New GPL virtualization software: Virtualbox

[maniacmusician]

You've also got to log out and back in. Or just Ctrl + Backspace to restart all of X and give your system a nice flush.

[gapplewagen]

I like this software way better than vmware. and its open source!

I just wish there was a way to use existing .vmx machines! I have a bunch of them that I use regularly and I can't just reinstall all of them and lose the data...

I agree... it is so much easier and streamlined than vmware.

[maniacmusician]

It has a better full screen function. VMWare fullscreen would f*ck my resolution up something bad, and I'd have to restart X. with this, I can have it fullscreening on one side of the cube.

gapplewagen, have you installed the "Guest Additions"? They include mouse integration, and higher resolutions. kickass. Fullscreen is a blast now.

I have to recreate all my VMs though! [cries]

[gapplewagen]

It has a better full screen function. VMWare fullscreen would f*ck my resolution up something bad, and I'd have to restart X. with this, I can have it fullscreening on one side of the cube.

gapplewagen, have you installed the "Guest Additions"? They include mouse integration, and higher resolutions. kickass. Fullscreen is a blast now.

I have to recreate all my VMs though! [cries]

I haven't messed with full screen just yet. I only got as far as installing XP and checking to make sure networking works fine via wifi on the laptop. Everything runs great so far. I'm going to play with it more tomorrow.

[musther]

I've tried that too, I'm user 'musther' so I issued (as root)

usermod -G vboxusers -a musther

Didn't change anything.

[maniacmusician]

hello good sir, are you running 6.06? I've been having a discussion with someone in #vbox@freenode and he's having the same problem. I think he fixed it with

chmod 666 /dev/vboxdrv

apparently dapper presents some very weird permissions issues.

[gapplewagen]

gapplewagen, have you installed the "Guest Additions"? They include mouse integration, and higher resolutions. kickass. Fullscreen is a blast now.

Ok so I couldn't wait until tomorrow and gave it a shot tonight. This is great. The mouse integration is 200% better than having to hit the right control key every time I want my mouse back. I'm very impressed so far.

[maniacmusician]

hehe It's owning VMWare.

Can't wait to get my Core 2 Duo + Feisty Fawn = true hardware virtualization!

wait, Feisty is using the new kernel with the virtualization features right?

[musther]

Ah ha, that worked, but I'm running 6.10, a clean install, not an upgrade. Hmm.

[maniacmusician]

well thats weird. OF course that would work because that allows pretty much everyone to use that driver I think. But you being a user of vboxusers shouldve been enough. A bug I suppose.