• [VOICENWS] SW: [Arca Noae] Convenience of shutdown/poweroff in a vir

    From VOICE News Service@1:3634/1000 to All on Sunday, June 05, 2016 21:07:52

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    From: webmeisterDESPAM@DESPAMarcanoae.com

    Arca Noae has posted a new item, 'Convenience of shutdown/poweroff in a virtual machine'

    At one time, shutting down an OS/2 guest under VirtualBox meant full shutdown and virtual powerdown. With recent versions of VirtualBox (5.x), however, this has not been the case.

    We've noticed, and we've done some work to address this.

    Did you know that Arca Noae's ACPI driver runs just fine under these latest builds of VirtualBox? Using [...]

    You may view the latest post at https://www.arcanoae.com/convenience-shutdownpoweroff-virtual-machine/

    We at Arca Noae would like to thank our development partners, bww bitwise works,
    GmbH and http://Netlabs.org for their continued contribution to the OS/2 platform.
    Monetary contributions to offset their operations costs may be made either through Arca Noae at https://www.arcanoae.com or bww bitwise works, GmbH at http://www.bitwiseworks.com.

    You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted.
    Best regards,
    Arca Noae
    mailto://webmeister@arcanoae.com
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