 | Oct 29 2009 |
SURFSPIRIT Ya This Apps is Great, But Has a Huge Fail! Don't Drag and Drop between the Guest OS and the native one!!!!!!
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| Oct 31 2009 |
SCOTTISHWILDCAT Hardly a "huge fail", I've been using VirtualBox for years and never missed this feature.
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 | Sep 27 2009 |
MAC4DREW VirtualBox is great. I needed a program that would let me virtualize Windows, so I could run an EXE every now and then. I was tired of installing a trial of Parallels or VMware just to see it expire after a few weeks. And I didn't want to pay for what was entirely a matter of convenience, seeing as how my Mac is perfectly capable of booting Windows on its own. In steps VirtualBox. I installed Windows XP Service Pack 2 in a virtual machine a few weeks ago, and it's been working flawlessly ever since. All the standard features you'd expect from a Virtual Machine are there, basic configuration is easy, and the thing is rock-solid. Perhaps the configuration of the more advanced features could be a little easier, but the documentation for everything is pretty great. If you know what you're doing, you'll be able to get Shared Folders, USB Device Filtering, and loads of other stuff running with just a few clicks. If you need these advanced features, but you're not super computer-savvy, it may be best to use Parallels or VMware instead. But for everyone else who knows what they're doing, save your $60 and go with VirtualBox.
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| Jul 20 2009 |
TECHGEEK The best virtualization software have ever had!!!!!!! THE PART WHICH I LIKE THE MOST:- I COULD PRACTICALLY INSTALL ANY OS INTO THE VIRTUAL DRIVE!!!! This is I think the best feature I could ever had!!!! I have installed Xubuntu 9.04 into a 8 GB Virtual Drive and I must say it is great! It was for the first time I was installing an OS myself! And when in My Own Computer(The Hos) the net was on I could also access net in Xubuntu 9.04(The Guest)!!!! So these things make this a superb program if you want to test several Operating Systems!!!!!
(Version 3.0.2) | |
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| Aug 5 2009 |
E_COMMERCE Calm down there. Isn't the point of ANY virtualization software to allow you to install any x86 OS into a virtual drive? Nothing to see here, move along (to vmWare).
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| Aug 6 2009 |
ILGAZ Mac users who were running PowerPC/68K have never seen Virtual Machines like x86 users. All they had was MS infested (later) Virtual PC which was horribly slow because it was emulating a CPU. So, be a little understanding when one is impressed by a hypervisor based virtual machine. Not everyone around are switchers you know.
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| Nov 17 2009 |
E_COMMERCE I would expect anyone looking at this to be at least passingly familiar with similar products (VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop). Switcher? I've been on a Mac since '86.
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| Jul 12 2009 |
PEDRO FARDILHA If, like me, you use VirtualBox to run Linux or BSD machines you should be aware of a probleml with this 3.0.x series and the guest additions. IF you have 3D on or you gave more than 64 Mb or ram to the graphic card the GUI will not boot properly. I've seen this happening with different guest OSs, namely Ubuntu 9.04 (both normal and the new Netbook Remix), CentOS, Debian, etc.
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 | Jul 1 2009 |
WIZZARD1 The one good file that I did manage to download now works. I have to run the uninstall twice with a reboot in between. I think the uninstall also leaves files behind that don't work with 3.0 as well. As well, it does not install well upgrading 2.2.4. Since the dev does not use standard file locations and 'fixes' some file locations it is probably good to run the uninstall twice with a reboot. This however does not explain the 400 bad request at 98.53% when attempting to download from their site. Don't think it is an overload situation but a server reboot might clear the issue.
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| Jul 1 2009 |
WIZZARD1 Someone needs to contact whoever posts for download at VirtualBox/Sun. I have been trying to download 3.0 since it was released. Either it downloads and the app will not be start (bounces once) or it will not finish a download - gets to 98.53% and then hits 400 bad requests. I have tried to get ahold of them to make them aware but so far have been unsuccesful. There is nothing wrong with my connection at all as I have no issues downloading anything else including stuff from Sun and also much larger files. There is nothing blocking this. Please correct and repost a good build or fix your download servers.
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| Jun 30 2009 |
E_COMMERCE Still throwing files all over the disk when it has no business doing so. - "/Library/Extensions" is not a standard location (but at least it's not in /System). - StartupItems have been deprecated for over four years. - Mixing in VirtualBox items in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin is annoying. All of this makes it hard to remove, hard to migrate to a new system, and hard to backup (it you're not running Time Machine). What's annoying is that none of this is necessary - kernel extensions can be dynamically loaded from inside the application bundle, the StartupItem can be changed to a launchd agent and loaded dynamically, and the command line utilities are optional (and could be installed by the app on first run if requested). All this detrius is unnecessary and sloppy.
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| Jun 30 2009 |
E_COMMERCE Heh, even worse - it hardcodes the path to the application in the StartupItem - so you can't move it elsewhere without rewriting a root-owned bash script. What utterly horrid design.
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| Jun 30 2009 |
NEONBLUE2 I haven't installed it yet but can you move the files and put aliases in their place? You could move everything into the application bundle.
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| Jul 1 2009 |
STAR-AFFINITY Maybe contact the ones working on VirtualBox and ask what they're doing? :) Here perhaps? http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
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| Jul 1 2009 |
E_COMMERCE Just a follow-on - the application doesn't function at all if you move it out of it's default spot at /Applications. Refuses to launch - tiny blip on the Dock and vanishes. As for posting on mailing lists - do you really think that would do any good whatsoever? When I see a company that doesn't get it as badly as this, I've found they're not going to have an epiphany and suddenly understand why this stuff is important just because I post back and forth on a mailing list. It just wastes everyone's time. No, they can go their way and screw up, and I'll continue on mine and stick with VMware Fusion (a lovely native Mac product from a company that had no Mac experience whatsoever beforehand, and did an absolutely smash-up job).
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| Oct 6 2009 |
SCOTTISHWILDCAT FWIW, not being able to move the application out of /Applications is a known issue, which has been discussed at length in their public bug tracker.
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| Jun 8 2009 |
BCWINTERS I needed to do some work on a Windows-only database, and decided to give VirtualBox a try before shelling out for Fusion. And boy am I glad I did. This program has a surprisingly terrific level of polish and excellent (if somewhat techy) documentation. While the UI isn't truly native it's very intuitive and quite nicely finished, and anyway you only touch the UI for a little while when setting up a new guest OS. I had XP and my development tools installed in less time than it would have taken on a real PC (thanks to disk images instead of CDs!), and only needed to tweak one setting in the prefs to get access to my office's PPTP VPN--I think it was switching the "Attached To" setting to "Bridged" instead of "NAT," IIRC. From there on out, it was smooth, speedy sailing. I love you, VirtualBox.
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| May 30 2009 |
PISSNAROUND 3d acceleration seems to be problematic for all guests.
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| May 29 2009 |
UNXADM Frequent updates and stability make this a great free alternative to Parallels. They can't even get an update out that supports Ubuntu 9.04. Virtualbox has had already 2 updates since Ubuntu 9.04 came out. Highly recommend it.
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| May 27 2009 |
ONE78MAN Do you need to execute other OS inside your Mac? this is a good solution, i really love it. Of course you will not be able to run heavy software (video games for example) but for test and simple software (browser internet, specific/old application) it's a perfect solution.
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| Apr 28 2009 |
PCHARLES67 Once I figured out how to get the VMWare drive opened in VirtualBox I then had to figure out what network setting to use because the defaults did not work on my MacBook. After about an hour or so of messing with this, Windows told me that the activated virtual machine was nolonger activated and I needed a new serial. Same for Office and a couple of other activated applications, so back to VMWare, which is still a lot more polished. Good for free though, particularly if you are starting from scratch. VMware was less of a headache to get running on my machine and has not presented activation problems when upgrading. I was running Parallels on my iMac and had problems with activation when trying to upgrade from 3 to 4, so moved to VMWare and have been much happier.
(Version 2.2.2) | |
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| Apr 28 2009 |
FRIEDDYLAN The Windows activation requirement is normal, even under VMWare and Parallels. I can only suspect that Office (being an MS product) obeys the same laws of activation but I may be wrong.
(Version 2.2.2) | |
| Apr 28 2009 |
PCHARLES67 Not entirely true. When I moved my virtual machine from Parallels 3 on the iMac to VMWare 1 on the Macbook I was not asked to reactivate, nor was I asked to reactivate when upgrading VMWare to version 2. However, when I tried to upgrade the Parallels 3 virtual machine to Parallels 4, I was asked to reactivate, similarly when I tried the VMWare 2 machine with Parallels 4, I was asked to reactivate.
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| Apr 30 2009 |
NEONBLUE2 The reactivation is due to some sort of major virtual hardware shift in the virtualised environments. The same can happen in reality if you ever make too many changes to the hardware, which Windows interprets as a different computer that it's been installed on.
(Version 2.2.2) | |
| Apr 19 2009 |
IMINI Very interesting, fast, ahead of the competition in some areas (compiz in Linux kind of works). Behind in some others (lack od DriectX). But also very unstable and unreliable - hangs, kernel panics, VM sudden exits, no pointer in compiz, graphics refresh problems, etc. So far staying with VMWare witch is is visibly slower, but rock solid. But I will try new VirtualBox versions and observe the progress.
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| Apr 11 2009 |
DENDE O As a very early adopter of virtualization in the corporate world (running Vmware's Virtual Infrastructure product) and being very impressed by it, I never bothered to really try Parallels, I went straight for VMware Fusion on my late 2007 MBP, it ran great with no problems, and I loved it. On my early 2009 MBP with 4Gb and a speedy 7200 rpm drive Fusion still ran great. However, Im in the Technology R&D profession, and I find the best way to evaluate any product it to use it in your day to day life, and thats what I did when I tried Virtual Box. I made a copy of my VMware Fusion's vmdk and converted my windows XP VM to virtualbox and ran it for a number of weeks. The speed difference between virutalbox and fusion was immediately clear. Virtualbox ran circles around Fusion in performance. Fusion was always a very stabled product and so is virtualbox, (though in some early iderations of vb things werent quite as stabled as they are now), I am also amazed how much lighter the vb footprint is on my system. When I ran fusion, I would only start fusion up when I wanted to exclusively use windowsXP because I knew all my other mac sessions would perform poorly...and I can just about forget about launching photoshop and bridge together. With Virtualbox, I start windows and leave it running in a different space (on leopard) and sometimes forget its running. When I close the cover of my mpb, virtualbox automatically sleep the vm and wake it back up when I open the lid. I am still a very big advocate for VMware in the corporate world, but for all my home users there is no better virtualization product than Virtualbox
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| Apr 11 2009 |
DENDE O As a very early adopter of virtualization in the corporate world (running Vmware's Virtual Infrastructure product) and being very impressed by it, I never bothered to really try Parallels, I went straight for VMware Fusion on my late 2007 MBP, it ran great with no problems, and I loved it. On my early 2009 MBP with 4Gb and a speedy 7200 rpm drive Fusion still ran great. However, Im in the Technology R&D profession, and I find the best way to evaluate any product it to use it in your day to day life, and thats what I did when I tried Virtual Box. I made a copy of my VMware Fusion's vmdk and converted my windows XP VM to virtualbox and ran it for a number of weeks. The speed difference between virutalbox and fusion was immediately clear. Virtualbox ran circles around Fusion in performance. Fusion was always a very stabled product and so is virtualbox, (though in some early iderations of vb things werent quite as stabled as they are now), I am also amazed how much lighter the vb footprint is on my system. When I ran fusion, I would only start fusion up when I wanted to exclusively use windowsXP because I knew all my other mac sessions would perform poorly...and I can just about forget about launching photoshop and bridge together. With Virtualbox, I start windows and leave it running in a different space (on leopard) and sometimes forget its running. When I close the cover of my mpb, virtualbox automatically sleep the vm and wake it back up when I open the lid. I am still a very big advocate for VMware in the corporate world, but for all my home users there is no better virtualization product than Virtualbox
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| Jan 22 2009 |
ROBACKJA Occasionally need to check how badly IE6/7/8 renders any websites, VirtualBox + XP and Vista Business installed with ease. (One exception with 2.1.0, the 2nd half of Vista's installation did not like VT-x enabled. Leaving it disabled, it installed fine, and seems to run without issue with it enabled)
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| Dec 17 2008 |
ANDY HEWITT I occasionally need to run MS Office in Windows, and test some sites in IE7. Setting up a BootCamp partition, and all the bother of swapping OS just wasn't worthwhile. I also cannot justify spending extra on VMWare or Parallels. I did run the Demo of both, or at least attempt to! Parallels wouldn't successfully install at all, so I deleted it. VMWare didn't offer me anything more than VirtualBox, for my needs. I've now got VirtualBox running XP SP3, and Ubuntu 8.04. MS Office 2007 runs perfectly, and works just as well as the real PC I have here too. So far, I've less app crashes with VirtualBox than the PC. Seamless mode is really nice, and fullscreen mode is superb - the speed is very good. Don't expect games to run well though, but then none of the VM software do well at that. If you have modest VM needs, this works well enough to be productive with.
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| Oct 25 2008 |
IGAUCHO Still can't get this thing to run 64-bit OSes on a Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. I tried to install FreeBSD 64-bit with no success.
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| Oct 25 2008 |
PAULNOJUSTPAUL I'm hanging out for this too, unfortunately it doesn't look like it's there yet. From the FAQ: Although the manual claims 64-bit support for VirtualBox 2.0.0 this feature is not yet available for Mac OS X hosts. Nothing I could see in the change log suggests that's changed in later versions either. Still, for 32 bit guests it easily does everything I need.
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| Jan 22 2009 |
SCOTTISHWILDCAT According to the manual: "Starting with Version 2.1, you can even run 64-bit guests on a 32-bit host operating system, so long as you have sufficient hardware. "
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| Oct 24 2008 |
JAMUS If you are thinking about VMWare or Parallels, try this first. It is free, so if it does not work out, you are not out any cash. As long as you do not have a demanding Windows environment, you should be good to go with VirtualBox. It does not have some of the cool extras of the other two, but for free, it can't be beat.
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| Oct 18 2008 |
LAINSNAVI I couldn't believe it when I found this thing. I don't need to do anything really demanding in a Windows environment, so I never wanted to pay for virtualization software. I would just boot up Boot Camp whenever necessary. This took away almost every reason for me to use Boot Camp. It'll run Windows XP and 2000 extremely well. I love the seamless mode too. I've had problems connecting a few USB devices to it, but that's about it. I highly recommend this app!
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| Oct 13 2008 |
PAULNOJUSTPAUL What Pietro said! I use XP very occasionally but frequently fire up throwaway redshirt[1] boxes to test different Linux distros. VirtualBox easily covers my needs. Also very impressed with the greatly increased network functionality in the latest release. [1] - Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, and Ensign Gomez all beam down to a planet. Who doesn't make it back?
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| Sep 17 2008 |
PIETRO CRISTOFOLI Fast, easy to use, well supported, multiplatform. If you don't need the tight integration and the DX9 support of Parallels and VMWare, this is a great choice.
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| Sep 13 2008 |
PIRX A pity that this has been compiled only for the Intel Macs, so I can't use on my PowerBook G4. I use VirtualBox for Ubuntu on an IBM ThinkPad and run Windows from inside VirtualBox. Absolutely awesome, fantastic, outstanding.
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| Sep 13 2008 |
NEONBLUE2 Unfortunately you can't really compile a CPU virtualiser for another platform without including emulation code, which negates the point of a virtualiser in the first place. But I know many feel your pain. The best free CPU emulator is Q and it's been a while.
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| Sep 10 2008 |
EGN Not working for me. Tried to install some of the OSs that work great with VMWare on my Mac and which I use on a regular basis (FreeBSD, Arch Linux, WinXP, BeOS/Haiku, OpenBSD). Even tried with Solaris, Open Solaris, etc. to no avail Either, they did not run or did not finish installing. No error message, no warning pop-ups, nothing. Just plain died. Perhaps a future release will work better. VMWare does the job perfectly for me now.
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| Sep 12 2008 |
IGAUCHO I also have not been able to get FreeBSD 7.0 to finish installing. I get an error that it cannot finish writing to the disk as it's unloading the OS. Kubuntu Linux works great
I'm hoping that these issues are being worked on. VirtualBox is a nice concept that's backed by a good company.
(Version 2.0.2) | |
| Sep 4 2008 |
CHRISTOPHE DUCOMMUN I'm really happy to see a free Virtualisation software which is correctly working. Thanks SUN !
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| Sep 4 2008 |
E_COMMERCE "Native" interface is anything but. It's still using QT, and it shows. Even besides that, a lot of the little details are not up to Mac interface standards for fit and finish. A beta I'd cut it slack, but not as a final 2.0. Oh, and it doesn't help that moving the application anywhere but "/Applications" results in it failing to launch completely.
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| Sep 4 2008 |
E_COMMERCE Yup, QT libraries in the application bundle, and the following message spewed to the log: "9/4/08 11:26:22 AM [0x0-0x6ec6ec].org.virtualbox.app.VirtualBoxVM[12833] com.apple.console VirtualBox: supR3HardenedVerifyDir: Failed to open "/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS": No such file or directory (2) " Whatever "supR3HardenedVerifyDir" is doing, it needs to loosen up.
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| Sep 4 2008 |
SCOTTISHWILDCAT Certainly some nice enhancements in 2.0, for Mac users... the native interface isn't much to write home about, but full screen mode works a lot better (especially with Spaces/Expose), and seamless mode now works properly on secondary displays. Not being limited to NAT networking any more is cool, too..
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| Aug 17 2008 |
EASER For those having problems with the small screen resolution, I found a solution that's fairly simply. (I've only done this with Windows XP.) Boot up Windows. Then size the VirtualBox window to whatever you prefer for your Windows size. Then open a document in Windows. (I opened a browser window.) Then click on the resize button. The overall Windows program will then resize itself to fit within the VirtualBox size you had set. (I only had to click the resize button once. I've read that you might have to do it a few times. Also, although you supposedly have to do this every time you reboot, I found that it automatically resized after Windows had finished booting.)
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 | Mar 22 2009 |
MARVF It is very simple to resize the VirtualBox window. You just have to do it in Windows, not in Mac OS. Start, Control Panel, Appearances and Themes, Change the Screen Resolution. Voila! VirtualBox will remember the resolution next time you boot it up. | |
| Aug 8 2008 |
ALGOS Why does this version save its log files in the application folder? I just noticed a ton of log files just sitting there... I have never seen this in previous releases.
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| Aug 1 2008 |
KIDDAILEY Hmmm... I can't download this as it keeps telling me I've exceeded my limit -- though I've never downloaded it before. Anyone else have any luck?
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| Aug 1 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN I downloaded it this morning before posting it to MacUpdate, so it *was* available... and I'm now getting the same message you got (limit exceeded, etc.) so I am thinking it is a glitch on Sun's end of things.
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| Aug 1 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Ok, I got it to download once again. I first deleted all the cookies I have with sun.com in their name. Then I went back to this page and went from there and got it to download.
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| Aug 11 2008 |
KIDDAILEY Thanks. Now working for me as well.
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| Jun 9 2008 |
IFORGOT While this release has a few problems like clipboard sharing on an Ubuntu guest, it works much more smoothly than Fusion or Parallels, particularly when starting and suspending the VM. It doesn't cause the host to stutter when starting or stopping VMs, and resumes a VM much more quickly than Parallels or Fusion. It also offers multiple snapshots. And it's open source (mostly)!
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| Jun 6 2008 |
E_COMMERCE This will certainly improve, but right now the list of limitations is quite extensive: No support for Host Interface Networking or Internal Networking (NAT is slower than an adapter configured for host interface networking) No support for audio input No support for VT-x/AMD-V No support for raw disk access No ACPI information (battery status, power source) is reported to the guest And most importantly, there is no way to set a resolution beyond 800x600!
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| Jun 6 2008 |
SCOTTISHWILDCAT Can't you set the resolution to whatever you like just by making the guest window bigger? I have a Solaris VM quite happily occupying all of my 1920x1200 24" monitor here in 1.6.2...
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| Sep 13 2008 |
PMULLINS11 You might want to increase the video RAM of your guest OS. I switched mine from 8 MB to 32 MB and suddenly I can change my resolution to 1440 x 829.
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| Jun 6 2008 |
MACMANUX Great virtualization software, and totally FREE! Not quite as feature rich as Parallels or Fusion, but subjectively faster that Parallels, and with most features that average users need like the seemless mode to mix Mac and Windows applications, folder sharing, networking, USB device support and the ability to save the last state for faster start-up. Not everything in the interface is intuitive, and for some things like how to access shared folders in the guest OS one needs to ask the help function. But then, it's free, fast and for me also stable. A great way to run Windows on a Mac for occasional use.
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| May 7 2008 |
PIETRO CRISTOFOLI Fantastic software ... easy to use, fast and pretty versatile. If you don't need a VM with direct access to the GPU and can live without drag&drop between the host and the guest OSes, this is the best option.
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| May 3 2008 |
WILPON Is anyone else having problems downloading this? I went to the Sun download site, downloaded the .dmg, which adds a .bz2 extension, removed the extension, mounted the .dmg, but installation failed on installed the kext file. Anyone know of an alternate download site?
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| May 6 2008 |
CHARLESPICKRELL It sounds like you are downloading the sourcecode, or downloading for the incorrect platform. Go to the URL below and choose the first download link. On the net page Choose Mac OS X as the platform. http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp
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| May 3 2008 |
STEVEN JAY COHEN I've been installing, playing with, and waiting on VirtualBox for a while. With version 1.6, it's come of age! Absolutely gorgeous! Bravo!
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| May 2 2008 |
ALESSANDRO C. Great app, but i have a problem... Why I can't change guest resolution? Max is 800x600 :( I tried to reconfigure xserver but nothing...
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| May 3 2008 |
MATTEO.SERAFIN If you want to change the resolution: VirtualBox vm -> Macchina -> Adatta la dimensione della finestra and Ridemensiona automaticamente la finestra Guest. I have the italian version. You must click on the menu Machine of VirtualBox VM at the voice n#3 and n#4
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| Feb 12 2008 |
M.RIECHERT The new free VirtualBox Version.is excellent.I installed Windows XP Service Pack2 on it. Installation was easy and fast.I own Parallells and VMware Fusion too, which cost both about 80 dollars. Compared to Parallels and VMware Fusion booting with VirtualBox is faster. Features are similar to Parallels and Fusion. Performance is excellent. Benchmarking with Geekbench gained an overall value of 5400. To get this value, you must have opened the free utility Crystal CPUID as overclocking tool. Stability and speed of WindowsXP were also excellent.For anybody, who is not willing to pay for Parallels and VMware Fusion VirtualBox is the first choice without any disadvantages. Compliments to the developers! Mac Mini Core 2 Duo (Merom) with 2,16 Ghz, 2GB Ram and Mac OS X 10.4.11.
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| Oct 31 2007 |
KIBA That's just cool! Works smooth, really fast and it's free!
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| Sep 23 2007 |
ZWEI Definitely not as polished as Parallels, but it's getting better and the price is unbeatable. I've only had one problem with it and that was trying to watch a movie via Netflix's "Watch Now" feature. It works under the first beta, but if you install the tools with the second beta it stops working.
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| Aug 24 2007 |
It has to be mounted from the VB menu. It's hidden in the package contents.
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| Aug 2 2007 |
SANTAB Very nice indeed. But remember only the Personal Edition is free and not open. The source that is open is not the whole thing. Other than that VB is very cool and speedy.
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| May 3 2007 |
MKLLOW This is excellent. It supports moint pointer integration under linux!! (test with Ubuntu7.04 as guest OS)
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| Apr 25 2007 |
PMANNA Being a beta release, this is surprisingly stable: some features aren't implemented (like audio), some are rough (network adapters aren't that reliable), other annoying quirks couldn't honestly been blamed on the emulation (Ubuntu couldn't recognize my MBP keyboard, while XP worked properly). Emulation speed is more than enough for regular, office use: no 3D, but it boots and runs much faster than a real Pentium 4 PC! In all, an excellent piece of software, and free for personal use (if they maintain the policy they have on other platforms): hopefully they'll implement what's missing, I'll definitely keep an eye on them!
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