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Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8

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On 09/11/15 22:01, Alan Chandler wrote:
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> Up until last April, I ran Windows 7 under virtual Box on my Debian 
> machine for my daily work almost every day for about 2 years.  I
> have cut down now to one day a week, and generally do that on a
> Macbook Air, also running Virtual Box.  It worked perfectly.
> 
> I updated to Windows 10, through the upgrade program, and that was a 
> little dodgy until I updated Virtual Box to version 5 and removed 3d 
> Video acceleration.
> 
> The only issue to be careful of, is that the drivers get properly 
> rebuilt when the linux kernel changes.

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I would be very interested as to how you got past the "The Virtual Box
Graphics Adapter is not compatible with Windows 10" blockage I've
experienced. Following your comments above I removed 3D AND 2D
acceleration in my Windows settings to no avail. I'm guessing that the
128 MB maximum video memory might be related?

Peter HB

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Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 D&P Dimov <lddimov@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-09 20:10 +0100
  Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 Mike McGinn <mikemcginn@mcginnweb.net> - 2015-11-09 20:20 +0100
  Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 GC <gc@maillr.com> - 2015-11-09 20:30 +0100
  Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 Florian Pelgrim <florian.pelgrim@craneworks.de> - 2015-11-09 21:00 +0100
  Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> - 2015-11-09 23:10 +0100
    Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 02:50 +0100
      Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> - 2015-11-10 08:20 +0100
        Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2015-11-10 09:10 +0100
          Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 basti <black.fledermaus@arcor.de> - 2015-11-10 09:40 +0100
            Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-11-10 10:30 +0100
        Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 18:20 +0100
    Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2015-12-12 19:30 +0100
  Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 03:00 +0100
    Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-11-10 04:50 +0100
  Re: Install MSWindz 7 as Virtual Machine on Debian 8 Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.id.au> - 2015-11-11 08:20 +0100

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