USB Problems (WAS: Re: [opensuse] Vista on VirtualBox)

On Tuesday 26 August 2008 08:05:57 am Alexey Eremenko wrote:

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Kai Ponte wrote:

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On Tuesday 26 August 2008 07:53:22 am Randall R Schulz wrote:

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So it is the case that the user experience of Vista is not good without a graphics card with "advanced 3D effects?" And to date there are no virtualization systems the provide such a graphics adaptor in their virtual machine environment, right?

So is Vista practical under virtualization?

From a Microsoft staff member's own words - Vista and Windows 2003 both run fastest under XEN in SLES.

Highly unlikely. Xen cannot beat VBox.

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Go figure.

Oh, and I haven't tried much of the effects. I can't stand that kind of thing, which I why I don't run Compiz or Beryl.

I am running the VM on a dual-core 32-bit P-IV 2.0GHz system with 2G RAM, one GB assigned to the VM, along with 128MB video.

He-he. 128MB won't help you. This is a 2D card, so you can reduce it to 16MB VRAM.

Okay, will do. I plan to remove teh eye candy anyway, as I don't need it. Okay on another note - I was cutting and pasting my VMWare XP and OSX files from my home drive to a USB drive. About halfway through each file (4.3G and 5.6G respectively), I got the message, "The protocol died unexpectedly." http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/2008/20080826_died_konq.jpg I googled and can't find anything specific. What could be amiss? -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request