Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 09 iul 12, 11:22:50, Arun Khan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > > > By the way, it is not necessary to copy me on responses. I read the mailing > > list and have for (argh!) two decades. > > I am guessing this is default setting in this mailing list. > > The "o

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-09 Thread Lisi
On Monday 09 July 2012 06:52:50 Arun Khan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > > By the way, it is not necessary to copy me on responses. I read the > > mailing list and have for (argh!) two decades. > I am guessing this is default setting in this mailing list. I'm afraid

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-08 Thread Arun Khan
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > By the way, it is not necessary to copy me on responses. I read the mailing > list and have for (argh!) two decades. I am guessing this is default setting in this mailing list. The "original sender" is auto filled when I click on the "Reply" li

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 02:20:21PM +, Camale?n wrote: > You can still test with a different VB version (in a different box - > whether possible- to avoid mixing up both installs) so you can discard a > bug hitting a specific version of the program. I could, but since I got kvm working and it

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-06 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:19:44 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 05:43:41PM +, Camale?n wrote: > >> Also, check if the application you're running (Premiere Elements) does >> provide an option to disable effects (e.g., video overlay, 3D >> acceleration...) or somesetting that cou

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-06 Thread Chris Davies
Carl Fink wrote: > Believe it or not that helped a lot. > I was using a command I found online somewhere: > virsh start /mnt/data/kvm-images/xp2 Ah. That tells libvirt to start a guest that has been previously configured within libvirt, and that /mnt/data/kvm-images/xp2 is the name of (not path t

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
This is becoming a monologue, but I'm hoping someone doing a search will find the info useful. On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:52:53PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:43:53PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > New information. If I start virt-manager as root I get a different error: >

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:43:53PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: New information. If I start virt-manager as root I get a different error: Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: No D-BUS daemon running Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 383, in

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:43:28PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > I tried kvm, but virt-manager reports "Unable to connect to libvirt" > > even though libvirtd is running. > > Add yourself to the libvirt group. Already in it. > > If I start kvm from the command line I get: >

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:08:07PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > Sorry. Have you installed bridge-utils? Yes.q -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 05:43:41PM +, Camale?n wrote: > Also, check if the application you're running (Premiere Elements) does > provide an option to disable effects (e.g., video overlay, 3D > acceleration...) or somesetting that could be making the guest to behave > weirdly. I should have

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:31:06PM +0530, Anand Sivaram wrote: > I once wrote an article about using KVM for kernel development. You could > see that here. > > http://saurorja.org/2011/07/04/creating-a-minimal-kernel-development-setup-using-kvmqemu/ > > I always use kvm/qemu especially with XP

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Chris Davies
Carl Fink wrote: > I tried kvm, but virt-manager reports "Unable to connect to libvirt" > even though libvirtd is running. Add yourself to the libvirt group. If you're making a connection from a local virt-manager to a remote libvirtd you need to do one of three things, as by default libvirtd al

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/07/12 01:51 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 01:32:07PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 04/07/12 10:29 PM, Carl Fink wrote ... I tried kvm, but virt-manager reports "Unable to connect to libvirt" even though libvirtd is running. ... Use virt-manager. It makes running VMs really

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 01:32:07PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 04/07/12 10:29 PM, Carl Fink wrote ... > >I tried kvm, but virt-manager reports "Unable to connect to libvirt" even > >though libvirtd is running. ... > Use virt-manager. It makes running VMs really easy. As you see, I tried that. N

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 22:29:51 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > So I have at various times installed VMWare Player, VMWare Server, and > VirtualBox. Host was Debian, guest was Windows, generally but not always > XP Pro. > > VB's Guest Additions' video driver doesn't work correctly with Adobe > Premiere El

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 04/07/12 10:29 PM, Carl Fink wrote: So I have at various times installed VMWare Player, VMWare Server, and VirtualBox. Host was Debian, guest was Windows, generally but not always XP Pro. VB's Guest Additions' video driver doesn't work correctly with Adobe Premiere Elements. I have filed a bu

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > So I have at various times installed VMWare Player, VMWare Server, and > VirtualBox. Host was Debian, guest was Windows, generally but not always XP > Pro. > > VB's Guest Additions' video driver doesn't work correctly with Adobe > Premiere Elemen

Re: Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-05 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 05 July 2012 04:29:51 Carl Fink wrote: > I tried kvm, but virt-manager reports "Unable to connect to libvirt" even > though libvirtd is running. As mentioned in /usr/share/doc/libvirt-bin/README.debian, "Access to the libvirt socket is controlled by membership in the "libvirt" group.

Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

2012-07-04 Thread Carl Fink
So I have at various times installed VMWare Player, VMWare Server, and VirtualBox. Host was Debian, guest was Windows, generally but not always XP Pro. VB's Guest Additions' video driver doesn't work correctly with Adobe Premiere Elements. I have filed a bug at Oracle's site, but no action yet aft