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VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 04.06.2008, 01:34

> Well, I tried VirtualBox 1.6.0 but it seems to me little bit crappy. It
> sometimes crashes.

And BOCHS and QEMU don't? (They do fairly often for me, but that may be Vista incompatibility.)

> Some
> basic things like keyboard emulation don't work well - e.g. in DN/NDN I
> cannot walk directories with arrow keys because it types numbers instead
> cursor moves.

Turn numlock off?

> Other demos hanged... Doom plays only sfx, no midi/adlib and
> hanged after few second of play.

Ick. I bet if you reported that, they'd try fixing it. (Doom is very popular.) Maybe a different Doom engine would be more stable? (Doom Legacy? Boom?)

Complete thread:

• VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - rr, 22.05.2008, 18:08 (Announce)
  • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - Japheth, 23.05.2008, 09:03
    • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - RayeR, 24.05.2008, 13:50
      • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - RayeR, 24.05.2008, 17:29
        • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - Japheth, 24.05.2008, 18:54
        • ViralBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - DOS386, 31.05.2008, 03:46
          • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - rr, 31.05.2008, 12:36
        • VirtualBox 1.6.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available - Rugxulo, 04.06.2008, 01:34
          • available for DOS ? - DOS386, 04.06.2008, 02:54
            • available for DOS ? - rr, 04.06.2008, 09:34
              • available for DOS ? - Japheth, 04.06.2008, 09:43
                • available for DOS ? - rr, 04.06.2008, 09:59
                  • available for DOS ? - Japheth, 04.06.2008, 10:08
                    • available for DOS ? - rr, 04.06.2008, 10:31
                      • available for DOS ? - Japheth, 04.06.2008, 10:52
                      • nonsence & snap - DOS386, 06.06.2008, 00:53
                        • nonsence & snap - Steve, 06.06.2008, 01:13
              • available for DOS ? - Rugxulo, 04.06.2008, 16:20