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Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by teekert »

dtech wrote: post #51
teekert wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uhm, this scares me a bit, how do you of you have the Extensions or not? Would be nice if the Windows Subsystem for Linux started officially supporting graphical apps or a full VM.

You explicitly need to install them and accept the license

Hmm, there used to be an "ose" edition which lacked some usb patch through stuff I believe, it's not related to that? Haven't seen that in a while but it used to be 2 separate downloads...

So it's not any of that stuff you can select on the "Custom Setup" screen then...

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by jf- »

zapzupnz wrote: post #42

Holy cow, what an ugly user interface. I mean, it wasn't exactly a Matisse before, but it's just hideous now on macOS. Who thought "easy to use" rhymed with "make the icons look like nearly identical and somewhat indistinguishable blue squares"? Who decided that an already rather unprofessional drawing of Tux needed to be transformed into Baby's First Vector Drawing™? And why, when previous versions already did a sem…

Exactly the kind of nitpicking negativity I expected to see when I opened the thread. It’s an app for running VMs, not a piece of consumer software, it’s not being marketed based on how it looks. Say what you will about oracle’s business practises, but it’s a crying shame that this is the top comment.

Edit: was top comment. Crying shame averted.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by rashomon »

zapzupnz wrote: post #42

Holy cow, what an ugly user interface. I mean, it wasn't exactly a Matisse before, but it's just hideous now on macOS. Who thought "easy to use" rhymed with "make the icons look like nearly identical and somewhat indistinguishable blue squares"? Who decided that an already rather unprofessional drawing of Tux needed to be transformed into Baby's First Vector Drawing™? And why, when previous versions already did a sem…

> Call me a snob, but it reeks of sloppiness.

Snob.

The utility of the application far outweighs the aesthetics.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by znpy »

bayindirh wrote: post #30
robert_foss wrote: post #10

Avoid VirtualBox and becoming trapped in the non-free & personal use only extension by using one of the very decent open source alternatives Boxes[1] or virt-manager[2] [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Boxes [2] https://virt-manager.org/

We use virt-manager to virtualize servers on servers with joy, however I use VBox to virtualize Windows hosts with hardware acceleration if possible. How is the state of KVM's support about 3D acceleration, sound, drag'n drop and like?

If you have on the host system a graphics card that you can fully dedicate to the guest system, you can then do pci-passthrough and let the guest system have nearly-full access to that graphic card with nearly full performances.

Also, kvm has some nice features that AFAIK virtual box does not have. For example you can have gnu/linux and windows guests use the balloon memory driver, that basically allocates and deallocates memory from the host system. Imagine having a guest vm where you can say "this vm should have 2GB ram, but it might burst up to 24GB if needed, and then go back to 2GB when the need is satisfied". Can't do that with VBox (AFAIK - and it works on windows too!)

Regarding sound, if you are virtualizing windows, imho you're better off connecting via rdp (avoid remmina, use rdesktop) and using local speakers as audio output.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by teekert »

robin_reala wrote: post #31
robert_foss wrote: post #10

Avoid VirtualBox and becoming trapped in the non-free & personal use only extension by using one of the very decent open source alternatives Boxes[1] or virt-manager[2] [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Boxes [2] https://virt-manager.org/

Linux only by the looks of things though.

Exactly, I'm upvoting this to prevent poor souls stuck on Windows from looking for these nice solutions...

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by Quekid5 »

watersb wrote: post #59
ianai wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You make a good point, but not a good recommendation. This is a Mac OS virtualization app, and your options are Linux only. Its an oversight, at best. I get that Apples messed up their evosystem, but that’s not this conversation.

VirtualBox is a cross-platform app. The user interface looks like Java to me.

The UI is Qt-based, I believe.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by moondowner »

watersb wrote: post #59
ianai wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You make a good point, but not a good recommendation. This is a Mac OS virtualization app, and your options are Linux only. Its an oversight, at best. I get that Apples messed up their evosystem, but that’s not this conversation.

VirtualBox is a cross-platform app. The user interface looks like Java to me.

The UI is written in Qt. E.g. for older VirtualBox versions, the virtualbox-qt package was required to be installed in order to have the GUI.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by sys_64738 »

orf wrote: post #44
bakery2k wrote: post #43

Is anyone using VirtualBox on the desktop? Specifically, to run Linux/macOS/Windows guests on a macOS host? Would you recommend it? Or is the best option VMware Fusion, Parallels, or something else?

I've used Parallels before and found it amazing - fast, simple and easy. It's not worth the cost unless you use it very frequently though.

Parallel Desktop Lite is free for all guests except Windows.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by ldehaan »

zapzupnz wrote: post #42

Holy cow, what an ugly user interface. I mean, it wasn't exactly a Matisse before, but it's just hideous now on macOS. Who thought "easy to use" rhymed with "make the icons look like nearly identical and somewhat indistinguishable blue squares"? Who decided that an already rather unprofessional drawing of Tux needed to be transformed into Baby's First Vector Drawing™? And why, when previous versions already did a sem…

Let me guess you code in ruby and use a macbook air.
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