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An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project

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Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project

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Post by j_baker »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #6
rbanffy wrote: post #2

Hope not. I fear most for OpenSolaris. It's harder to fork than VirtualBox and far bigger.

How come? Our experience with OpenSolaris so far has been headache-y.

Last time I experimented with OpenSolaris, it seemed as though it was very useful for Java development, but not a whole lot else. It might have changed since then though.

Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project

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Post by coverband »

I love this thing but it goes through too frequent updates. They just had 3.1.8 9 days ago and now they have 3.2. It's not quiet about the updates either, so I feel bad if I don't upgrade. I wish updates had known release dates, except where security bugs are fixed.

Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project

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Post by rbanffy »

j_baker wrote: post #11
thaumaturgy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How come? Our experience with OpenSolaris so far has been headache-y.

Last time I experimented with OpenSolaris, it seemed as though it was very useful for Java development, but not a whole lot else. It might have changed since then though.

It's a decent Unix OS. It's as comfy as any modern Linux distro.

Much nicer than, say, AIX for a development desktop.

Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project

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Post by kierank »

runevault wrote: post #3

Considering my primary dev environment for personal projects is an Ubuntu 10.04 VM running on Virtual Box, this is good news. Double bonus the new version has support for taking full advantage of i5 and i7 procs, and I'm running an i7 920. Time to upgrade when I get home tonight.

Virtualbox is absolutely brilliant for reverse-engineering windows executables so I'm glad to hear this.

Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project

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Post by vindice »

kierank wrote: post #14
runevault wrote: post #3

Considering my primary dev environment for personal projects is an Ubuntu 10.04 VM running on Virtual Box, this is good news. Double bonus the new version has support for taking full advantage of i5 and i7 procs, and I'm running an i7 920. Time to upgrade when I get home tonight.

Virtualbox is absolutely brilliant for reverse-engineering windows executables so I'm glad to hear this.

That sounds really interesting. I use VirtualBox all the time and have done a bit of reverse-engineering in the past. Could you elaborate on how VirtualBox helps with reverse-engineering windows executables please?

Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project

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Post by patrickk »

While I'm glad to see Oracle are pushing the development of VirtualBox, I'm fearful they will make it 'not-free' and try to price it like VMware Workstation. I have the same fear for MYSQL. Let's hope Oracle have the sense not to tinker too much.

Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project

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Post by ebiester »

kierank wrote: post #14
runevault wrote: post #3

Considering my primary dev environment for personal projects is an Ubuntu 10.04 VM running on Virtual Box, this is good news. Double bonus the new version has support for taking full advantage of i5 and i7 procs, and I'm running an i7 920. Time to upgrade when I get home tonight.

Virtualbox is absolutely brilliant for reverse-engineering windows executables so I'm glad to hear this.

Can you point to a link for this, or briefly explain? Are you connecting vbox to a debugger?

Re: An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project

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Post by jluxenberg »

patrickk wrote: post #16

While I'm glad to see Oracle are pushing the development of VirtualBox, I'm fearful they will make it 'not-free' and try to price it like VMware Workstation. I have the same fear for MYSQL. Let's hope Oracle have the sense not to tinker too much.

It would be unfortunate if they decided to start charging for the free edition, however most of the product is GPLed. The only parts which are not open source are a machine-level RDP server, USB support, and USB over RDP (see http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions). I'm sure the community would fork it if Oracle closed it up.
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