VirtualBox 5.1.30 released (opens in new tab)

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16 pointsthrowaway00718y ago16 comments

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blowski8y ago· 5 in thread

Any particular reason this made it onto the HN homepage?

Presumably because a lot of readers here use vagrant for development environments and may be interested in hearing about a particular bugfix in this release. That's why I clicked at least...

juice_bus8y ago

I was thinking the same thing and was even more confused when I saw the actual changelog.

cwt1378y ago

I guess if you can get 8 points in less than 15min on a slow news day, you will get on the homepage

tjoff8y ago

It is a popular and useful tool that has a great overlap with the HN community?

blowski8y ago

Sure it is, I love it and use it every day... but seeing something like this on the HN homepage makes me think something has happened I really need to know about.

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snowwindwaves8y ago· 4 in thread

Virtualbox is my go to on Windows. I have used VMware workstation but didn't see any advantage other than the availability of proper support for small businesses or individuals.

Why do people use VMware workstation over virtualbox?

gtirloni8y ago

VirtualBox shared folders are really really terrible.

With VMware Workstation that feature is super fast. The product has a much better experience overall.

Unfortunately, I didn't have much luck with Vagrant's VMware plugin (paid) and couldn't realistic make the switch.

It seems using each OS's native virtualization (Hyper-V, xhyve, KVM) is the way to go, but that means we have to maintain separate vagrant boxes, which we don't have to with VMware/VirtualBox since they work on Linux/OSX/Windows.

webwanderings8y ago

As far as I know, you can't share your VMs remotely on Virtual Box. You can, on VMware Workstation.

tjoff8y ago

Not sure what you mean with "share your VMs remotely".

You can of course install whatever remote server you want inside the VM but aside from that you can connect to a VM directly using VRDP.

But you can also manager your entire virtualbox instance using RemoteBox ( http://remotebox.knobgoblin.org.uk/about.cgi ) or from a web GUI using phpVirtualBox ( https://sourceforge.net/p/phpvirtualbox/wiki/Home/ ).

I'm sure there are other options as well.

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coffee98y ago

VirtualBox has a reputation of being technically poor and Oracle isn't helping.

juice_bus8y ago

VirtualBox 5.1.30 (released 2017-10-16)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* GUI: translation updates

* GUI: Fixed double mouse cursor when using mouse integration without Guest Additions, actually a Qt 5.6 bug fixed with QT 5.6.3 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15610)

* Solaris hosts: allow increasing MTU size for host-only adapter to 9706 bytes to support jumbo frames

* Linux hosts: glibc 2.26 compile fix

* Windows Additions: 3D related crash fix (bugs #17082, #17092)

2bluesc8y ago

I used to use VirtualBox on a Linux, but these days I've migrated to KVM/Qemu[0] + Virt-Manager[1]. It's much nicer to use native Linux virtual machine and not have to worry about kernel modules and proprietary licenses.

That said, the UI polish isn't as nice or intuitive as VirtualBox.

[0] https://www.linux-kvm.org/

[1] https://virt-manager.org/

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13 comments · 4 top-level

blowski8y ago· 5 in thread

Any particular reason this made it onto the HN homepage?

SteveNuts8y ago

Presumably because a lot of readers here use vagrant for development environments and may be interested in hearing about a particular bugfix in this release. That's why I clicked at least...

juice_bus8y ago

I was thinking the same thing and was even more confused when I saw the actual changelog.

cwt1378y ago

I guess if you can get 8 points in less than 15min on a slow news day, you will get on the homepage

tjoff8y ago

It is a popular and useful tool that has a great overlap with the HN community?

blowski8y ago

Sure it is, I love it and use it every day... but seeing something like this on the HN homepage makes me think something has happened I really need to know about.

1 more reply

snowwindwaves8y ago· 4 in thread

Virtualbox is my go to on Windows. I have used VMware workstation but didn't see any advantage other than the availability of proper support for small businesses or individuals.

Why do people use VMware workstation over virtualbox?

gtirloni8y ago

VirtualBox shared folders are really really terrible.

With VMware Workstation that feature is super fast. The product has a much better experience overall.

Unfortunately, I didn't have much luck with Vagrant's VMware plugin (paid) and couldn't realistic make the switch.

webwanderings8y ago

As far as I know, you can't share your VMs remotely on Virtual Box. You can, on VMware Workstation.

tjoff8y ago

Not sure what you mean with "share your VMs remotely".

You can of course install whatever remote server you want inside the VM but aside from that you can connect to a VM directly using VRDP.

I'm sure there are other options as well.

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coffee98y ago

VirtualBox has a reputation of being technically poor and Oracle isn't helping.

juice_bus8y ago

VirtualBox 5.1.30 (released 2017-10-16)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* GUI: translation updates

* GUI: Fixed double mouse cursor when using mouse integration without Guest Additions, actually a Qt 5.6 bug fixed with QT 5.6.3 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15610)

* Solaris hosts: allow increasing MTU size for host-only adapter to 9706 bytes to support jumbo frames

* Linux hosts: glibc 2.26 compile fix

* Windows Additions: 3D related crash fix (bugs #17082, #17092)

2bluesc8y ago

That said, the UI polish isn't as nice or intuitive as VirtualBox.

[0] https://www.linux-kvm.org/

[1] https://virt-manager.org/

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