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VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Be careful about VirtualBox Extensions which is non free on commercial environments. Oracle is hunting non compliance and VB provides them with lots of telemetry.

> Be careful about VirtualBox Extensions

Don't you mean: Be careful to follow the licensing for whatever products you use.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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post #4
post #3

Be careful about VirtualBox Extensions which is non free on commercial environments. Oracle is hunting non compliance and VB provides them with lots of telemetry.

> Be careful about VirtualBox Extensions Don't you mean: Be careful to follow the licensing for whatever products you use.

sometimes you just want a simple vb ubuntu vm. however virtualbox locks copy paste from host to vm support behind extensions which are free only for personal use(which you are using but good luck proving that in court)

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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> Added support for using Hyper-V as the fallback execution core on Windows host, to avoid inability to run VMs at the price of reduced performance

Any comparisons between hyper-v and virtual box performance? I would have assumed hyper-v would be more performant.

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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I've switched our development environment years ago to VMWare (OSX) from VirtualBox because it didn't work well with fixed IPs, would change the IPs and I couldn't pin them - worked for some time then changed the IP. Has this changed?

Re: VirtualBox 6.0 released

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Be careful about VirtualBox Extensions which is non free on commercial environments. Oracle is hunting non compliance and VB provides them with lots of telemetry.

How do you license them? I've never seen a "Buy now" link, only the text about "Free for personal use" every time.
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