Today I installed virtualbox again because I wanted to do some virtualizations. That should be obvious, actually. There’s no other reason to install virtualbox.
What I wanted to do was simple: set up a little Windows XP machine so I can play two simple games:
Wildlife Park 2 and Ski Racing 2005 (feat. Hermann Maier)
Both are absolutely beautiful gems that I loved when I was 12. Both are games I was absolutely shit at when I got them, and then through trial and error (and a little help from friends in understanding one of the games) I became moderately successful. By that I mean I finished all the missions in Wildlife Park (2) and unlocked all courses in Ski Racing (I never drove slalom or giant slalom though. Just super-G and downhill, because slalom has too many goals.).
So I hope I expressed my love for WLP2 and SR2005 enough. Last year in July, before I left for the GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH, I already once tried to satisfy my nostalgia for a better and more uncomplicated time in my life, by installing virtualbox. Sadly, I wasn’t successfull. The shitty piece of software tried telling me the friggin’ driver wasn’t loaded, even after restarts.
So I said “Fuck Oracle!”, removed virtualbox and its dependencies, and tried to ignore the hole in my soul.
But yesterday I visited a friend who still has his old XP desktop, and we played a bit WLP2 and I was right back in it.
So I installed virtualbox, and surely, the driver didn’t load. But this time smarty boy didn’t give up. Instead he tried to find the driver, reloaded it, and the shitty thing works perfectly.
I was ~very~ furious.
So now I have two VMs running XP Professional and Home, and none of my games work. Because probably the processor is too fast and that shits it up. At least for Ski Racer. Wildlife Park apparently doesn’t like being run in a VM because Deep Silver is fucking with me with their shitty FrontLine DRM.
I’ll feel like I have to get an old pc now.
Fuck Oracle.