As an aside, my uottawa account on this list became "non-member" so I've
unsubscribed and resubscribed with new email.
I'm trying to get a (legal) Windows 7 Pro 32 bit virtual machine running
under VirtualBox. It turns out as adjunct at uOttawa, I can get 1 copy
of Win7 from DreamSpark. So I've got everything set up with AVG Free,
activation etc., but get a failure to check updates ("service not
running", even though the services are running). Some postings on Net
suggest that the issue is the fake network card in VirtualBox and that
there is a way -- possibly inconvenient -- to set up a direct connection
to the real network card on the machine.
Has anyone experience (or any knowledge) of doing that? I'd like to have
an updated Windows box to be able to check software I'm associated with
e.g. R or the epub stuff I do. While I'd like to tell folk to "just
install Linux", I find it easier to get them hooked on R etc., then show
them how to run it better, i.e. under Linux.
Cheers, JN