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Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests

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Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests

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Post by rbanffy »

zppx wrote: post #17
kls wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There are countries where the EULA clause that restricts what you can do with the software is void.

Brazil (where I live) is one example.

Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests

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Post by milod »

Sujan wrote: post #6

Who tried it? How well did it work?

I think its important to note that this release does not work on Windows 7 x64. Link to known issues: http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=30325

Otherwise, working great so far on Windows XP for me.

Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests

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Post by aphistic »

You forgot to mention the other HUGE addition that I know I've been waiting on for years... Multiple monitor support!

I use VirtualBox as my dev environment every day and I know I'll be more productive when I can use both my monitors for development again. :)

Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests

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Post by azim »

timmorgan wrote: post #10

"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?

The balloon driver, as others have pointed out, is used in an overcommit scenario as a way for the hypervisor to reclaim memory from a guest OS. There's a balloon driver loaded in to the guest which can communicate with the hypervisor. When the hypervisor needs more physical memory, it can ask a guest's balloon driver to inflate and start allocating physical memory pages. That will cause the guest to start reclaiming unused memory using it's native techniques; a Linux guest, for example, might destroy unused file buffer caches. The balloon driver can then release all the memory it's allocated and the guest won't bother reclaiming anything until it needs it.

Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests

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Post by zppx »

rbanffy wrote: post #21
zppx wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There are countries where the EULA clause that restricts what you can do with the software is void. Brazil (where I live) is one example.

Thanks for the information, I'm Brazilian as well, I will study more about the legal situation, someone that worked in a large software industry here in Brazil (he is trustworthy), told me that it is illegal, I have to look further and not take for granted what people say to me.

Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests

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Post by petercooper »

petercooper wrote: post #27
Sujan wrote: post #6

Who tried it? How well did it work?

So far, so good, but it's still got 30 minutes to go.. http://skitch.com/petercooper/dbe31/virtualbox-os-x-2

So, it finished OK:

http://skitch.com/petercooper/dbjk1/osxundervbox

No hacks either! :-) Had some issues with a dirty disc on the way.. and it totally refused to use an ISO.

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