Installed VirtualBox 1.6, and it has been very slick thus far. I created a Windows XP guest with a dynamically growing disk:
In the new version we get the slick new Sun screen when booting a guest:
After the install, I installed the “VirtualBox Guest Addition” and rebooted. I went into the menu and selected “Seamless Mode”:
From there it actually worked completely as expected, which was very cool. I have been seeing the Mac people with parallels and it is great to have something equivalent now:
You can download packages for both i386 and AMD64 for Hardy at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
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#1 by Scott Wegner on May 6, 2008 - 7:56 pm
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I just started using VirtualBox for a Windows XP guest as well. However, I just applied the service pack 3 that came out today, and it broke everything. My guess is that it has something to do with the guest additions installed, but its hard to say.
Moral of the story: make a snapshot before you upgrade. I forgot to, and now I’m reinstalling Windows.
#2 by Aleksey on May 6, 2008 - 11:53 pm
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VirtualBox 1.5 had those features already. The one thing with seamless mode as it doesn’t put the windows into your existing taskbar but rather makes you run 2 seperate tsakbars which is annoying when you have two panels already. And in seamless mode, all the Windows’ windows are on one layer, so you can’t mix all the windows from Linux and Windows. But still, VirtualBox rocks! ^_^
#3 by karol on May 7, 2008 - 6:06 am
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What’s more, VirtualBox is muuuch faster than VMWare Workstation. I am now in the middle of converting all my VMs to VirtualBox because speed difference is really amazing.
I can finally launch Documentum 6, Weblogic, Tomcat, Eclipse plus some other software on 3GB 2 core laptop and work instead of watching blinking HD led which happened on VMWare all the time.
Too bad that the conversion is so complex and takes so much time.
#4 by Vadim P. on May 7, 2008 - 7:02 am
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I tried upgrading my 1.5 OSE (from repositories) to that one but it failed, and didn’t even give me a reason.
But I did read that you’re supposed to discard all snapshots later on… I’ll give that a try.
#5 by John "sparrow cock" Sharp on May 7, 2008 - 2:02 pm
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Were no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do i
A full commitments what Im thinking of
You wouldnt get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how Im feeling
Gotta make you understand
* never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
Weve know each other for so long
Your hearts been aching
But youre too shy to say it
Inside we both know whats been going on
We know the game and were gonna play it
And if you ask me how Im feeling
Dont tell me youre too blind to see
(* repeat)
Give you up. give you up
Give you up, give you up
Never gonna give
Never gonna give, give you up
Never gonna give
Never gonna give, five you up
I just wanna tell you how Im feeling
Gotta make you understand
#6 by Chris on May 7, 2008 - 4:09 pm
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Scott Wegner: Neither SP3 nor VB 1.6 gave me problems – everything still works.
#7 by wannes on May 8, 2008 - 9:48 am
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Works perfect.
I do have an uknown PCI-device in XP-SP3-guest. Any ideas? (might be the activated SATA-controller)
#8 by Gábor Farkas on May 12, 2008 - 2:02 pm
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yes, Virtualbox is very nice, but unfortunately it cannot do 64bit guests. for that you still need vmware