> Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers. Opus is no longer being used. That's... very surprising. Vorbis is usually regarded as obsolete in favor of Opus. Did they hit some obscure compatibility issue or what?
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
#72What 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.
It is so you don't have to trust sysops, theoretically. The system admin won't be able to view the contents of the VM. Hyper-V supports this as well.
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#73Oooh! Will 2022 be the year when a virtualization platform can finally run The Sims 2? ;)
People were already playing GTA 5 at least five years ago using VFIO/PCIe Passthrough.
EDIT: Correction, it was four years ago from my few seconds of rechecking myself
Re: VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration
#74What’s the alternative for host on windows?
Hyper-V?
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
UTM. It's qemu under the hood and will emulate x86 if you want it to. (Or other architectures, it runs Mac OS 9 under an emulated PowerPC perfectly. Great fun.) But it's not quick. I would not attempt to run a modern Windows on it, I don't think it would work due to a lack of performance.
For those not familiar with UTM: https://mac.getutm.app/ "Securely run operating systems on your Mac"
$10 for a GUI.
Re: VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration
#76What’s the alternative for host on windows?
VirtualBox is cross-platform; runs on Linux, Mac, Windows. Images are portable. As a sibling notes, the Windows built-in is Hyper-V. Or if you don’t like your money, VMWare.
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#77Re: VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I don’t think there is anything stopping anyone from building a competing extension pack which is 100% open source, and includes whatever useful features Oracle’s has (RDP is the most obviously useful; some people would benefit from the PXE support). One could potentially reuse code from other (GPL-compatible) open source projects in doing so.
Also, one could make a fork which just rebrands it and removes all references to non-open source components - a bit like what Oracle themselves do to RHEL.
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#79Re: VirtualBox 7.0 Released – Full VM Encryption Support, New Direct3D Acceleration
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
yep, same. Oracle can die in a fire.
And who would take their place moving Java forward?
Since Sun went down, it hardly goes over 10% of external contributions, and no one else cared about getting hold of Java 6.