Connys Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 I tried to install Vectorworks 2008 on a Windows XP sp2 virtual machine in Virtualbox 1.6.2 on a Ubuntu 8.04 host.The installation worked fine, but when I try to start VW the whole virtual machine crasches. The virtual XP workes fine with other programs. Has anyone else here tried this? I would like to be able to run VW while I'm logged in to Ubuntu. Quote Link to comment
Guest jkelly Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Did it dump core? What kind of messages are you seeing in dmesg and the syslog? Have you notified the virtualbox people? It sounds like this is at least in part a bug on their end. Quote Link to comment
Connys Posted July 15, 2008 Author Share Posted July 15, 2008 It dumps everything, the whole machine stops running immediately after the first VW 2008 welcome screen shows up. I still haven't notified the virtualbox people. I thought it would be good to check here first if someone has got VW running with XP in a virtualbox machine. I can try to get the dmesg if you tell me how to do. Do I use dmesg as a command in a terminal window or is there a file somewhere? And where do I find the syslog? Quote Link to comment
Guest jkelly Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 you run dmesg in a terminal. Take a look at the output immediately after virtualbox crashes, the stuff towards the end will be the most relevant. Also, look at /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog, these will be the most relevant files most likely. Take a look in /var/log as well, I don't know if virtualbox keeps its own logs, it is possible it does. You are just looking for relevant entries which will tell you why it crashed. Quote Link to comment
Connys Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 I have now tried 3-4 times and everytime I try to start the VW in the virtual XP machine it crashes. There is no new lines in the /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog files. However the VBox.log file ends like this: 00:01:05.416 /TM/GC/1nsSteps 34 times 00:01:05.416 /TM/R3/1nsSteps 326 times 00:01:05.417 /TM/VirtualSync/CurrentOffset 3270000 ns 00:01:05.417 ********************* End of statistics ********************** 00:01:05.442 Changing the VM state from 'DESTROYING' to 'TERMINATED'. I get the same results when trying to run VW on a Windows 2000 machine. Quote Link to comment
Guest jkelly Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Huh. Odd. Any word from the VirtualBox people? Quote Link to comment
Connys Posted July 21, 2008 Author Share Posted July 21, 2008 No, I haven't contacted them yet. I will probably do so, but it would be good to know if someone here has got VW to work in a Virtualbox virtual machine or only me doing something wrong... Quote Link to comment
Guest jkelly Posted July 22, 2008 Share Posted July 22, 2008 Either way I'm sure they'll be interested to hear about something that crashes the whole virtual machine. Quote Link to comment
Connys Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 I have now posted this topic on the Virtualbox forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=30800#30800. Letś hope they can give a hint of what's going on. Quote Link to comment
Connys Posted August 3, 2008 Author Share Posted August 3, 2008 I have got this answer from TerryE at the Virtualbox forum: "A quick look at Vectorworks states that it is "2D/3D AEC CAD software for Windows and Macintosh." Sorry but 3D software just doesn't work well under VB and isn't supported. There are lots of discussion on the forum as to why." So I guess I will have to try VMware or some other VM program to make this work... Quote Link to comment
Miguel Barrera Posted August 4, 2008 Share Posted August 4, 2008 This may be a problem with the host linux OS. I have windows vista running a vb windows 2000 virtual machine and have vectorworks 11 and microstation v8, which are both 2D/3D apps, installed in it. Both seem to be running ok. Quote Link to comment
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