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VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration

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Re: VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration

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Post by samsaga2 »

bratao wrote: post #22

Oracle was responsible for my first complaint, while I was doing my first internship in the US. Because once I used my private laptop with the VirtualBox Extension Pack while connected to the work network. The incredible legal/licensing team got in touch because they identified this use. Since than I avoid Oracle like plague.

Something similar happened to me, but with Qt. I installed Qt Open Source at home to compile OpenMSX debugger (a hobby project to which I have contributed). I don't know why I used my work email account instead of my personal one. The next day at work, we received a call from Qt with threats saying that we had to buy a licence.

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Post by ridgered4 »

sturadnidge wrote: post #32
eslaught wrote: post #12

Has anyone had luck getting decent GUI performance (macOS host, Linux guest)? I don't need 3D, just sane 2D performance. The last time I tried this, it was so bad that I had to drastically decrease the window size to get reasonable performance. As in, it would basically lock up above a certain window size, and no reasonable amount of waiting would get it to respond. (And yes, I fiddled with all of the obvious knobs f…

I discovered a few days ago that VMware now offer a 'Fusion 12 Player', which is free (as in beer) albeit you have to register to get the download + key. Might be worth looking into that?

Vmware has the best implementation of a paravirtualized GPU IMO, and has for probably a decade. Somehow this rarely comes up, but VMware itself seems to only begrudgingly want to sell their workstation products at this point.

Re: VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration

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Post by ridgered4 »

imhoguy wrote: post #138
flatiron wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s wrong with qemu/kvm?

I moved from vbox to qemu/kvm. Windows UI was much faster on vbox thanks to its 3D acceleration solution. That is kind of translation layer which utilizes/shares your host GPU. I couldn't get such performance gains with qemu/kvm. Possibly it is available with dedicated GPU passed thru to the guest, but my laptop only has one GPU taken by the host.

This is indeed a real sore spot for qemu/kvm. VMware has good tech here as well.

One thing you may be able to do is use GVT-g to use a time slice of your Intel iGPU and pass that through. But it doesn't work on all Intel iGPUs and will never be available on newer Intel hardware.

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Post by [deleted] »

synergy20 wrote: post #16
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #11

What value does vm encryption have? I’d rather encrypt my host and leave my vms unencrypted, given it would be possible to back door virtual box binaries given an unencrypted file system, or keylog keys assuming a remote breach.

I used to encrypt ubuntu or home directory, these days I just use virtualbox's vm encryption, worked well so far. virtualbox over the years is very helpful to me and I'm grateful for it. The only problem I had is that it can not handle high throughput under stress(e.g. build full Android release leads to filesystem corruption), for 99% of the time it is very usable.

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Post by GekkePrutser »

Derbasti wrote: post #104
eslaught wrote: post #12

Has anyone had luck getting decent GUI performance (macOS host, Linux guest)? I don't need 3D, just sane 2D performance. The last time I tried this, it was so bad that I had to drastically decrease the window size to get reasonable performance. As in, it would basically lock up above a certain window size, and no reasonable amount of waiting would get it to respond. (And yes, I fiddled with all of the obvious knobs f…

I use 4K screens. Virtualbox is literally unusable at those resolutions. I have to run VMs at 1080p and upscale them in Virtualbox. At 4k, simple actions such as opening the start menu take several seconds. VMWare does this much better, but is a pain to run on up-to-date kernels. The situation sucks, is what I'm saying.

Did you try KVM? I'm using that for servers so I've never tried this particular usecase but I'm very happy with it overall.

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Post by _abox »

captainmuon wrote: post #109
metadat wrote: post #13

Is there a way to stop vbox from phoning home to Oracle?

Is there a documented case of Oracle suing somebody for using VirtualBox on a company network? They have no way of knowing if it is some private person on a guest WiFi or if it is used in production. I know Oracle is famously litigious, but I've only heard about this in cases of CAD software. I'm all for being professional and paying for your tools, but it seems VirtualBox is in the class of "haha I'm not paying for…

They've done it to my employer. I won't go on the record but it's definitely happening.

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Post by Alex3917 »

danwee wrote: post #139
Alex3917 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

UTM doesn't have vagrant support yet: https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/issues/12518 I basically just want to continue using vagrant, ansible, and ubuntu on my M1 -- what's currently the best stack for that? I tried out Parallels, but there don't seem to be any reputable and up-to-date Ubuntu images for it.

Vagrant + vmware plugin + vmware fusion tech preview. All open source (and free). It does work on my M1 (e.g., I'm able to spin up 4 Ubuntu VMs on my M1 for playing around with Ansible and deployments. Each VM with its own static IP). Now, you either have to trust on one of the Vagrant images for ARM available on Vagrant Cloud, or bake our own using, for instance, Packer.

Thanks, this is great! Do you have any opinion on the trustworthiness of the Bento or Roboxes (generic/) builds?

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Post by tredre3 »

dotancohen wrote: post #128
qalmakka wrote: post #114

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I was a big user of dual boot and VFIO, but thanks to the advent of Proton and the recent Wine improvements (DXVK, ...) I've found myself rebooting into Windows for gaming less and less over the course of the last few years. Sure, not everything works, but basically everything single player does with just a few hiccups.

Have you considered just not playing the games that require Windows? There are _plenty_ of really great Linux games. If not, I'd love to know why. I'm not being polemic, I'm not a gamer, but simply avoiding games that don't run on Linux seems rather easy today.

> There are _plenty_ of really great Linux games. If not, I'd love to know why.

That's simply not true, there's a handful at best. There are plenty of Proton games, though.

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