LiquidFoot » virtual box http://www.liquidfoot.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:56:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Virtualbox 2.0 http://www.liquidfoot.com/2008/09/11/virtualbox-20/ http://www.liquidfoot.com/2008/09/11/virtualbox-20/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:18:41 +0000 Wayne http://www.liquidfoot.com/?p=65 I saw this morning that Sun released VirtualBox 2.0 (it was released last Thursday, but had missed that). The big update (at least to me) is that it now supports 64-bit guests (on 64-bit hosts). I added the deb packages for my Ubuntu box and installed the virtualbox-2.0. The package installed properly, but the icon I had been using to launch the program went away and launching from the terminal also disappered.

The fix was pretty quick, but took a couple of minutes to locate. On top of installing the new package, you also need to run the vboxdrv setup to recompile the kernel module.

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

After you run this, everything runs wonderfly again :)

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I’ve got a Mac Pro on the desk next to me that we’ve been running Parallels on to run some of our Windows-only software (e.g. the client for our library catalog). Phil saw that there was support for Windows on OS X 10.5, so we threw Virtual Box on it to try it out. Here are my observations thus far running the software on Ubuntu and Leopard:

  1. Virtual Box seems to be a bit faster. I have no tests to back this up, it just seems faster.
  2. The VDIs are nice (here’s a longer list of VDIs)
  3. Permissions for the kernel driver can cause a small headache (be sure to add your user account to the vboxusers group).
  4. Virtual Box doesn’t require me to go get keys when I rebuild a computer and forget to write down the key :)

So far, I really am liking Virtual Box…

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