Raul


Weirdly enough after trying to restart the VM for the umpteenth time (tried safe & normal modes) it suddenly decided to work.

Next tasks

1) CLONE THE WORKING VM QUICK
2) Try and get a decent video driver so I can set the screen properly

Roy Lambert

>I'm nearly there with the transition to W7 64bit. Last part is installing a VM and shoving D6 in there under Vista 32 >bit. I want to use an Acronis image to recover from.
>I've installed VirtualBox but it seems impossible to access anything outside of the VM.

>Anyone any ideas?

I don't usually visit this forum so I guess I'm late to the party.
I have VB running with Delphi and have no problem seeing my other drives on the host machine.

Did you set up another Network Adapter for your Virtual Machine?
* Run VB manager and select your Virtual Box (left pane) that you want to change.
* Select Settings (Gear Icon) and in the left pane of the Settings window you will see a list of options:
     "General,System,Display,Storage,Audio,Network,Serial Ports, USB,Shared Folders".
* Select Network and you will see the Network options. On my machine I have 2 Adapters defined:
Adapter 1: NAT with Cable Connected
Adapter 2: Bridged Adapter, Name: "RealTek PCIe GBE Family Controller", Promiscuous Mode; Deny, Cable Connected

If you save that and run the VB, you should see the drives on your host machine, with different drive letters of course to make up for the drives that are local to your VM. (I label my host drives with "ComputerX1_D" or "ComputerX1_E" so I know where the drive is located.) You are able to read and write to those drives from within the VM.

I'm not sure why you're using Acronis to do backups and restores of the Virtual Machine. I use Acronis but to back up the entire hard drive.

I use VB to manage versions of the virtual machine. I will create a new Snapshot prior to making changes to the VM like installing a new Delphi version, and if I ever want to revert the virtual machine back to the prior state I simply restore the saved snapshot. This takes 5 seconds.

When I am satisfied with the state of the VM and I want to back it up, I can clone the machine (takes up much more disk space and a lot of time).  Most of the time I just use snapshots.

Hope this helps.

Barry

Barry


>I don't usually visit this forum so I guess I'm late to the party.
>I have VB running with Delphi and have no problem seeing my other drives on the host machine.

I can see the shared folder, two of the drives on the host, and nothing else on my LAN, but I've decided that I quite like it like this. I have 3 VMs set up, one base configuration with D6 & D2006 under Vista, a second cloned from that which is for working on D6 projects. Neither of those have access beyond the shared folder. There's a third which has internet access so I can try out dodgy downloads and websites but not contaminate my real machine is they do carry a nasty payload.

>I'm not sure why you're using Acronis to do backups and restores of the Virtual Machine. I use Acronis but to back up the entire hard drive.

So do I. What I needed to do here was create the VM and then get the image I'd created in Acronis from my hard drive whilst I still had Vista  installed  with D6 & D2006 all set up and configured into the VM. Acronis was bloody minded and the only way I could find to do it was create the VM, install Vista, split the VM into two partitions (C: & D copy the Acronis image onto D: and then restore from there.

>I use VB to manage versions of the virtual machine. I will create a new Snapshot prior to making changes to the VM like installing a new Delphi version, and if I ever want to revert the virtual machine back to the prior state I simply restore the saved snapshot. This takes 5 seconds.
>
>When I am satisfied with the state of the VM and I want to back it up, I can clone the machine (takes up much more disk space and a lot of time).

In my case c30Gb

Roy