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A slightly less caustic way of saying it would be to say that bug reports from things running on virtual box are garbage.
Otherwise, yours would be a much better title for this.
Has anyone managed to get Windows 8 running in VirtualBox on OS X? I've tried, keep getting errors.
First stop in the System menu. Start with the Motherboard
sub-menu and check Enable IO APIC to improve performance
for your virtual machine. In the Processor sub-menu check
Enable PAE/NX (again, to boost performance). Finally under
the Acceleration sub-menu make sure both of the hardware
virtualization boxes are checked—VT-x/AMD-V and Nested
Paging, respectively.Aw, I think we killed the site :( Has someone got a copy of the text?
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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I think I managed to crash it about ten times last sunday, doing nothing but browsing the web on a VM.
I can't remember the last time I crashed VirtualBox, browsing or not. Even with older 64-bit Flash. Only issue I recall is some snapshot breakage a while back. Yay anecdotes.
I know I use VirtualBox all the time to try out "risky" behaviors that often end in a crash, because I know I can just roll back if it doesn't work out.
Virtualbox works fine for me. Though I only use it to run Windows XP so I'm probably not a demanding customer, but calling it garbage is kind of over-the top. It's very useful for me for running some windows-only software that refuses to work in Wine, and to test my sw on windows without having to reboot...
1. Copy + paste randomly breaks between host win32, client ubuntu32.
2. Random freezes every so often.
3. Seamless mode extremely unreliable, does not draw correctly.
4. Horrible issues with shared folders breaking io operations. I actually got a (trivial) patch into golang to work around this issue (!). This also completely breaks ido mode completions in emacs.
5. Occasionally shared folders get into an odd state and no files can be read from/written to them.
4 + 5 might be specific to the way I use shared folders though, as I access them via a dropbox folder sat in a truecrypt volume.
Has anyone managed to get Windows 8 running in VirtualBox on OS X? I've tried, keep getting errors.
Yup, worked for me. Have you ticked all the relevant options in the VM Settings? First stop in the System menu. Start with the Motherboard sub-menu and check Enable IO APIC to improve performance for your virtual machine. In the Processor sub-menu check Enable PAE/NX (again, to boost performance). Finally under the Acceleration sub-menu make sure both of the hardware virtualization boxes are checked—VT-x/AMD-V and Ne…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think I managed to crash it about ten times last sunday, doing nothing but browsing the web on a VM.
I can't remember the last time I crashed VirtualBox, browsing or not. Even with older 64-bit Flash. Only issue I recall is some snapshot breakage a while back. Yay anecdotes.