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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
Maybe we should ignore virtual machines in the manual.
All the virtual machine software does things slightly different,
so I think the manual should focus on real machines.  Users can look up
the documentation to their own preferred VM program.

On 02/01/2015 04:49 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am having a lot of issues with Virtual box,  in terms of getting it
> to see the network properly, for some reason it has given me a totally
> different IP address to the rest of my computer network,  I can't
> share files with host system,
>
> Phillw has advised me to use virtmanager instead as it seems
> virtualbox and oracle are not doing too well at present. So I in the
> light of this I would propose the following
>
> The manual / project should advocate, where possible the use of virt
> manager above virtual box and in fact remove the info for virtual box
> as unless I can take a screen shot and easily share this with my host
> system then I am going to struggle further to develop the manual.
>
> Doing this should be easy enough, as virt manger is installed along
> with qemu or is of last night.
>
> However this leaves the issue of how does one test, when the host OS
> is Windows or mac,  I can't help here at all.  if anyone can suggest
> something here, that would be great.  Even if it is plain text and
> include screen shots (reference this in the text file) it should be
> possible to drop in to both the online / offline manuals.
>
> I am not sure if I should wait till the beta is out so we can write /
> take screenshots based on the beta,
>
>
> Paul
>
>
>

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Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team