VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by JshWright » Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 1:03 PM UTC

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by JshWright » Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 1:04 PM UTC

New features include guest SMP support, OpenGL 2.0, and experimental Direct3D 8/9 support (for windows guests, obviously...)

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by jdbeast00 » Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 1:23 PM UTC

hope it means this bug is fixed now....

http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/2978

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by sant0sk1 » Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 2:10 PM UTC

I didn't know other HNers were such VirtualBox fans! I use it daily and love it. This release looks great.

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by jacquesm » Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 2:12 PM UTC

I've just finished comparing virtualbox and vmware, and not of my own volition. I needed to compare a bunch of different file system solutions for clustering (see post elsewhere) and after working with vmware for several days finally gave up (vmware server 2.0), and tried the same under virtualbox. Virtualbox did the job quietly without fuss or license keys, where vmware was nothing but a pita and eventually refused to work.

The host os on the test machine is Ubuntu, the guest of was CentOs 4.7.

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by Bjoern » Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 2:14 PM UTC

3.0 Already? Wasn't just sometime ago 2.3 the newest?

While VirtualBox is really great I like OSE (OpenSourceEdition) better. Unfortunately if one needs e.g. usbhotplug then you have to use the commercial branch :/

Does anyone know when OSE will have that feature?

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by Bjoern » Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 2:16 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #5

I've just finished comparing virtualbox and vmware, and not of my own volition. I needed to compare a bunch of different file system solutions for clustering (see post elsewhere) and after working with vmware for several days finally gave up (vmware server 2.0), and tried the same under virtualbox. Virtualbox did the job quietly without fuss or license keys, where vmware was nothing but a pita and eventually refused…

I can confirm this, had a similar experience. Though the VMWare Player is a nice piece of easy software for people who don't need all the features.

On a side note, did you ever install MS Windows iso with a system running on a CPU with SSE3 extension? Wuuuahhh thats fast :)

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by berntb » Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 2:35 PM UTC

Excuse a newbie... is it worth trying Ubuntu on Mac with VirtualBox? What should I know?

(-: Please don't flame me. I might like ports as much as apt, if I knew it better. :-)

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by jodrellblank » Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 2:49 PM UTC

berntb wrote: post #8

Excuse a newbie... is it worth trying Ubuntu on Mac with VirtualBox? What should I know? (-: Please don't flame me. I might like ports as much as apt, if I knew it better. :-)

VirtualBox on the Mac is very nice. A respectably small download, an easy install, a pleasant GUI, it feels very polished and in my light use, both featureful and stable.

Yes, try it.

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by jli » Tue, Jun 30, 2009, 2:56 PM UTC

but how is it for mac uses? it seems not as nice compared to parallels?