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- Duggan360, on 05/04/2008, -5/+64Im just looking at stuff that isn't about Barack Obama
- nanostream, on 05/04/2008, -1/+58VirtualBox is really handy; it lets you boot an existing WinXP install from your physical HD partition!
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=769883 - Planets, on 05/04/2008, -3/+38Does this run on Windows as well?
- Kingoftherings, on 05/04/2008, -0/+35Still waiting on full 3D support :(
- morphado, on 05/04/2008, -1/+34yes, of course
- srg13, on 05/04/2008, -0/+30Woah, I didn't know Sun bought VirtualBox... It's great software though, and I hope they keep it GPL
- specialK16, on 05/04/2008, -0/+29Whoever gets full 3d support first, VMWare or VBox or any other product, gets my vote!
- SirDaShadow, on 05/04/2008, -2/+20I don't blame Planets for asking. Sun bought Virtualbox and having its name on confused the heck out of me as well and I've been using it for years. They need to do something about the name...
- frouse, on 05/04/2008, -0/+17Seamless windows for linux guests! Excellent
- swordedge, on 05/04/2008, -0/+16Sun bought Innotek, the German company that managed the open source virtual box project.
- Eldoo77, on 05/04/2008, -1/+16Am I the only one that read VB and instantly thought Visual Basic?
- Stonekeeper, on 05/04/2008, -1/+15VB is the best desktop virtulisation software around.
- specialK16, on 05/04/2008, -0/+14"SATA support for up to 32 hard disks per VM (first product in the industry to do SATA!)"
And as you can see, it's already proving to be a great deal. - jordn, on 05/04/2008, -0/+14link to changelog:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog - Sinistral, on 05/04/2008, -0/+13I saw that too, but if you look at the wording, it's Mac OS X _hosting_, which means that the real OS is Mac OS, and you're using something else as the guest (aka virtualized) OS.
- SteveMax, on 05/04/2008, -1/+13Wait, you mean Linux isn't the same as Ubuntu?!?!?!?!!1/?11oneslasheleven?
- picpak, on 05/04/2008, -1/+13Digg me down, I didn't see I could just click the file name (virtualbox_1.6.0-30421_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb) to get the file.
- lieven, on 05/04/2008, -0/+11It's also useful for running other operating systems
- TechCF, on 05/04/2008, -2/+12Hmm, sounds great for Boot Camp!
- jbenson2, on 05/04/2008, -11/+21Version 1.6 had 2,000 improvements?
Version 1.5 must have sucked really bad. - bigfloppydonkey, on 05/04/2008, -0/+9Been using this since 1.3
I like it a lot! It is a very nice product. The only thing that keeps me from using it instead of VMWare or Parallels (this is OS X) is the bridged network support. - specialK16, on 05/04/2008, -0/+9Server Virtualization ftw!
- onefix, on 05/04/2008, -0/+8I don't know if you are joking or not, but 1.5.6 (the last version of 1.5) was really the last version released by Innotek before the Sun merger. Ok, it was released a week after the merger was announced, but 1.6 is the first release that Sun would have had a big hand in. So, I would figure that a majority of those improvements are on Solaris which probably did suck.
- Kennerk, on 05/04/2008, -0/+8*error*
- Phoros, on 05/04/2008, -1/+9Hey, Looks like 3d support is well under way!
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/475 - Gutterpunk, on 05/04/2008, -0/+7No, 2000 improvements. They counted them. It's not 2000 "bug fix", but 2000 improvements!
- warringgael, on 05/04/2008, -0/+7How does it compare to Wine for the purposes of running windows only apps? The new Wine looks pretty good and i dont have any experience with Virtualbox. Can i run i386 only software on an x64 OS with this?
- ryryindo, on 05/04/2008, -0/+7c'mon, read the article aready...
"Supported host operating systems include Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp (experimental OSE builds), Windows, and Solaris/OpenSolaris.
Supported guest operating systems include FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, OS/2 Warp, Windows and Solaris." - MasteRR, on 05/04/2008, -0/+7Don't hold your breath. No VM can do that correctly yet. So far all we have is a Wine layer that makes it partially work.
- kaiwai, on 05/04/2008, -7/+14because unfortunately there is a generation of Linux users who think that Linux equals Ubuntu.
- MattBD, on 05/04/2008, -0/+7Yes. I often run it on my Windows laptop as its more powerful than my Kubuntu one. It's great for trying out new Linux distros.
- specialK16, on 05/04/2008, -0/+6https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/ ...
- Smegzor, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6I did too until I read 'is the best' then I knew it couldn't be that VB :)
- kymike, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6Indeed. I was very disapointed with VMWare (the free version), and then tried VirtualBox. Wow - my virtual XP system boots up much quicker than my "real" XP system on the same laptop! (Bear in mind that the "real" one has been gathering bloat for about three years.)
- EclipseAgent, on 05/04/2008, -0/+6ESX is in a different class. This is a replacement for VMWare Workstation and not the enterprise level software like VMWare ESX
- jasutton, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5I haven't been able to. I've tried several (patched) copies of Tiger and Leopard and I can't get any of them to even get into the installer.
- werries, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5no, you're not. i did too. =/ God i hate that programming language.
and to Stonekeeper, VB was the first word, context not read yet, so its an easy mistake. - ShyGuy91284, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5Do they have optomized drivers for WIndows Guests? That's always been my biggest gripe with Linux VM's. Without the optomized display and mouse drivers (which SuSE would let you lease for an arm and a leg as I recall), using Windows is a rather skippy experience....
- misterjangles, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5If you go to the parallels beta forums, the latest version of parallels server runs OSX virtually - but the host has to be running Leopard Server version on Apple hardware. The limitation is only due to the Apple EULA, the parallels developers on the forum have specifically said that there is no technical limitation, rather it is just the Apple license.
- desuexmachina, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5Because if we focussed on our political parties we'd crawl up in our igloos and cry ourselves to sleep.
- nanostream, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5I think I've done all the dirty work putting the tutorial together... I might have overused my product key =]
But I don't believe there is anything left to worry about - I've figured out a way to activate only once when booting from Virtualbox. Other than that XP doesn't mind.. From my experience everything should be fine. If you do decide to try it, let me know how it goes! - PolarZoe, on 05/04/2008, -1/+6Can it also run 64-bit guests on 32-bit host with 64-bit hardware?
- theaceoffire, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5It will run all 2d applications.
3d and programs that require access to your video card will probably not work (Since it emulates hardware).
So if it works in Wine, it can use your video card. - arcticblue, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5It's not perfect. I think it only works with DX8 and *some* DX9 apps. None of the games I have work under it.
- onefix, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5One of the biggest advantages of this virtual machine is seamless windowing of Windows guests (think like parallels on the Mac only for Linux).
- diggrim, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5I think it's a problem of software/hardware interfaces...3D requires high speed direct access, aka no multi-user environments
- warringgael, on 05/04/2008, -2/+7No i think you're right. Im pretty sure thats in their EULA. Ive been thats basically the reason why hackintosh and OSx86 violates their EULA cuz its not on apple hardware
- onefix, on 05/04/2008, -0/+5Yes, but you need to have SSE3 and an Intel VT-x capable processor.
- nailer, on 05/04/2008, -1/+6To download without the Sun download manager *****, ignore the orange download button and click the filename.
- misterjangles, on 05/04/2008, -0/+4I'm not a hardware expert but i had guessed the problem is that 3D graphics rely on the video card hardware acceleration. So video card makers will need to provide virtualization support before we will get good performance on a virtual machine. Does anybody know if this is true..?
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