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List:       opensolaris-laptop-discuss
Subject:    Re: [laptop-discuss] Minix in VirtualBox
From:       Rich Reynolds <rich () redstar-assoc ! com>
Date:       2008-10-29 15:33:22
Message-ID: 49088242.6060703 () redstar-assoc ! com
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this is not a good place for this. if you look to virtualbox.org, you 
will find a whole set of forums for discussion of guest OS's. in fact 
there is a minix3 community of users there.

good luck,

rich
kevin wrote:
> Sorry, since I'm new to this forum, I don't know where should I ask this question.
> 
> Firstly, thanks to all that help me figure out how to suspend the solaris on my \
> laptop. It's so fast to suspend it. I am wondering now, why XP suspends itself so \
> slow and write so lot of things to the disk. I saw my disk keeps on writing when \
> suspend XP and I don't know what it writes. 
> Secondly, about VirtualBox.
> I am reading the book "The Unix Programming Environment" written by Kernighan and \
> Pike 24 years ago. Most of its content are dated, but still it's a very nice \
> reading. In order to practice some examples, I decided to run a Minix 3 in \
> VirtualBox, because Minix has a more similar internal system calls like the one \
> described in the book.  
> Now my problem is: I can't even shutdown Minix. It keeps on rebooting after \
> shutdown. I don't know if it is my mistake in configuring VirtualBox or it's the \
>                 problem inside Minix and VirtualBox.
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