VirtualBox 6.0 released • Hacker News Board

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by PolCPP » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:06 PM UTC

'MacOS Guest Additions: initial support'

I thought that with a dozen hacks it already worked? What did they add? Official support?

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by coldtea » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:11 PM UTC

jason_slack wrote: post #71

tmn007 wrote: post #3

Be careful about VirtualBox Extensions which is non free on commercial environments. Oracle is hunting non compliance and VB provides them with lots of telemetry.

Sorry. I have never heard of this. I switched to VB earlier this year for simple home use testing apps and working with large data sets. VMWare Fusion just caused me to many problems. Can you explain how I need to protect myself?

You switched to VB because VMWare Fusion was problematic?

That sounds like exchanging a Toyota for an Edsel.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by ikeboy » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:13 PM UTC

0x0 wrote: post #77

ikeboy wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://m.cdw.com/product/oracle-vm-virtualbox-enterprise-li... $39.99, no minimum license count

That link only shows: "Access Denied You don't have permission to access " http://m.cdw.com/product/oracle-vm-virtualbox-enterprise-lic... on this server."

Works for me. Are you accessing this from the US?

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by Koshkin » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:14 PM UTC

But the true hacker uses QEMU.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by xbryanx » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:16 PM UTC

znpy wrote: post #56

I love how the website has been keep basically unchanged through the years. Its design is clear and easily navigable. I hope it doesn't change.

I think (guessing) that's because this site is 90% just-a-slightly-themed Trac install. It's admirable that the design for that tool has stayed so consistent.

https://trac.edgewall.org/

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by cm2187 » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:20 PM UTC

teekert wrote: post #65

robin_reala wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

But can't the poor souls stuck on windows use hyper-v and RDP into the vm?

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by jki275 » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:21 PM UTC

cm2187 wrote: post #86

teekert wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

But can't the poor souls stuck on windows use hyper-v and RDP into the vm?

I use hyper-v and rdp every day, very happy with both. I even run Linux VMs in hyper-v.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by vbezhenar » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:25 PM UTC

cm2187 wrote: post #86

teekert wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

But can't the poor souls stuck on windows use hyper-v and RDP into the vm?

You need Windows Pro as a guest to RDP.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by intsunny » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

DNT_ wrote: post #12

Is there anyone who could explain to me why virtualbox is still being developed? I don't mean that as an attack on the developers or the software but Oracle ruined pretty much all of Sun's software with VBox being one of the only two exception along with Java.

I've always assumed Oracle deeply depends on VirtualBox internally, and the amount of feedback they receive via public channels is far cheaper than keeping it closed source and having to internally test the tool.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by nickjj » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 2:27 PM UTC

user5994461 wrote: post #57

nickjj wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah it's crazy that it's not fixed yet. About 5 years when I was using VMs for my development environment I remember that bug causing all sorts of issues with assets not loading correctly. It's also why I recommend people avoid Docker Toolbox like the plague since it uses VirtualBox under the hood. Either use Docker for Windows (if you have Windows 10 Pro), or roll your own VMWare Player (free) VM which doesn't have…

This might surprise you but neither of these 2 are bugs. VirtualBox shared folders simply don't offer the guarantees of a local filesystem. They are not a local filesystem, they are network drives mounted as NFS, with the abysmal support and quirk that comes with that. sendfile() doesn't work on network drives. it never did. the host is not aware of changes made to the remote filesystem from another host. it cannot s…

But from our point of view (the end user), it feels like a bug with VirtualBox because this problem doesn't exist when using VMWare or Hyper-V.

I used a VMWare Player driven VM as a primary Linux development environment for full time web development for literally 4 years straight and I encountered the issue 0 times, but with VirtualBox I encountered the issue in 1 day.

Maybe it's not technically a bug with VirtualBox, but it is something that makes VirtualBox unsuitable as a dev environment for web development.