Nice company you have there, shame if something were unlicensed eh?
If you know how many companies have this tech for license enforcement, you'd be more than amazed. Seriously.
VS Ultimate, SQL Server, AEM, Sitecore, SharePoint, Azure, AWS,...
That's... very surprising. Vorbis is usually regarded as obsolete in favor of Opus. Did they hit some obscure compatibility issue or what?
The last time I tried this, it was so bad that I had to drastically decrease the window size to get reasonable performance. As in, it would basically lock up above a certain window size, and no reasonable amount of waiting would get it to respond. (And yes, I fiddled with all of the obvious knobs for CPU/memory/graphics/etc.) I figure in this day and age of AWS and the like, we should have very, very good open source virtualization software, but no amount of fiddling seems to get it to work well for me.
The native display managers for XFCE, MATE, and (I believe) KDE allow you to disable compositing. GNOME and Unity's native display managers don't (AFAIK). I have no idea if display compositing can be disabled on macOS.
e: my memory slips me, I've already run vulkan apps in qemu.
> [lexi@arch-steam ~]$ vkcube
> Selected GPU 0: Virtio-GPU Venus (Intel(R) UHD Graphics (CML GT2)), type: 1
Granted this was ChromeOS[0], but ultimately it's the same qemu. You just need the right flags and for the guest to have a mesa driver aware of virtio-gpu.
VMWare does this much better, but is a pain to run on up-to-date kernels.
The situation sucks, is what I'm saying.
(Note: This is for the next major release of Mac OS.)
The link for that is here [0].
The only thing I would add to that is to use a private browser session.
Also as a tip fill in "None" for business name, if you are using it privately - as it is a required field for some ffing reason.
But yes, the free VMware Fusion Player works fine.
Still not as good (as I remember VMware would provide), but better!
BTW, tested 7.0 just now -- anecdotally Ubuntu's UI does not feel any faster and somehow still depends on the resolution not the size of the window being moved
It doesn't help against sophisticated keyloggers on the host (although I'd assume you would have a little bit of protection if you don't normally work as admin). It is more for the case that your PC gets stolen, or confiscated by authorities.
I think my PCs which shipped with full disc encryption are secure (Windows, macOS), but I never looked into it in detail. And I don't know for sure who could access it besides me (my job, Microsoft/Apple, law enforcement). My old shared desktop PC is definitely not encrypted. I only really have confidence in the Linux laptop I set up.
So for me it would be a privacy and comfort win to just have a small VM for sensitive stuff which is easy to encrypt.
virtualbox over the years is very helpful to me and I'm grateful for it. The only problem I had is that it can not handle high throughput under stress(e.g. build full Android release leads to filesystem corruption), for 99% of the time it is very usable.
ORACLE is just releasing this to dupe people into thinking they can use this for free (they can’t).
You can use the extension pack for personal use but any use in a business context requires a license.
I'm all for being professional and paying for your tools, but it seems VirtualBox is in the class of "haha I'm not paying for that" like TeamViewer and WinRAR.
I used to use VirtualBox heavily about 15 years ago and it seemed to work well back then for Linux hosts and guests.
Since then I've used it sporadically, using it for Linux guests on Windows 7/8/10 as well as Windows XP and 7 on higher Windows.
A few days ago I tried to install Windows 10 guest (4cores/8GB RAM) on host Windows 10 host(32GB/6cores)
This was on VirtualBox 6.3 and the performance was really slow.
Installation took an hour - using same NVME Samsung 980Pro for official Microsoft windows.iso and installation.
After installation boot is slowish - a few minutes, and guest system feels like using an Atom processor not i7.
I wonder why.
It's almost certainly something to do with this:
https://www.vectis.com/media/vectis-ip-announces-call-for-pa...
Which is complete bullsh*t.
Looks like Fraunhoffer and Dolby intend to go after any commercial product using Opus, and demand fees. They claim this is only for hardware devices … for now. As to software, they only state they do not intend to go after open source software. But since Virtualbox is also commercial software, Oracle is at risk.
No idea what bugref:10275 is. It's presumably not https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10275
[1] https://shop.oracle.com/apex/f?p=dstore:product:265957255943...
I guess I’ll eventually dual boot, but it would nice to have iMessage as an alt-tab.
On OSX then just use any RDP client to your liking to connect to the vm/container.
The Ubuntu ARM image from their “gallery” works perfectly out of the box so is a good starting point.
You can use VirtualBox with Secure Boot on a Dell XPS 9300 running Ubuntu. When you boot it up after installing, it prompts you to install the keys.
Ooo, can’t wait to try this out!
Because you can't do this with Virtualbox.
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.
But if you just want to run x86 Windows software, it's much better to run that under a Windows 11 ARM64 VM.
EDIT: Correction, it was four years ago from my few seconds of rechecking myself
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.