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Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by mynameisvlad »

gruez wrote: post #189
phamilton wrote: post #168

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> They are e-mailing employees directly and asking them to contact Oracle That would certainly look a lot like phishing

So 90% of cold-call recruiting/sales is also "phishing"?

Those are completely different.

One is "Hi my name is XYZ at company ABC. Do you want to talk about our product DEF?" to which you instantly know it's a sales call and how to respond.

The other is specifically emailing employees asking about their use in order to build a case against their employer in the hopes of getting an enterprise agreement or lawsuit out of it. It's far more shady and the actual nature of the communication is not revealed until after the fact. For all the developer knows, it's just a support email from Oracle asking them about how they use their product.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by kls »

Daviey wrote: post #11
orf wrote: post #6

> Added support for using Hyper-V as the fallback execution core on Windows host, to avoid inability to run VMs at the price of reduced performance Any comparisons between hyper-v and virtual box performance? I would have assumed hyper-v would be more performant.

Out of curiosity, why do you have a presumption that hyper-v would have better performance?

VB has lagged in support for good hardware acceleration, it's been an issue for years.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by nullify88 »

arminiusreturns wrote: post #135
chomp wrote: post #131

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Personal anecdote: They came after us, since the extension phones home and they could track it to our ASN. Asked us for an audit of all installs of VB. The idea was that they wanted to then charge us big money for a corporate license. Instead, IT banned it enterprise-wide. Which is sad, because we like it for Vagrant. We've since started moving all of our developer stuff to OpenShift, so we're not totally up a creek.

I have a devops guy trying to push me to use Vagrant at the moment, but I am aware of these issues with virtualbox. I was thinking about using one of the lxc shims, but now you have me curious, how useful is openshift in that "I want to spin local vms up for testing" approach? I thought it was much more geared to server and not workstation, as opposed to vagrant. Of course others are right, virt-manager is probably a…

Out of curiosity, what feature in the extension pack are you using with Vagrant?

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by jstarfish »

gruez wrote: post #187
jstarfish wrote: post #179

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Spamming employees with officious emails and hoping one of them is dumb enough to respond with pertinent information that subverts them or their organization is the textbook definition of phishing. What does it mean to you ?

from wikipedia: >Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication "using virtualbox" isn't sensitive information. I haven't read the emails, but I doubt Oracle is disguising themselves as the company's IT department or something.

If you don't think information that subjects an entity to massive legal liability is sensitive, then I really don't understand where you're coming from.

The entire point of these emails is to bypass established channels by getting random employees to leak information. If they want licensing information, there's an IT point of contact for that. Or Contracts. Or Legal. They are literally fishing for information leakage that would give them grounds to sue.

> I doubt Oracle is disguising themselves as the company's IT department or something.

They wouldn't. At this stage the point is to convey a false sense of authority without being outright fraud. You have to wrap everything in vague but threatening insinuations-- "help us or you could face fines of up to a bazillion dollars, and/or you might go to JAIL."

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Post by thecatspaw »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #101
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #36

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It's kinda weird that VirtualPC way back when is the only VM software I recall using that had copy-paste without guest extensions. Granted, it just typed text into the keyboard, but it was really handy none the less.

I've taken to a macro that automatically "types" the contents of the clipboard when I hit a hotkey. Super useful with VMs and remote access.

does that work fine with lag? No dropped characters?

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by AltruisticGap »

The VMSVGA for linux guests sounds awesome, since they previously removed 3D support for "linux guests using Wayland".. ie. Ubuntu 18.10.

Can any linux experts here explain briefly what is required to get this VMSVGA support? (win 10 host, Ubuntu guest)

Do I have to grab additional drivers or "guest additions" from VMware? Or will Ubuntu 18.10 have 3D support out of the box if I run in with VB6 ?

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by TeMPOraL »

gruez wrote: post #189
phamilton wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They are e-mailing employees directly and asking them to contact Oracle That would certainly look a lot like phishing

So 90% of cold-call recruiting/sales is also "phishing"?

I'd say "yes". If a cold-call results in anything than blacklisting the company that called you, you're setting yourself up for failure.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Post by Drdrdrq »

jstarfish wrote: post #185
NullPrefix wrote: post #147

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Without the extension VirtualBox VMs are pretty much shit.

Extensions add "support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP, disk encryption, NVMe and PXE boot for Intel cards." I'd argue the added features themselves are mostly shit. If you need hypervisor RDP or FDE there are much better solutions than VirtualBox.

I don't care much about other features either, but accessing USB devices is often invaluable.
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