Anyone had any experience with VirtualBox
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Good, bad, ugly??? I've taken a job where I will be doing C++ 6.0 development and was wanting to put it on a virtual machine. Any insight, gotchas or warnings? Thanks, Mike
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Ive been using VirtualBox for a while now with Ubuntu on a WinXP host, the only problem for me is the fullscreen mode...
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Ive been using VirtualBox for a while now with Ubuntu on a WinXP host, the only problem for me is the fullscreen mode...
Amro Khasawneh wrote:
the only problem for me is the fullscreen mode...
Yeah I can't set my to full mode either...I don't see the taskbar. But that is a minor problem! Thanks, Mike
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Hey, Mike. VirtualBox is definitely a winner. No problems setting up a couple of VMs for older OSs for testing and such. Runs Linux and Windows well (I have had SUSE, Win 2000, Win XP, Win 98 and Ubuntu guests). :) Flynn
Flynn,
Flynn Arrowstarr wrote:
VirtualBox is definitely a winner. No problems setting up a couple of VMs for older OSs for testing and such. Runs Linux and Windows well (I have had SUSE, Win 2000, Win XP, Win 98 and Ubuntu guests)
Thanks, good to know. I'm running XP but an older development system on it and so far so good. Mike
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I found that Virtual Box would run Ubuntu just fine when Virtual PC was unable to render the screen correctly. So I'm pretty positive about Virtual Box.
“Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support
Just for future reference, the reason that VirtualPC doesn't like Ubuntu is because Ubuntu defaults to 24-bit color, which VirtualPC doesn't support out of performance reasons. You can get Ubuntu to work by editing a configuration file at the comand prompt. For more information, there is an article on their forum about it.
