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VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by papaf »

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. :-)

I recently made the change from Macports to Ubuntu on VirtualBox. Things are much nicer now. My one tip would be to have any datafiles separate (ie not read/write files on the Mac filesystem directly - even though you can) and communicate between the two "machines" using version control.

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by kirubakaran »

johng wrote: post #22

It's important if you install windows in a VM to install the "guest tools" with Virtual box.. it makes it 100x more responsive. Don't forget this step.

This is true even if the guest OS is something other than Windows. Automatic mouse capture is a very convenient.

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by scorpioxy »

fno wrote: post #24

I love VirtualBox so much. Thanks to Innotek for the free and open-source distribution. I do use the closed source version though. If only they would support branching snapshopts. For example a main VM and then you could have one work tree and one webbrowsing tree. This would make using it for daily work even more appealing. Well, some day, I am sure.

I'd like to echo your wish. I also would like to have that feature.

I'd like to use when I am debugging a configuration issue on the OS with a certain application. Not a show-stopper by any means, but a would like to have.

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

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. :-)

I think this is the way to go for everyone newbie or not. If you're not going to be deploying on OS X then why develop under it. VirtualBox with your deployment system on Mac OS X gives you the best of all possible worlds.

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by Andys »

jsz0 wrote: post #28
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…

Since this thread is becoming a VMWare hate session I'll add my gripes: -No native VMWare infrastructure client for Linux (or OSX) -Very limited hardware support for ESX -Stupid restrictions on the free version of ESX to up-sell. (ie, no jumbo frames on iSCSI?) It's no surprise to me VMWare has completely squandered their lead in virtualization. The actual end user experience of VMWare products has gone steadily down…

ESX isn't really comparable to VirtualBox, and is quite different to the other VMware products, so this isn't a particularly appropriate place to talk about it. But I must say that making a product like ESX have a free version as powerful as it is, is simply amazing and I am grateful for it.

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by berntb »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #35
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. :-)

I think this is the way to go for everyone newbie or not. If you're not going to be deploying on OS X then why develop under it. VirtualBox with your deployment system on Mac OS X gives you the best of all possible worlds.

I work on Linux, Mac is a hobby.

It is a bit of a failure to go the virtual way, but I have too little background on (modern) bsd stuff.

Re: VirtualBox 3.0 Released

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Post by sfphotoarts »

Did anyone get this to work on OSX? I installed it on my MBP, put Ubuntu 9.04 and it always locks up within a few minutes after booting, usually while its running the updater. Just wondered if others see this or its just me.
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