On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:17:27 -0600, Chris Cox
Hmmm... why not use a desktop or window capture tool? I use the *recordMyDesktop programs... seem to work fine. Just an option. Of course, I'm using Linux as my host... but the Windows fanboys seem to say that their desktop capture tools are "superior" (?)... you'd think that might work for you as well even if you have a Windows host OS.
I use *recordMyDesktop to record at 1920x1200 all of the time... and it captures at a high enough rate.
Yeah, I have used both xvidcap and recordmydesktop before. There were some other things I didn't like about VirtualBox, like the PUEL if I wanted to connect USB devices. I was running the PUEL version of VirtualBox anyhow - "free for personal use as in beer but not open source" and I didn't see the point in not upgrading the VMware license.
With regards to VirtualBox... you never know. Oracle does indeed seem to be a "killer" of FOSS (which isn't really possible with the GPL btw). So the FOSS version of VBox is always an option... even if Oracle gets ugly (uglier). If on the cheap, I'd try FOSS VBox Windows guests with a Linux based window capture tool. See if that works ok for you (of course, you've already bought VMware... so maybe that comment is for somebody else).
Well, there's also the OpenOffice.org -> LibreOffice "transition" and the NetBeans dropping of Ruby support. The big issue I had with VirtualBox was needing to do OVF conversions so VMware Player could play the machines. Most of my users don't want to mess with either VMware Workstation or VirtualBox - they want to just play appliances. I was making OVFs in SUSE Studio but that was adding friction and slowing the users down. So I've gone back to making VMDK / VMX appliances, and those play out of the box in VMware Player. I am slowly limiting the amount of non-free licensed software I buy. I'm basically down to VMware Workstation and the ActiveState Perl Development Studio. I'm still running Windows Vista and Office 2007 (in a virtual machine!) and don't plan to update either. -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdős -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org