Virtualbox on tinycore issues

[jur]

I loaded virtualbox-ose and -additions, and installed win XP as a virtual machine. Works, but I can't get internet access or any network connection happening. I have already gone into the devices-network menu and tried various settings with no success. I have also installed additions on the XP virtual machine.

Any help?

PS Is it necessary to load the -additions in tcl?

[Arslan S.]

never load additions on a host system it is only for guests

tested internet connection with tiny core in tiny core it is fine here

[jur]

What are the setting you used on the network adapter device?

[vinnie]

my friend had a similar problem, he says has set the intel ethernet card settings in vbox and install driver but i dont know in specific

tinycore in tinycore work well also for me

[Arslan S.]

default settings, didn't change anything

[vinnie]

my friend have a windows personalized with nlite, probably have been removed ethernet driver

[jur]

OK I got it going. Posting from win XP running inside tcl!

I got it going by win XP's hardware manager, uninstalling the ethernet adapter and scanning for new h/w. It promptly found the vbox network card and installed it, asking for a driver file which I didn't have. No problem, switch to tcl, download it, put on shared drive and presto! network adapter installed.

Could not connect to inet initially, so I switched back to default network device setting in vbox (NAT), and after that I was on.

[jur]

Here's the kicker: booting into tcl and then into win XP on vbox, is actually faster than booting directly into winxp!

[vinnie]

Ahah, great!

[gutmensch]

*I like button*

[Lee]

Hmmm... I think I'll finally retire my old XP box.  Maybe the wife's O.X.B., too.

[hiro]

Here's the kicker: booting into tcl and then into win XP on vbox, is actually faster than booting directly into winxp!

This is not so by design, I'm sure

[jur]

Here's the kicker: booting into tcl and then into win XP on vbox, is actually faster than booting directly into winxp!

Now that would attract attention at scale9x!

[maro]

Here's the kicker: booting into tcl and then into win XP on vbox, is actually faster than booting directly into winxp!

Sounds to me like the difference between an "old" XP system (booted natively) that was installed a while ago and had lots of opportunities to "go slow" (as they all do over some time with software and driver installations etc.) vs. a "new" XP system freshly installed in a VM.

[jur]

Admittedly I have not performed rigorous testing. But what I can say with certainty, is the vbox boots win xp a LOT faster than directly. That's on my eee pc.