Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 21:41:41 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, jahnke@sonatabio.com Subject: Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <200905212141.41344.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <1242591163.11490.17.camel@zinfandel> References: <1242591163.11490.17.camel@zinfandel>
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On Sunday 17 May 2009 04:12:43 pm Frank Jahnke wrote: > > Now we think that we solved the most > > problems and are ready for the first Call for Testing. > > Thank you for this. I have installed W2K Server on i386 7-STABLE > system without major heartache. It does not work for me when I am not > root, which causes some minor inconvenience. Otherwise all the updates > so loved by Microsoft installed fine, and the VM itself seems to > function properly. Speed seems to be much better than qemu/kqemu, but > slower than the old VMware port (though that is really a pain to use > these days since it is limited to single core CPUs only). > > Are there plans to do a port of the Guest Additions? Right now the > resolution and bit depth are limited to 800x600, 16 bits, and that > really limits its usefulness. Just a thought / side note / workaround here. You might be better off enabling remote desktop on the W2K guest and then accessing it via net/rdesktop (in ports). That lets Windows give you its own virtualized desktop while using native rendering on your host with arbitrary geometry and depth, etc. > Of course you are starting in the right place: without a stable port > the additions are not of any particular use. JN
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