World: r4wp

Was watching Arnold's riots

I've re-installed yet again and gotten it to work by selecting the 
first controller - for some reason the installation defaults to putting 
the HD on controller 1 as the second device - the CD being the first 
on the same controller

I guess the logic in grub should be able to find it even on the second 
controller, no? In any case, it works now with the first menu option

riots?

btw, confirmed that the screen resolution isn't persisted

even with a clean shutdown

Odd

More about the riots in Chit Chat

Do the virtual desktops work for switching resolution, as described 
in the Welcome?

yes

GrUB should be adble to start from anywhere as long as it's consistent. 
Dunno why it didn't here, but in general, emulators are weird

easy to switch using alt key, so no big problem - it would be nice 
if there was a 1920x1200 one though, so that going full screen would 
use all space

Sorry, have to leave again for supper

k - I'll make an image and post a link here

Great

for the screen resolutions - could 1920x1080 be added as well? - 
that's my laptop rez - the other is my external monitor. The existing 
choices seem to reflect older 4:3 displays only

Few of the drivers support widescreen resolutions, but you can try

For new features, newer versions of the drivers need to be ported 
to Syllable, but people stopped doing that years ago

On VMware, that would go through the VMware video driver, so that 
would have to be changed

I exported the VM as an OVF - it should be importable in any hypervisor 
that supports this. Is that OK for you?

I believe that VB and Microsofts's stuff should be able to load it

I don't know that format. I suppose VMware can also just load it?

sure

that's a standard for VMs - OVF and OVA

Does it retain the VMware settings? The problem with loading images 
from other emulators is that you don't get the emulation settings, 
so it can break when for example it defaults to SATA instead of ATA

I re-loaded it and it seemed fine

Let's try it. We'll see what Doc says :-)

I don't see MS supporting it on Wikipedia, but it is supposed to 
work across VMware and VirtualBox

there is this - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj158932.aspx

It's unclear how to convert OVF to QEmu. Does the OVF contain a VMware 
VMDK disk image file?

yes

and an iso along with anothe couple of files - .mf, .ovf

btw, are you interested in having 50 GB on box.net? I see they're 
asking me to invite friends to get this amount for free

An ISO and a VMDK? That sounds wrong. Is the installation CD still 
in that ISO?

If the CD was mounted as primary master, that would also explain 
why the installation partition couldn't be there

ah, you're right - forgot to unmount

That would double the size. Not good for a download :-)

no, the second time around, I put the cd on the second controller

The VMDK is good, though. Although it's a VMware format, QEmu can 
use that. That's why we always had VMware images in the past

but vmw workstation wouldn't let me put the hd as first dev on first 
controller with the cd as the second device

OVF seems to standardise all the settings that usually didn't transfer, 
so that's good

We're hosting on Amazon S3 and several other places. I appreciate 
the Box.net offer, but it would just complicate our infrastructure 
further. A lot of our time over the years has gone to managing that, 
so I am firm on simplifying things

np - wasn't trying to push it for any personal benefit - just thought 
you might be interested in any free, significantly sized offline 
storage. Most of the other free ones are only around 5 GB

although I think MS also has 25 GB or so with SkyBox

I understand, my only issue is with our management effort

can anyone see if this link to the VM works? It's hosted on SkyDrive

http://sdrv.ms/R8dxBA

It wants cookies and it says it will then use my Live ID, which I 
don't have

I'm not sure if the link allows you to download the file, or only 
to view it on SkyDrive

haven't used SkyDrive so I don't know my way around sharing stuff