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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In the short run I agree with Israel. In the long run I think and hope
VirtualBox will start working well again.

Best regards
Nio

Den 2015-02-01 14:38, Israel skrev:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
> 
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> -Israel
> ToriOS Team
> 
> 
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