I have finally made the move from XP to Ubuntu and want to use XPSP3 in VirtualBox for those "essential" apps until I can wean myself off them and/or find native apps which I'm happy with.
It's a freshly installed Ubuntu 9.04 and a freshly installed XPSP3. Most things are just fine, and impressively fast, but there are a couple of niggles.
Firstly, shared folders. I have two data partitions on the host (different drives) set up as shared folders and mapped to drive letters on the guest. All files/directories are owned by the current logged-in host user and are 755 so I should have full access. However I am unable to delete files from the guest - I get "D:\ is not accessible. The request not supported". Also if I right-click, it takes a good 10 seconds for the context menu to come up. Strangely I can create files and folders and rename them - just not delete. I can delete from the host just fine so it seems not to be permissions.
Sometimes I lose the ability to *read* files on a shared folder. I have some MPEG-TS files from a DVB-T recorder which I want to top-and-tail with VideoRedo (one of those essential apps) and everything works for a while then without warning the app can no longer seek in the current file nor open any others.
Secondly, if I try to rip a DVD using DVDDecrypter in the guest, it hangs. I haven't yet found a linux app which can rip the whole of the main title to a single VOB yet, so this is a problem.
I must stress that these are niggles, in general it works remarkably well.
Ubuntu 9.04/Vbox 2.2.2/XPSP3 - mostly fine
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quartermain
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- Joined: 6. Feb 2008, 16:55
- Primary OS: Ubuntu other
- VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
- Guest OSses: XPSP3
- Location: UK
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elsnerc
- Posts: 3
- Joined: 1. Sep 2009, 20:44
- Primary OS: Ubuntu other
- VBox Version: OSE other
- Guest OSses: XP SP3
Re: Ubuntu 9.04/Vbox 2.2.2/XPSP3 - mostly fine
I can confirm the read/delete problems on the share with 9.04/Vbox 3.0.4/XPSP3.
The read problems seem to be a timing problem. Wait some and then retry will eventually show the content of the file.
But deleting is not possible from the guest side. I am talking about objects (e.g. txt file) created by the same user in the same session.
News on what causes this behavior would be much appreciated. The files can still not be deleted after I change permissions to rw-rw-rw on the host side.
cheers and thanks!
The read problems seem to be a timing problem. Wait some and then retry will eventually show the content of the file.
But deleting is not possible from the guest side. I am talking about objects (e.g. txt file) created by the same user in the same session.
News on what causes this behavior would be much appreciated. The files can still not be deleted after I change permissions to rw-rw-rw on the host side.
cheers and thanks!