Mario Lobo wrote:
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:10:23 -0800
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fbsd8 <fb...@a1poweruser.com>
wrote:
I do not run x11 or any desktop on my 9.0 host.
This would be your problem.
How so? Surely virtualbox _should_ be able to hand off a VT to the
XP guest, for it to use as a keyboard, mouse, and display. (This
supposes that the FreeBSD box in question _has_ a keyboard, mouse,
and display, and thus has a VT that it can hand off.)
Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:
I have 9.0 installed on my 200gb hard drive, it's configured to use
the first 100gb leaving the second 100gb free. I was going to
install XP in the second half and have a duel boot config. Then I
find out XP has to be install first on the HD ...
The easiest solution might be to dd the first 100gb (containing
the FreeBSD installation) to the second 100gb, mark the first 100gb
as unused, and install XP there if it needs to be in the lowest-
addressed part of the disk. Back up the FreeBSD installation first!
Mario Lobo <l...@bsd.com.br> wrote:
To access the XP graphics interface, you NEED a graphics
environment!
XP itself, when running directly on the hardware, provides its own
graphics environment.
It also does that when running on a VM but it does not provide a
graphics environment for the host.
It should be able to do the same running on
a VM with a virtualized keyboard, mouse, and display.
To show a window you need a display that can show it, be it head or
headless. To diaplay a head, be it local or remote, the display must be
able to handle graphics to properly show the VM screen (head), and like
I said, I have no idea on how to do that on a text console screen.
So I was barking up the wrong tree. By design virtualbox requires a
desktop on the host to use the virtualbox built in config screens and
the only way to access a configured and installed guest VM is from a
remote PC with a desktop. So the bottom line is virtualbox=desktop.
Not the outcome I was desiring. Duel boot config is the solution for me.
Thanks to all that contributed to this thread.
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