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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…
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…
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).
You can use the extension pack for personal use but any use in a business context requires a license.
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.
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Don’t use it. Period. ORACLE is just releasing this to dupe people into thinking they can use this for free (they can’t).
Only the extension pack is not free to use. The base product is under the GPL v2 and is free to use. You can use the extension pack for personal use but any use in a business context requires a license.
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 don't know how the perf is, but this might be of interest: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run... (Note: This is for the next major release of Mac OS.)
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.