[Cialug] Success!

[Dave Hala]

There's one more thing.... after short period of time the mouse buttons
would stop responding.  In virtualbox settings,  system/motherboard, you
need to change the Pointing device option from "ps2 mouse to "usb tablet"
if your host uses a usb mouse.

:) Dave

On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 12:51 PM kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Glad you found the winning combination!
>
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 7:02 AM Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
> >
> > I did get Centos 7 to with function correctly with VB  as a guest Vm.
> >
> > Here's  the process:
> >
> > Install VB 6.0 on a windows 10 host.
> > Create a new VM using the osboxes Centos 7  image
> > yum install kernel-headers, kernel-develop & gcc
> > reboot
> > yum update
> > reboot
> > install VB guest editions
> > reboot
> >
> > Its looks like there are some issues with the VB guest additions with
> > Centos 7 for any version of VB < 5.1.30
> >
> > Its a little painful getting started.  You couldn't see the mouse cursor
> > with the VM using the base image. Even with the mouse captured, it
> wouldn't
> > function correctly until the guest editions were installed.  I ended up
> > having to use the keyboard to navigate.   You might have better luck
> > starting with a fresh image rather than using a pre-made image.
> >
> > Looks like I can stick with Centos for a while.  However, with Ubuntu
> there
> > was a lot less pain.  In the future I'm probably going to take a hard
> look
> > at Ubuntu LTS.  Its desktop functions, are clearly a couple of steps
> beyond
> > Centos.
> >
> > I think still that Centos is probably superior on the server side. Ubuntu
> > LTS certainly is a contender, especially if you want to have a machine
> for
> > development that use same platform that you run on. The advantage would
> be
> > that Ubuntu is less painful on the development side.
> >
> > :) Dave
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