Oracle Releases Major Version 6.0 of VirtualBox With Many New Features 77
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 .
TAKE THAT WORLD !!! (Score:4, Interesting)
ChangeLog: https://www.virtualbox.org/wik... [virtualbox.org]
Re:TAKE THAT WORLD !!! (Score:4, Interesting)
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OS/2? What is that some kind of a joke? Mac has gotten so high they've started naming it using letters. Windows is up to 10. Even Linux is at version 4.
Sounds like the developers of OS/2 need a bit of a kick.
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OS/2 was IBM's official successor to PC-DOS and originally completed against Windows 3.1, 95 until it was fully supplanted by Windows NT (Linux distributions also). "OS/2" was the name, the last version produced by IBM was 4.52 in 2001, however, in 2017 they licensed eComStation to create an updated version.
https://www.ecomstation.com
https://www.theregister.co.uk/... [theregister.co.uk]
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How did you take my post seriously...
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I agree, OS/2 was way more elegant, but Microsoft got exclusive bundling deals with vendors and forced all competition out and thus OS/2, DR-DOS, GEM, etc all shriveled up and died.
They were the Comcast of the 1980s/1990s - Comcast is doing the exact same things Microsoft was doing then - in my state and many others they pushed (and won) a law against community fiber. In my city they have exclusive rights to fiber and high speed data (and give the city the kickback of free internet for police and go
Many new features? (Score:2)
I think you meant to write, many new areas of vulnerability.
Re: Many new features? (Score:4, Interesting)
What virtual machine would you recommend instead of VirtualBox? Like MySQL, VirtualBox has a GPL version with reduced functionality. One practical complaint I have is that commercial use licenses for the full version (Extension Pack) are sold only in 100-packs. Is it intended that someone who needs one license buy 100 licenses and resell the other 99?
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commercial use licenses for the full version (Extension Pack) are sold only in 100-packs. Is it intended that someone who needs one license buy 100 licenses and resell the other 99?
If you're too small to sell to, then you're too small to sue.
Note: IANAL. And this is ORACLE we're talking about.
You: I want to buy a single licence.
Oracle: No. Come back when you're larger.
You: But I can't get larger with your current sales policy.
Oracle: Sucks to be you.
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Create your VMs with the FOSS VirtualBox with no propiertary stuff, export them as OVF (not OVA, you want access to the manifest), then use any free (beer/speech) software to play them and access the missing functionality.
If you need to tweak the machine a little, the manifest is relatively easy to understand edit, or you can get a FOSS player that can edit the machine a little.
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If you're too small to sell to, then you're too small to sue.
The major record labels disagree. Sony v. Tenenbaum; Capitol v. Thomas.
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I thought you couldn't create VMs with Player, only run them?
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I thought you couldn't create VMs with Player, only run them?
You can create VMs. You can't snapshot them, that takes Workstation. AFAICT there are no other limitations of consequence... looks like they also disable cloning, remote connections, and maybe take some settings out of the GUI. I'm fairly sure that you can still make the same sorts of changes manually, in the vm config file. They even let you boot partitions. I run Win7 and Linux, and I can boot each from the other. Everything pops up and works for the most part, except I haven't got it to where I can have
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Well I launch my vms with qemu from the command line. qemu is included by default in my distro. /bin/su qemu -c "qemu-system-x86_64 -m 3072 \ /var/run/qemu/win2012.pid -enable-kvm \
Example for a win2012 server:
-M q35 \
-usb -usbdevice host:050d:2103 -usbdevice host:2001:3101 \
-smp 2 -net nic,model=e1000,macaddr=$MAC_WIN2012 \
-drive file=win2012.0.0.raw,index=0,media=disk,cache=none \
-net tap,ifname=${TAP_WIN2012},script=no,downscript=no \
-display vnc=127.0.0.1:${VNC_WIN2012} -daemonize \
-pidfile
-boot menu=o
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What virtual machine would you recommend instead of VirtualBox? Like MySQL, VirtualBox has a GPL version with reduced functionality.
You can use qemu/kvm if you don't care much about graphics but do care about license. If you don't care about license but do care about graphics, you should use vmware player, which is still lowercase-free (despite frequent reports to the contrary.) IME it's still the best in terms of compatibility.
I've found qemu to be a PITA because none of the GUI options are great. The last time I was using it I settled on using libvirt via some web tool... webvirtmgr or something like that. But I just use vmware. Works
VMware free only for personal, non-commercial use (Score:2)
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 [vmware.com]. 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.
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Because most people judge their software by functionality and benefits rather than their religion.
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No, just stupid errors.
https://imgur.com/RfsNJHV [imgur.com]
In other news, networking still a shitshow (Score:2)
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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I couldn't get shared folders working either, but I'm running a pretty old version. Since the host machine runs an smb server that was an OK workaround.
On the other other hand, I couldn't get VMWare to work at all.
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https://askubuntu.com/question... [askubuntu.com]
Re: In other news, networking still a shitshow (Score:2)
It's pretty trivial to set that up. Perhaps you should try a reasonably recent version, such as 5.x.
Re: In other news, networking still a shitshow (Score:5, Informative)
Useful feature (Score:2, Funny)
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.
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X.0.1 would be something like "removed Infinite Agony glitch."
VMWare (Score:3)
KVM (Score:3)
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.
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None I can think of it. The big advantage of Virtualbox over KVM is if you want to run a guest on multiple OS hosts. VMPlayer offers that too but at the cost of relying upon some closed source project that may drop support eventually. As much as I don't trust Oracle nor think Oracle's agenda is heavily behind supporting Virtualbox long term, they aren't really stepping away from working on it. So, that's the main reason I s
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I only recently started playing with virtualisation in Linux (still heavy user of Virtualbox in Windows though I intend to play with Hyper-V at some point). One thing that struck me was how naturally intuitive the switch from Virtualbox to KVM with virt-manager was. I remember starting virt-manager for the first time and thinking it's almost like they copied the UI from Virtualbox.
My VirtualBox failure (Score:2)
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.
Android under Windows, OS X, Linux, or Solaris (Score:5, Interesting)
May be useful if you want to test Android Apps.
VirtualBox 5 is a gem (Score:3, Interesting)
My experience (Score:3)
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64 bit only. (Score:3)
https://download.virtualbox.or... [virtualbox.org]
No more support for 32-bit host os.
And this fact is not mentioned anywhere. Stupid.
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32 Bit *guests* still work.
32 Bit *hosts* do not work.
I know a lot of uses cases for 32bit guests.
I don't know of a single modern (in last 7 years) use case for a 32 bit host for a VM except for at-home/amateur work, and plenty of free tools for that.
vboximg-mount is kinda poor (Score:2)
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