My download is timing out at 419 KB, anyone else having problems?
Mine is at 428 KB. :P
Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests
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#13"Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information)" Awesome. I'm definitely not a VM expert, but I think that means I can fire up my VM, and if not much is running in it, it won't consume as much memory on the host. Is that correct?
I think it means you can increase the RAM of a VM without shutting it down. With Xen, the VM needs to be rebuilt (a couple of minutes off)
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#14My download is timing out at 419 KB, anyone else having problems?
Yes, same here, at 996 KB.
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#15My download is timing out at 419 KB, anyone else having problems?
Try using wget or curl. Chrome hung for me, but wget downloaded the 70MB file in about 30 seconds.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is illegal to run OS X on a hardware not made by Apple, I guess it's fine to run it as a guest in a VM (the old Mac-on-Linux did that), although I can be wrong as well.
It is not illegal, to my knowledge no court has ruled on the matter and the only judgment (PYSTAR) that even remotely relates to OSX on no apple hardware and it had to do with copyright violations. Copyright protects distribution and public display of the media not the use of the private use of media. Companies have tried to blur this line by expanding what copyright encompass. If they want it to be illegal they need…
Okay, thanks for the clarification, I wrote my original commentary without much caution, the user just not followed the EULA, that what I wanted to say, which to my knowledge is illegal in my country.
Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests
#18Is Guest OS X, on VMs legal? I thought that was the against Apples terms of service. I never really found out what happened to the whole PsyStar thing.
You're legally only allowed to run OS X Server virtualized on Apple hardware. VMware and Parallels have both implemented checks in their products to help Apple enforce this (although I believe they're somewhat trivial to work around).
AFAICT VirtualBox does nothing to enforce it.
Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests
#19"Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information)" Awesome. I'm definitely not a VM expert, but I think that means I can fire up my VM, and if not much is running in it, it won't consume as much memory on the host. Is that correct?
I believe it's just memory overcommitment, so you can assign more memory than you actually have available on the host and it will dynamically handle it for you. Crazy stuff, though.
Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests
#20"Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information)" Awesome. I'm definitely not a VM expert, but I think that means I can fire up my VM, and if not much is running in it, it won't consume as much memory on the host. Is that correct?
I think it means you can increase the RAM of a VM without shutting it down. With Xen, the VM needs to be rebuilt (a couple of minutes off)
Memory ballooning is basically a mechanism for hypervisor to steal pages from the guest and yes, so it allows for over-commitment. Memory balloon driver is present inside the guest and hypervisor communicates how many pages it needs back to the driver. The driver allocates pages and sends it back to the hypervisor.