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Re: VirtualBox--I wish....

From	Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: VirtualBox--I wish....
Date	2013-11-25 16:06 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<mk5cma-dfp.ln1@news.chingola.ch> (permalink)
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Wes Groleau wrote:

> On 11-24-2013, 13:38, Wes Groleau wrote:
>> I wish I could persuade VirtualBox to stop telling me every ten seconds
>> that I have turned on this setting or that.
>> I wish I could persuade VirtualBox to stop telling me every ten seconds
>> that the bit depth on the monitor is zero.
>
> Click on either message and it expands for more info--including a "don't 
> tell me again" checkbox.  Which I was sure I had already checked, but ...

Sorry, I could have told you that if I'd got to your post sooner.

I've used VirtualBox a lot, although mainly on Windows then Linux hosts,
and clicking on "Don't tell me again" becomes second nature with
practice.

The VirtualBox management GUI isn't as good on OS X as on Linux or
Windows, but it is far far better than when they first made the OS X
version available; I was seriously considering learning how to do it
all from the command line in earlier versions.

>> I wish I could persuade VirtualBox to stop reversing my window size
>> changes every thirty seconds.  At least if it would leave the window
>> frame where I put it, those idiotic useless warnings wouldn't be
>> covering up the actual VM screen.
>
> It sets Window size to the VM screen size.  And it defaults the VM 
> screen to 600x800.  On top of that, it tries to scale those pixels
> to be much smaller than the Mac's actual resolution.

FWIW I've had similar problems with VMware Fusion.

Have you installed the Guest Additions on the client?  This is the first
job you need to do after an installation as it gives you networking,
copy and paste between client and host (for some strange reason copy and
paste are disabled by default in the settings for the OS X version), and
screen resizing.

> But it's finally running.  No network connection yet, but whatever.

I initially found that Networking -> Bridged Adaptor was the way to go
for my needs, but Mavericks broke that.  I have been using NAT without
problems since that upgrade.

-- 
Paul Sture

Thread

VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-24 13:38 -0500
  Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-11-24 15:41 -0500
    Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-24 17:40 -0500
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2013-11-25 04:46 -0800
  Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2013-11-24 23:20 +0100
    Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-24 17:38 -0500
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2013-11-25 00:59 +0100
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-11-25 16:59 +0100
        Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-25 20:18 -0500
  Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-24 17:35 -0500
    Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-11-25 16:06 +0100
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-11-25 19:04 +0100
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2013-11-26 07:09 +1100
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-25 20:10 -0500
        Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-11-26 08:09 +0000
          Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-12-10 01:01 -0500
      Re: VirtualBox--I wish.... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-12-10 00:55 -0500

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