? You said you got an
error but didn't elaborate, so I don't know what the error was or anything.

> When i click Hardware Virt. it says it's not present on this computer

I think that's a hardware requirement. It's not present on my PC either.

> Any idea how to have me an easier way to share software for easier installations?

As I said: burn the software to a CD/DVD and access that from within the
virtual environment. It's really very easy. Surely you can do that?

[Edwin Knoppert]

Will reread what you've said.
I already use my dvd writer to exchange the software.
Bit clumsy heh?

[Edwin Knoppert]

I found a slightly easier way to transfer stuff.

By making an ISO i can set VPC to capture the ISO.
You can make ISO's with several CD burners like:

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

I'am using the older version (afaik withiout .NET requirement).

http://www.cdburnerxp.se/downloads/old%20versions/

If you need to update the 'cd' contents, i make use of 2 iso files and toggle between these two.
VPC will claim the iso and thus can not be overwritten.

[PB]

> By making an ISO i can set VPC to capture the ISO

Yep, same thing as getting the data off a CD, as ISOs are just CD images.

[JCV]

I found something on the net

InnoTek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

Some of the features of VirtualBox are:

* Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.

* Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.

* Guest Additions for Windows and Linux. VirtualBox has special software that can be installed inside Windows and Linux virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window).

A number of extra features are available with the full VirtualBox release only (see the "Editions" page for details):

* Virtual USB Controllers. VirtualBox implements a virtual USB controller and allows you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without having to install device specific drivers on the host.

* Remote Desktop Protocol. Unlike any other virtualization software, VirtualBox fully supports the standard Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). A virtual machine can act as an RDP server, allowing you to "run" the virtual machine remotely on some thin client that merely displays the RDP data.

* USB over RDP. With this unique feature, a virtual machine that acts as an RDP server can still access arbitrary USB devices that are connected on the RDP client. This way, a powerful server machine can virtualize a lot of thin clients that merely need to display RDP data and have USB devices plugged in.

* Shared folders. Like many other virtualization solutions, for easy data exchange between hosts and guests, VirtualBox allows for declaring certain host directories as "shared folders", which can then be accessed from within virtual machines.

screenshot: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Screenshots
web: http://www.virtualbox.org/

[Nik]

Yeah, I can recommend VirtualBox as well, it's extremely fast.

[ts-soft]

The best for me is VMware Workstation 6 (i have the beta tested)
then VirtualBox (i use it under windows as host)
then VMware Server (i use it under linux as host)
....

[Edwin Knoppert]

I can popup the addons dialog which does ask me for install or not but nothing happens.

Therefore no shared folders.
I was also unlucky with sharing a network.

(I am to stupid for everything..)

But.. if someone could help me with the network setup?
I can't seem to write to the DVD to exchange data back

Oterwise i'm going to try that other virtual stuff.

Tips?

[Edwin Knoppert]

Aaahhh, found it..

You really should mention it's becomming a cdrom (iso) where you install from !


It seems to work!

[merihevonen]

I found something on the net

Then you found it a little too late
I suggested VirtualBox on the first page of this topic

[JCV]

I found something on the net

Then you found it a little too late
I suggested VirtualBox on the first page of this topic

I didnt notice.