[DISCUSSION] VirtualBox - Update, SLP & SLIC

Discussion in 'Virtualization' started by cigolo_, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. sebus

    sebus MDL Guru

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    OK, that does the XP Mode string, but surely nothing to do with booting FreeDOS?

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  2. FreeStyler

    FreeStyler MDL Guru

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    #282 FreeStyler, Dec 4, 2011
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    No, but it confirms the 'old' string we used to replace turned DOS bootable disc's unbootable, i have found an alternative patch string as well, eg

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    Code:
    01 89 46 16 8B 46 16 88 E0 30 E4 50 B8 74 00 50 B8 40 00 50 E8 AA 74 83 C4 06 8B 46 1C 0C 01 89 46 1C 89 EC 5D C3 8A 46 16 0C 00 30 E4 89 46 16 31 C0 50
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    Code:
    01 89 46 16 8B 46 16 88 E0 30 E4 50 B8 74 00 50 B8 40 00 50 E8 A8 74 83 C4 06 8B 46 1C 0C 01 89 46 1C 89 EC 5D C3 8A 46 16 0C 00 30 E4 89 46 16 31 C0 50
    Confirmed to be working on: 4.1.6, 4.1.8, 4.1.10, 4.1.12, 4.1.14, 4.1.16, 4.1.18, 4.1.20
     
  3. sebus

    sebus MDL Guru

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    @FreeStyler
    So your patch above "does" XP Mode, as well as bringing the boot-ability back for FreeDOS, right?

    sebus
     
  4. amiga

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    Yes Freedos booting ok tested with oembios test iso

    also tested win98se dos boot iso, win95b dos boot iso and even msdos 6.22 boot iso
     
  5. user_hidden

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    very nice find Freestyler.

    :)
     
  6. CocoNuts

    CocoNuts MDL Novice

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    A new version from VirtualBox is out "VirtualBox-4.1.8-75467"

    Download h**t://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.1.8/VirtualBox-4.1.8-75467-Win.exe (remplace h**p => http)
     
  7. ycb7

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    VBoxDD.dll is nowhere to be found
     
  8. FreeStyler

    FreeStyler MDL Guru

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    ??? Platform, OS ?
     
  9. landmark

    landmark MDL Novice

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    I'd greatly appreciate a patch for the Mac OS X build. Thanks for considering!
     
  10. ycb7

    ycb7 MDL Novice

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    Win XP Pro V 2002 SP3. on top of Oracle VM
     
  11. Paiva

    Paiva MDL Developer

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    VirtualBox 4.0.16 (released 2012-01-11)

    This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

     
  12. user_hidden

    user_hidden MDL Expert

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    kind of weird that a new version would be 4.0.16 considering they have been on the 4.1 version for a while !
     
  13. Paiva

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    Oracle yesterday released VirtualBox 4.0.16, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.0 which improves stability and fixes regressions.

    But will continue to release version 4.1.x ;
     
  14. nexus76

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    vbslic, debian squeeze & virtualbox 4.1.8

    Hi atreyu,
    does your tool actually work with debian squeeze & virtualbox 4.1.8?
    I had no success with vbslic. it's aborting with a message showing files missing.
    The windows toolkit works with v4.1.8 VBoxDD.dll but windows 7 is very unstable.
    Without PAE / NX no way to install.

    thanks & regards
     
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  15. sebus

    sebus MDL Guru

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    Strange statement? Might not be MS fan, but Win7 is definitely the best OS they managed to come up with

    In fact I remember it hanging ONCE ever since I started using it (a couple of years ago)

    As to the tool not working... check that you have the file where expected...

    sebus
     
  16. nexus76

    nexus76 MDL Addicted

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    not a strange statement: the modified VBoxDD.dll causes the instability, switching back to the original file it's stable again, but no slic mod ; ) vbslic is not working good with 4.1.8,
    the tool doesn't seem to fit with the latest virtualbox release ...
    If I use the default settings from virtualbox for windows 7 - without PAE/NX set - it's impossible to install, windows shows 'changed hardware' while booting from iso.
     
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  17. FreeStyler

    FreeStyler MDL Guru

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    No instability issues here as well, must be caused by something else
     
  18. atreyu

    atreyu MDL Junior Member

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    Hi Folks

    First of all, landmark, sorry for my late answer, but I was talking about ubuntu builds; atm I don't have a Mac to build and test VBox.

    Second, the excel patcher will not work with next vbox version; there are some changes in DevACPI that invalidate the known pattern

    Third, afaics, some of the changes are to implement a "custom ACPI table" named "SLICTable"... so the patch will be history :)
     
  19. user_hidden

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    version 4.1.10-r76795 released today