VirtualBox is garbage • Hacker News Board

Re: VirtualBox is garbage

#11

Post by Freaky » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 1:39 PM UTC

hbrouwer wrote: post #3

sp332 wrote: post #2

I can't remember the last time I saw a stock Ubuntu guest crash a VM process, but VirtualBox crashed 4 times in the last 2 days.

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.

Re: VirtualBox is garbage

#12

Post by sp332 » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 1:40 PM UTC

jfruh wrote: post #8

Has anyone managed to get Windows 8 running in VirtualBox on OS X? I've tried, keep getting errors.

It works fairly well (a bit slow) on Win7. Have you followed these instructions? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2995010

Re: VirtualBox is garbage

#13

Post by buster » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 1:40 PM UTC

I recently switched from VMWare to Virtualbox because i was sick of finding patches for VMWare kernel modules everytime there is a new kernel version out. I had some major bugs on VMWare too, usually. Either some keys stopped working (in the host system!) or the VM crashed completely.. I used Virtualbox only for a few hours but it didn't have any hickups so far.

Unfortunately i can't read the article either..

Re: VirtualBox is garbage

#14

Post by wladimir » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 1:41 PM UTC

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...

Re: VirtualBox is garbage

#15

Post by jsherer » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 1:41 PM UTC

mrsebastian wrote: post #5

Aw, I think we killed the site :( Has someone got a copy of the text?

I wonder if he was hosting it on his VBox VM? :P

Re: VirtualBox is garbage

#16

Post by pwaring » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 1:42 PM UTC

Potentially easier link to read, in terms of the threading:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1200194

Re: VirtualBox is garbage

#17

Post by sunsu » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 1:43 PM UTC

I only use it as a local development server running Ubuntu, but I've never had any problems with Virtualbox running on OSX or Win7.

Re: VirtualBox is garbage

#18

Post by buster » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 1:45 PM UTC

buster wrote: post #13

I recently switched from VMWare to Virtualbox because i was sick of finding patches for VMWare kernel modules everytime there is a new kernel version out. I had some major bugs on VMWare too, usually. Either some keys stopped working (in the host system!) or the VM crashed completely.. I used Virtualbox only for a few hours but it didn't have any hickups so far. Unfortunately i can't read the article either..

That's the mailinglist entry:

http://pastebin.com/WiVPiMgp

Re: VirtualBox is garbage

#19

Post by patrickod » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 1:47 PM UTC

I can't read the article at the moment as it seems the server has died but I can say that in my use of VirtualBox on OS X in the last 2 years I have yet to have a major crash. The majority of the time it has been used for very temporary staging environments in Debian and it's been perfect for this.

Re: VirtualBox is garbage

#20

Post by WhatDoIKnow » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 1:48 PM UTC

I've used it for years on Ubuntu and Windows with almost no issues. This headline is garbage.