On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 6:17 AM, fcassia <[email protected]> wrote: > GREAT news... I've been using Windows 7 (public beta) **, in the > 64-bit version under VirtualBox 2.1.0 > > Even the VirtualBox guest additions work OK, provided you right click > on the 64-bit installer, and select "Compatibility Troubleshooter". > > An ugly dialog comes up, sort of a "black box magician" showing a > progress bar for what looks like hours to me, until finally "guives > up" (gee, why don' t I trust MSFT' s Artificial intelligence? :-P) and > says "what seems to be the problem?" or words to that effect. Then > select "it worked fine on previous versions". It will ask on which OS > it worked fine, select VISTA from the drop-down. > > DONE... the app is launched in Vista compatibility mode. You can then > install the VBox guest additions and those work fine! > > Well done Sun! > Nice to hear that !
> About Windows 7: THE UGLY: > > -As fat and as slow as Vista. > FC > PS: I suspect MSFT will fiddle with it, in the spirit of "it ain't > ready until Lotus won't run" or here "it ain't ready until it runs > like molasses or crashes under VirtualBox". ;-) (let's hope not) > By the time when it is released computers will be powerful enough to run it. > ** direct download URLS from Microsoft.com here: > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/324/1050324/windows-7-beta-direct-download-links-from-volesoft -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
