Portable VirtualBox [VB launcher utility]

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castman · #91 Post by **castman** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:07 pm

m^(2)!!

I want to set up a FTP connection between Windows XP guest and host but when I do add the Network Card it says the Networking driver is not installed.

I am using the version 1.7 of yours launcher w/ version 1.6.0

m^(2) · #92 Post by **m^(2)** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:30 am

Why won't you update?
I never tested it with 1.6.0 as there was no need for it.
Try 2.0 launcher with 1.6.4.
If it doesn't work, tell me what OS do you use.

castman · #93 Post by **castman** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:14 am

I use the same operational system I specified you.
In spite of my will to do it, I still need to wait a more free time to test it.

This is my higher priority test. I will do it soon.

m^(2) · #94 Post by **m^(2)** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:40 am

Don't waste you time on testing with 1.7.
Do you want me to make a fork from 1.7 to fix it? I will start with 2.0 anyway and therefore information supplied by 2.0 is more relevant. And IIRC 2.0 gives more of it.

castman · #95 Post by **castman** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:09 pm

Sorry for my lack of information.
I was talking about your suggestion, nothing else.

I will test it later 'cause I still need to download VBox 1.6.2/1.6.4
I am not an English Native anyway.

About Slower (Edit): I tested it inside my Windows XP Virtual Machine to make slowdown my MS-DOS Cobol compiler, and it really works.

I slowed the ntvdm.exe process to 999 ms suspend interval and 1 ms resume interval. The result was that it made VirtualBox take only 3% of CPU usage!!

The program seems to be portable and tiny!

I think is a must have for the database.

castman · #96 Post by **castman** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:38 am

I started yesterday the version 2.0 of yours launcher w/ VirtualBox 1.6.4.
I realized you did a great work, 'cause it starts very fast.

However, it still says the following when I try to add a Network Card: Could not find Network Driver, Please reinstall

Edit: I think I understood why you are taking time to answer my request. It's because it's a .inf file.

Browsing through the internet, I learned that is possible to create a uninstall function from inside the .inf file.

I am going to do it later, due to me being a kinda busy now.

m^(2) · #97 Post by **m^(2)** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:12 am

No, it's not about the .inf file, don't bother with it now. I didn't reply before because I wasn't here. (In case that you wonder why did forum show me as active - I use autorefresh)
What OS do you use?
And which version of VirtualBox Portable - 32 / 64 / 32+64 bit?
Do you have / did you have VirtualBox installed locally at this computer?

castman · #98 Post by **castman** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:56 am

Thanks for the attention

I use Windows XP SP3 w/ VirtualBox 1.6.4 x86. I didn't have VirtualBox installed yet in my computer 'cause before, I was only using the Shared Folder feature.

Now I want to have FTPserv to work with built-in guest OS's FTP client, so I can have shared folders and USB support w/ any OS.

I am a Brazilian, then VirtualBox auto-adjusts its language for me. My %ProgramFiles% is "Arquivos de Programas".

I use a Intel Dual Core w/ a network card that requires manufacter driver installation. Off course, the driver is already installed.

m^(2) · #99 Post by **m^(2)** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:37 pm

Ok, several other questions.
-Does michaelm_007's version work for you?
-try to run the folowing in the command line:

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sc query PortableVBoxDRV>c:\sc.txt

and paste c:\sc.txt here.
Then start portable VBox and do this again.
Also, when VBox is running, check if there's VBoxSVC.exe in the task manager.

castman · #100 Post by **castman** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:46 pm

Sorry For My Late Response but I was really busy this time. I did these tests and the results were:

Not Running Before and After

[SC] EnumQueryServicesStatus:OpenService FAILED 1060:

O serviço especificado não existe como serviço instalado.

Running

SERVICE_NAME: portablevboxdrv
TYPE : 1 KERNEL_DRIVER
STATE : 4 RUNNING
(STOPPABLE,NOT_PAUSABLE,IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0

I forgot to say that I use a limited account to have best security and I am the administrator from My Computer.
I use secondary logon. Before I said it was not working, I had tested w/ the admin account.
VBoxSVC really stays in the Task Manager while PortableVBox is running.

Edit: Sorry to say, I never tested networking w/ michaelm's launcher, Unfortunatly.

m^(2) · #101 Post by **m^(2)** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:21 am

I have one idea, but sorry, I don't know when I'll find some time to implement it. Probably in a few days.

castman · #102 Post by **castman** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 5:35 am

Thanks for the attention. I'm really happy you took some time to answer my posts.

However, I am not going to need it for soon. I still need to do a few work for university.

I wait hopefully when you'll be avaiable or ready to implement your idea.

I just need a Linux OS that supports Shared Folders, yet I am going to see it in VBox Guest OS's list.

Edit1: Well, it's so easy...Mandriva supports!!

Edit2: I've discovered what was the awful bugs that I described one time, it's due to a bug that VirtualBox Has That causes Right Ctrl to be registered as in hold in Memory.

joby_toss · #103 Post by **joby_toss** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:51 am

VirtualBox 1.6.6 (released 2008-08-26)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* VMM: ﬁxed excessive logging (bug #1901)
* VMM: AMD-V stability ﬁxes (bug #1685)
* GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891)
* SATA: ﬁxed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (bug #1941)
* SATA: ﬁxed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (bug #1789)
* VBoxHeadless: don’t start the clipboard service (bug #1743)
* VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (bug #1960)
* VBoxManage: ﬁxes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK ﬁles, now accepts removable media on Windows (bug #1869)
* VRDP: ﬁxed communication with MS Remote Resktop Connection on MacOS X (bug #1337)
* VRDP: clipboard ﬁxes (bug #1410)
* VRDP: ﬁxed crash during PAM authentication (bug #1953)
* Shared Folders: ﬁxed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed (Windows guests only, bug #1915)
* Shared Folders: don’t deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (bug #822)
* BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (bug #1957)
* OSE archive: added missing Makeﬁles (bug #1912)
* Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11)
* Linux hosts: one more ﬁx for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (bug #1962)
* MacOS X hosts: shared folders unicode ﬁx
* Solaris hosts: ﬁxed link issue (bug #1840)
* Windows additions: allow to downgrade the package
* Windows additions: ﬁxed corrupted installer icon on Windows 2000 (bug #1486)
* Windows additions: ﬁxed bug when creating intermediate directories (bug #1870)
* Windows additions: implemented /xres=, /yres= and /depth= switches for the installer (bug #1990)
* Linux additions: properly unregister the misc device when unloading the kernel module
* Linux additions: ﬁxed startup order for recent Linux distributions again (e.g. openSUSE 11)
* Linux additions: attempt to ﬁx the autostart issue of !VBoxClient with Mandriva guests (bug #1699)
* Linux additions: ﬁxed detection of patched Linux 2.6.18 kernels of RHEL5 / FC6 / CentOS 5.2 (bugs #1899, #1973)
* Linux additions: added new mount ﬂags dmode, fmode, umask, dmask and fmask allowing to override the ﬁle mode (bug #1776)
* Documentation: added a note that jumbo frames don’t work (bug #1877)
* Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (bug #1892)

joby_toss · #104 Post by **joby_toss** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:10 am

VirtualBox 2.0.0 (released 2008-09-04)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

* 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)
* New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts
* The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements
* New-version notifier
* Guest property information interface
* Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts
* New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts
* Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)
* Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)
* Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)
* Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests
* Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts
* Support for VHD disk images

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

* VMM: VT-x fixes
* AHCI/SATA: improved performance
* GUI: keyboard fixes
* Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if unregistering the DKMS module fails
* Linux additions: the guest screen resolution is properly restored
* Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)
* Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11
* Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn’t simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)

cocotteman · #105 Post by **cocotteman** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:40 am

Hi,

I've installed your version of Portable VirtualBox. But, when I want to create a new virtual box and to resize the image from 2GB to 3GB, I always obtain the same message : "the memory could not be read"...

Could anyone help me ?

Thanks a lot.

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