Impression on 2.0

Post by **h1d** » 6. Sep 2008, 12:33

Congratulations on the new release.

I just got my hands on the 2.0 and used the old guest images from 1.6.4 (didn't try 1.6.6) and Ubuntu worked good so far. Even the idle CPU usage dropped from 10-12% down to 3-4%

(before using the gigabit ether virtual nic, it was 30%

) very nice.

The host networking worked ok (maybe this dropped the CPU usage?) picked a IP from a DHCP server outside the very machine and could 'ping' anywhere just as if I had such a different machine.

Also, obviously the log flooding in /Application is gone too.

I'll keep adding comments as I use it.

Post by **h1d** » 6. Sep 2008, 13:58

I just tried to use the PCnet virtual NIC (though I had to recreate the virtual machine entry or else I got some "Failed to get MAC address : VERR_CFGM_VALUE_NOT_FOUND" error) and then booted up and now it uses only 6% of CPU when idle. (Edit : This was on NAT mode, and even with gigabit NIC, with NAT mode, it was using 6% CPU, so now there's no difference between CPU usage of these 2 NIC drivers) So, great improvement here. Now onto the infamous shared folder testing...

Post by **h1d** » 6. Sep 2008, 14:34

Shared folder ceased to work at all... Anyone got a clue? No one seems to hit this problem on 2.0 either by the look of the search.

I loaded up an already installed Ubuntu back from 1.6.4. Things go good. I added a shared folder on the config interface and booted up (didn't have any before), reinstalled GA on top of 1.6.4 GA, rebooted, made sure the 'vboxadd/vboxvfs' services are running, kernel modules are loaded and the module files timestamps were the time when I installed the GA.

Like usual, I go

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sudo mount -t vboxsf Data ~/Data

and I get

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/sbin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: Protocol error

It's quite sure I have an entry of 'Data' exported as a shared folder in the GUI config.

Edit: A simple struggle got it working, but this is weird...

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sudo mount.vboxsf Data ~/Data

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Now I tried to use and unfortunately, it is still doing nuts... Simply put, I have this shared folder mounted off from OS X's native HFS+ volume. And I simply do

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svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.7-stable redmine

to pull some source code out of some place, and this simply fails in the middle and it does succeed once I do this on the native file system space inside guest. (Same command does work if I run this on host natively inside SAME folder.)

Why is vboxsf just broken

Is this just me or anyone on a OS X (maybe even on Windows with NTFS shared folder) confirm the above command failing on a HFS+ shared folder?

I'm not doing anything tricky or making heavy load on it.

Post by **TerryE** » 6. Sep 2008, 15:51

No comments other that keep up the good work.

Post by **h1d** » 6. Sep 2008, 16:40

I really hope something gets done (and for a starter, if anyone else can see this happen and prove I'm not the only weird user)..., when you share a folder via built in share function with smb, firewall WILL simply open the ports up no matter what... (Unless you deploy a 3rd party firewall app) which means, you obviously don't want to go out in the open with it... (of course without password no one may get in, but still...) I can't really make a better report since I see no errors anywhere but files just simply fail.

JoeEkaitis · Post by **JoeEkaitis** » 6. Sep 2008, 17:07

I'll happily trade the "native" interface for one with the tool tips window. It's a pain to bust out the user guide and try to find what each setting does.

c123 · Post by **c123** » 7. Sep 2008, 12:16

JoeEkaitis wrote:I'll happily trade the "native" interface for one with the tool tips window. It's a pain to bust out the user guide and try to find what each setting does.

Just upgraded from 1.6.4 to 2.0 and had exactly the same conclusion as you!

Post by **TerryE** » 7. Sep 2008, 12:41

F1 should bring up the online version. Not tooltips but ...

aquarius · Post by **aquarius** » 7. Sep 2008, 14:11

TerryE wrote:F1 should bring up the online version. Not tooltips but ...

... the userguide busts out, all over your screen, just like JoeEkaitis stated before.

Tooltips would still be nicer.

JoeEkaitis · Post by **JoeEkaitis** » 8. Sep 2008, 20:08

aquarius wrote:[ ... the userguide busts out, all over your screen, just like JoeEkaitis stated before.

Tooltips would still be nicer.

Or context-sensitive help. But, hey, can't beat the price.

Post by **h1d** » 10. Sep 2008, 02:46

Oh, don't bring up the price when asking

That's why Linux desktop doesn't improve... [It's free, so stop asking!] Yeah right... I'd rather give them 5 bucks so they would do something.

And I think Sun is paying to them on behalf of us.