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

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Post by okigan » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 12:44 AM UTC

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 had an issue thinking UI was slow, but it turned up that mouse pointer integration issue - simple check: get a USB mouse and inject that USB device into VM.

Still not as good (as I remember VMware would provide), but better!

BTW, tested 7.0 just now -- anecdotally Ubuntu's UI does not feel any faster and somehow still depends on the resolution not the size of the window being moved

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

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Post by bratao » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 12:47 AM UTC

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.

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

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Post by sebastien_b » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 12:52 AM UTC

Still by law firm ORACLE; this software thing is just a side business to extract licence fees out of companies that thought they could use this for free.

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

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Post by sebastien_b » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 12:53 AM UTC

metadat wrote: post #13

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

Don’t use it. Period.

ORACLE is just releasing this to dupe people into thinking they can use this for free (they can’t).

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

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Post by FeistySkink » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 12:55 AM UTC

Can I run this without having a tainted kernel on Linux? So that Secure Boot can stay on.

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

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Post by nicoburns » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 1:09 AM UTC

Alex3917 wrote: post #8

TillE wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you really need to, UTM (which uses qemu for x86). But if you just want to run x86 Windows software, it's much better to run that under a Windows 11 ARM64 VM.

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.

Can’t you just use the official Ubuntu installer with Parallels? (ARM version of course)

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

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Post by flatiron » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 1:17 AM UTC

FeistySkink wrote: post #25

Can I run this without having a tainted kernel on Linux? So that Secure Boot can stay on.

What’s wrong with qemu/kvm?

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

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Post by teilo » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 1:29 AM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

> Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers. Opus is no longer being used. I wonder why.

It cannot possibly be for technical reasons.

It's almost certainly something to do with this:

https://www.vectis.com/media/vectis-ip-announces-call-for-pa...

Which is complete bullsh*t.

Looks like Fraunhoffer and Dolby intend to go after any commercial product using Opus, and demand fees. They claim this is only for hardware devices … for now. As to software, they only state they do not intend to go after open source software. But since Virtualbox is also commercial software, Oracle is at risk.

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

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Post by nohankyou » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 1:30 AM UTC

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.

They just went ahead and sent us an invoice. Sales by extortion... so I made sure to replace our JRE in places (where Oracle snuck in) and uninstall anything else Oracle across our fleet.

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

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Post by stjohnswarts » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 1:30 AM UTC

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…

If you want great video performance you are doing it wrong. You can watch videos probably but I've never gotten good sound performance out of it. Most of my development is backend and web and it's fine for that. You absolutely have to not skimp on ram, cores, and need at least an SSD. I find it acceptable for what I do (rust windows programming) when I give it enough cpus on the 8 core system. Sure it's not straightup native but it's okay. You have obviously install all the guest additions (open source ones) to get about the best you're going to expect.