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Virtual Machines vs Parallel Installations « TechTicker — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:01:56 +0000

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By: Mike Bogle

Mike Bogle — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:42:53 +0000

Hi Narf,

Sorry to hear you’re having trouble, I’ve actually had a couple of people post comments about issues they’re having.

Along those lines, if you haven’t seen it already there’s another thread on a newer post of mine that may prove beneficial. The post itself isn’t the informative part; it’s the comments that follow.

The post is available here: “VirtualBox Runs on Hardy Heron”

Several people have posted issues they had as well as how they got around them. Just based on what you’ve described, one comment in particular from Gary on 7 May may prove useful to you.

He said:

“The VirtualBox I installed via the Add/Remove Programs list is the Open Source Edition which does not install all the parts and dependencies. I used the normal VirtualBox program

I removed it (via add/remove programs) and hten installed the sun released package which included the dependencies. I found the solution with instructions here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=770745

Hope this helps,

Cheers,

MIke

By: Narf

Narf — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:55:19 +0000

Geez… I’m really envious with all of you guys. I couldn’t even get the package to install properly in the version Hardy 8.04 of Ubuntu. I simply get a dependency error: package libqt3-mt not found. When I try to install this package it in turn tells me it requires other packages. I thought that a newer version of unbuntu would at least lessen our dependency to packages. This is even worse when my PC doesn’t have any internet connection and I usually prefer installing packages manually. ;(

I wonder if you could give me some useful threads to at least get VBox working without the dependency hitches… ;(

thanks so much if you do respond,

narf

By: Upgrading to Ubuntu Hardy Heron « Tech Ticker

Upgrading to Ubuntu Hardy Heron « Tech Ticker — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:01:56 +0000

[...] Beginning with some general information (not shown here) I was able to read through the basics of what I was getting myself into, as well as locate support resources should they become necessary. After a quick perusal of the release notes I was fairly confident nothing in the upgrade would pose an adverse impact on my existing configuration. The only potential exception seems to be VirtualBox, which has no version for Hardy Heron yet; so I’m not sure what will happen once the upgrade is complete. (More on my experiences with VirtualBox here.) [...]

By: Mike Bogle

Mike Bogle — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:23:14 +0000

I have two games from the Elderscrolls chronicles but have never really gotten into them too much after realising there was no end to the game. I spent hours the first time I played Morrowind trying to figure out what I missed so I could finish it.

Call me old school but I like to see some credits and have a sense of completion after a while

That said I might try installing it just to see if it’s even possible. So far the only games I’ve installed are from the 90s. Not sure how VirtualBox would handle more contemporary stuff.

Cheers,

Mike

By: unique_stephen

unique_stephen — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:09:28 +0000

Then you can try your hand at Morrowind – and flush about 200 hrs of your life away as you get addicted

By: linuxcrayon

linuxcrayon — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:36:07 +0000

Wow. I’m surprised you got any game to run in VB. Maybe I’ll be able to get Age of Empires working in it!

Congratulations. However, I honestly don’t think modern games (e.g., Half-Life 2, Doom 3) would work.

If you can prove me wrong, please do so!

By: Mike Bogle

Mike Bogle — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:20:21 +0000

RE: Audio – found the setting. Just open the VirtualBox settings and go to Settings –> Audio and tick “Enable Audio”. I’m not sure what the various options mean, but I chose OSS and found it worked successfully.

NB: The virtual machine can’t be running at the time, otherwise the Settings option will be greyed-out and not clickable.

By: Mike Bogle

Mike Bogle — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:05:40 +0000

Update: I managed to get Baldur’s Gate working on VirtualBox install, but so far without the sound. I haven’t pursued this much further yet, but I didn’t tweak anything on the installation so it was relatively painless there.

I also got it working on WINE, but there is more tweaking needed here. For some reason I can’t run in full-screen, otherwise it freaks out my monitor. Strangely enough it’s trying to run it on 85 MHz, where as I’ve got Ubuntu configured for 60.

I’m not sure where the 85 is coming from; I couldn’t locate anything in the Configure WINE settings.

I did see something in the forums that sounded similar but haven’t pursued the investigation yet.

In the meantime I’ve found using the Emulate a Virtual Desktop option in the Graphics tab circumvents the problem. Unfortunately the problem there is the cursor isn’t stopped at the edge of the virtual desktop, so I’m having trouble playing the game a bit.

I did have this working on full screen when I’d been using the Hardy Heron version of Ubuntu, but reverted to Gutsy to try out VirtualBox. Not sure if that influenced the problem, but it’s possible.

By: linuxcrayon

linuxcrayon — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:07:35 +0000

Baldur’s Gate runs in WINE. It did the last time I checked, anyway. BG I, Tales of the Sword Coast, Shadows of Amn, and Throne of Bhaal all ran perfectly in WINE for me. I never tried Icewind Dale or Icewind II, though.

Alternatively, there’s TransGaming’s Cedega.

Good luck!