Anyone had any experience with VirtualBox
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Good, bad, ugly??? I've taken a job where I will be doing C++ 6.0 development and was wanting to put it on a virtual machine. Any insight, gotchas or warnings? Thanks, Mike
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I find it very good, stable and fast. It also uses hardware virtualization extensions if your CPU supports them. The only feature I miss compared to VPC is file drag and drop between host and guest. You have to use shared folders for that.
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Good, bad, ugly??? I've taken a job where I will be doing C++ 6.0 development and was wanting to put it on a virtual machine. Any insight, gotchas or warnings? Thanks, Mike
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
Just started using it. Good experiences so far, given it's my first experience of VMs. The only wrinkle I've found is that it wouldn't install a checked build of Windows 2000 - the VM (not VirtualBox) would crash on install. Of course, as I actually wanted the release of Windows 2000, that wasn't too much of a problem once I realised I was trying to install a checked build... Anyway - I've set up Vista, Win2K and Ubunto 8.04 VMs so far, with no other issues.
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I found that Virtual Box would run Ubuntu just fine when Virtual PC was unable to render the screen correctly. So I'm pretty positive about Virtual Box.
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Good, bad, ugly??? I've taken a job where I will be doing C++ 6.0 development and was wanting to put it on a virtual machine. Any insight, gotchas or warnings? Thanks, Mike
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
Does anyone have any performance benchmarks? My experience of Virtual PC (2004) is that it runs a CPU-bound application approximately 5 times slower than 'native mode', which is why I don't use it. Simple benchmarking program here: http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk/memtest.exe Many thanks.
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Good, bad, ugly??? I've taken a job where I will be doing C++ 6.0 development and was wanting to put it on a virtual machine. Any insight, gotchas or warnings? Thanks, Mike
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
I've been using Virtual Box and a number of the other similar tools for a while now: Parallels Workstation VMWare Virtual PC. One of the reasons that Virtual Box is better than Virtual PC, is that Virtual PC is based on a fork of Virtual Box (back when it was owned by Innotek), but Virtual Box has been actively developed a lot since. There are typical updates to VBox every couple of months. Of the 4 tools, I'd rate them as follows (in descending order): VMWare Virtual Box Parallels Workstation Virtual PC. The only things that I've had problems with are USB support (but that has improved significantly in the latest release (1.6.2)) and bridged networking which is useful for me when I want to setup a simulated network of Virtual machines to simulate our distributed systems. Parallels and VMWare make bridged networks like that trivial, whereas Virtual Box makes it hard if not impossible. However it's quite rare to need that functionality for most people! So in short, as free software, Virtual Box takes some beating, and as others have said, it's speed is excellent. Mike
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I've been using Virtual Box and a number of the other similar tools for a while now: Parallels Workstation VMWare Virtual PC. One of the reasons that Virtual Box is better than Virtual PC, is that Virtual PC is based on a fork of Virtual Box (back when it was owned by Innotek), but Virtual Box has been actively developed a lot since. There are typical updates to VBox every couple of months. Of the 4 tools, I'd rate them as follows (in descending order): VMWare Virtual Box Parallels Workstation Virtual PC. The only things that I've had problems with are USB support (but that has improved significantly in the latest release (1.6.2)) and bridged networking which is useful for me when I want to setup a simulated network of Virtual machines to simulate our distributed systems. Parallels and VMWare make bridged networks like that trivial, whereas Virtual Box makes it hard if not impossible. However it's quite rare to need that functionality for most people! So in short, as free software, Virtual Box takes some beating, and as others have said, it's speed is excellent. Mike
Mike
Mike Diack wrote:
The only things that I've had problems with are USB support
I read quite a few reviews before deciding on VirtualBox and that was the main gripe. I installed it last night and haven't done a lot with it yet, just set up OS and C++ 6.0 but am impressed with the product as a whole. Plan to do some serious playing this evening after I get off. Thanks, Mike
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Good, bad, ugly??? I've taken a job where I will be doing C++ 6.0 development and was wanting to put it on a virtual machine. Any insight, gotchas or warnings? Thanks, Mike
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
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Good, bad, ugly??? I've taken a job where I will be doing C++ 6.0 development and was wanting to put it on a virtual machine. Any insight, gotchas or warnings? Thanks, Mike
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
Hey, Mike. VirtualBox is definitely a winner. No problems setting up a couple of VMs for older OSs for testing and such. Runs Linux and Windows well (I have had SUSE, Win 2000, Win XP, Win 98 and Ubuntu guests). :) Flynn
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Good, bad, ugly??? I've taken a job where I will be doing C++ 6.0 development and was wanting to put it on a virtual machine. Any insight, gotchas or warnings? Thanks, Mike
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
Pretty good experience for certain development work. However some of the DOS stuff I do won't run at all with certain interrupts, simply crashes the NT/XP VirtualBox instance, so that kinda sucks :(
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Good, bad, ugly??? I've taken a job where I will be doing C++ 6.0 development and was wanting to put it on a virtual machine. Any insight, gotchas or warnings? Thanks, Mike
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Virtual Box works fine. USB Support is very nice but i use it because i can't use shared folder. i visited forum and blog but i don't know what is my mistake. See u Emi
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Good, bad, ugly??? I've taken a job where I will be doing C++ 6.0 development and was wanting to put it on a virtual machine. Any insight, gotchas or warnings? Thanks, Mike
Semper Fi http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[^] My Site
Ive been using VirtualBox for a while now with Ubuntu on a WinXP host, the only problem for me is the fullscreen mode...
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Ive been using VirtualBox for a while now with Ubuntu on a WinXP host, the only problem for me is the fullscreen mode...
Amro Khasawneh wrote:
the only problem for me is the fullscreen mode...
Yeah I can't set my to full mode either...I don't see the taskbar. But that is a minor problem! Thanks, Mike
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Hey, Mike. VirtualBox is definitely a winner. No problems setting up a couple of VMs for older OSs for testing and such. Runs Linux and Windows well (I have had SUSE, Win 2000, Win XP, Win 98 and Ubuntu guests). :) Flynn
Flynn,
Flynn Arrowstarr wrote:
VirtualBox is definitely a winner. No problems setting up a couple of VMs for older OSs for testing and such. Runs Linux and Windows well (I have had SUSE, Win 2000, Win XP, Win 98 and Ubuntu guests)
Thanks, good to know. I'm running XP but an older development system on it and so far so good. Mike
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I found that Virtual Box would run Ubuntu just fine when Virtual PC was unable to render the screen correctly. So I'm pretty positive about Virtual Box.
“Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.” ~ God on phone with Microsoft Customer Support
Just for future reference, the reason that VirtualPC doesn't like Ubuntu is because Ubuntu defaults to 24-bit color, which VirtualPC doesn't support out of performance reasons. You can get Ubuntu to work by editing a configuration file at the comand prompt. For more information, there is an article on their forum about it.
