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Oracle Releases Major Version 6.0 of VirtualBox With Many New Features
What's new with Oracle's free and open-source hosted hypervisor? Long-time Slashdot reader Freshly Exhumed writes: Oracle has released major version 6.0 of VirtualBox with a variety of new features, including support for exporting a virtual machine to the Oracle Cloud; improved HiDPI and scaling (with better detection and per-machine configuration); a UI rework with simpler application and virtual machine set-up; a new file manager that allows control of the guest file system; a 3D graphics support update for Windows guests; VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation on Linux and Solaris guests; surround speaker setups used by Windows 10 Build 1809; a new 'vboximg-mount' utility on Apple hosts to access the content of guest disks on the host; Hyper-V as the fallback execution core on Windows hosts to avoid inability to run VMs at reduced performance; and support for Linux Kernel 4.20 .
"- OS/2 Guest Additions: initial shared folder support "
ChangeLog: https://www.virtualbox.org/wik...
I think you meant to write, many new areas of vulnerability.
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vagrant seems to still work with it, so dont care about the "new" features.
Tried it last night. Mouse goes away once its captured.
I hope I'm wrong but larger software companies have a track record of addressing everything that doesn't matter while ignoring the basics.
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avoid inability to run VMs at reduced performance
That's good because it's inability to run stuff at reduced performance is something I've been looking to avoid.
Not gonna upgrade my VMs until v6.1 has been several months out. And not without extensive testing.
I had to buy vmware fusion because while Virtualbox could run windows, even the UI interfaces of office applications were really bogging down. So.. if that slow video issue is fixed I would be interested in going back.
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Is there any reason to run Virtualbox over KVM if you're using Linux as the host? I really like having the core included with the base kernel, so I never have to worry when upgrading kernels. My only other recent experience is with VMPlayer, and I migrated mainly because I wanted to run VMs at startup without launching a GUI, which isn't really supported with VMPlayer. I'm really happy with the switch. The setup GUI for KVM is just a touch less intuitive, but otherwise it feels much more natural and integrated with the system.
Since it seems many are sharing stories of VirtualBox issues, I thought I'd throw my own in - I was using VirtualBox for a while, until suddenly it just refused to recognize a container I'd set up for the storage... I was only running it for one or two Windows applications, but it put enough doubt in my mind I stopped using it.
It's nice if you have just one row two Windows applications you really want to try using... I may give it another shot.
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How to Install Android in VirtualBox
May be useful if you want to test Android Apps.
What'd they all break this time?
I have a few VMs I spin up now and then. About half the time that plain doesn't work because vbox got upgraded and it broke the config, or the kmods, or whatever this time. These guys know nothing about code stability. Just like they know diddly squat about designing command line interfaces, for that matter. Man, that shit is a mess.
Windows 10 forced updates motivated me to move my main dev box back to Linux 18 months ago. My Windows machines became vm's under VirtualBox. I have no complaints about it. The Windows VMs are quick, and shared folders, networking and shared clipboard all work great. I can resize a Windows vm as I wish. The only limitation (wish list really) is with 2 virtual displays: with a Windows guest, you can't control which display an app launches in, making the 2nd virtual display pretty much useless. Even though VirtualBox comes from Oracle, it is a nice thing for the World to have. And to me, open source even from Oracle, beats closed source from someone else.
I've reverted to 5.2.22 because the new version is slow to start (a 1.5-2 seconds delay), slow to launch VMs (by a ~1 second), slow to shutdown VMs (again an extra second) and looks very childish.
vmware player, which is still lowercase-free (despite frequent reports to the contrary.)
Not for use in a business or nonprofit organization, according to the answer to the question "Can I still use VMware Workstation Player for free?" on VMware Workstation Player's landing page. The price for one commercial seat (as might be used by a self-employed person) is $150, which is greater than zero but less than the $5000 price of the minimum 100 seats of VirtualBox.
Think of it as a box. But a box that is virtual. For example, there is the real world and there are virtual worlds. This box is sort of like that. It's not a real box, but it is a virtual box.
https://download.virtualbox.or...
No more support for 32-bit host os.
And this fact is not mentioned anywhere. Stupid.
I thought this might be useful but although you can mount it, The file system isn't recognised, you need to install a fuse driver that recognises ext4
If you need access to a virtual machines drives then if openssh server is installed on the guest Filezilla on port 22 using your vm user works well. Even handles using the PEM cert from aws.
much easier than vboximg-mount
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If you do really care about graphics, you may want to try qemu/KVM+VGA passthrough route. Just make sure your peripherals (CPU, motherboard) support hardware-assisted virtualization and I/O MMU virtualization (in Intel jargon, they are VT-x and VT-d respectively).