VirtualBox 3.0 Released!

Conradl said:
While thin clients will have to become more powerful, the reality is that 15 years or so after the creation of the first dedicated 3D display card; business has still not built a strong business case for 3D applications. There simply is no need for main stream 3D SAP/outlook for example.... So old, dumb, thin clients have their place.

For an interesting look at where the technology is heading, check out http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1685500
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Yeah, low performance dumb terminals would probably be best suited for the traditional TS environment while higher specked machines would be needed for the VDI.
 
Installed it and it is really cool software. The problem is that mine is really SLOW (XP Host), and has several things that prevent me from moving away from Workstation:

1. It appears that there is no way to convert a dynamically sized disk to a fixed size.
2. There is no way to create a clone from a snap? Or to create any clone for that matter.
3. Vmware allows you to create Virtual networks with various line speeds, anybody know of a tool that I can use to do this. Something like Shunra: http://www.shunra.com/ve-unique-features.php?keyword=Shunra VE Features, but free, and only basic functions.
4. Performance. Without the optimised drivers this system is SLOW, XP install took for EVER! Even with the drivers it is SLOW; not sure if this is an 0.0 problem, but Workstation is way quicker....

Were it not for the speeed, it would probably be the best free host based VM software; better than VMWare server and MS Virtual PC - but still not quite up VM Workstation standards.
 
Ok. Been looking at the DirectX stuff with an ancient game called Kyodai MahJong. My missus loves it, and it's all I need to get working properly under Linux somehow to move her off windows. The older versions don't work with Vbox3's DirectX, but the Kyodai 2006 works really nicely. So now I have to convince her that Kyodai 2006 is better than Kyodai 15.42 :)
 
OK... I gave 3.0 another shot and shared folders works ok now... but copy and paste is broken with XP and I'm not the only one who has this problem...
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19350

Edit:
Ok found a temporary workaround, disable the shared clipboard setting, bidirectional needs to be fixed.

Edit2:
Shared folder bug reared it's ugly head again but the older guest additions sorted it out for now.
 
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Finally getting around to installing this.
I love how if you move your mouse over the 'options' it tells you what 'this' or 'that' does.
Very nice! :)
 
Everybody elses speed if fine then? Mine is still crap, XP guest in XP host; Workstation works 100%....
 
XP guest with linux host runs as good as native for me, if not faster... XP boots in seconds.
 
Aqua_lung said:
XP guest with linux host runs as good as native for me, if not faster... XP boots in seconds.
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Ditto. What I normally do is to save the machine state when I close VBox. That means when I restart it, it starts with all the apps that were running, active again. Makes a huge difference when using an app like DPP which has to rebuild its thumbnails each time it starts.

@lung: does using an older guest additions fix the ctrl-c, ctrl-v issue, or is it a problem with vbox itself?
 
BigAl-sa said:
@lung: does using an older guest additions fix the ctrl-c, ctrl-v issue, or is it a problem with vbox itself?
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It is VBox3 shared clipboard itself, I posted the solution earlier... change the settings from "host to guest" or "disabled" for the shared clipboard.
 
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I've just started using Version 3 now after the 2.x branch. So far it seems okayish, but I haven't been able to figure out how to install the guest additions into Mandriva 2009.1, as it seems that system installs the additions that are included in the OS itself when it picks up that it's running in a VM. It's a bit out of date I think though.

Otherwise not bad, looking forward to the point releases that will clean up some bugs.
 
Asha'man X said:
I've just started using Version 3 now after the 2.x branch. So far it seems okayish, but I haven't been able to figure out how to install the guest additions into Mandriva 2009.1, as it seems that system installs the additions that are included in the OS itself when it picks up that it's running in a VM. It's a bit out of date I think though.

Otherwise not bad, looking forward to the point releases that will clean up some bugs.
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Nice :) I also plan to move over to 3 soon.

Does you existing virtual machines work in 3?
 
nic777 said:
Nice :) I also plan to move over to 3 soon.

Does you existing virtual machines work in 3?
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My existing VM's that were set up pre version 3 worked no problem. 3 seems good so far except that it keeps asking for registration when it starts up, which is rather annoying.
 
AcidRaZor said:
No cause the VMWare thing wants to clone everything so I need like a 155gb hard drive just for a 40gig clone and I didn't want to sit there for 4694 hours
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A clean image install is better anyway, less troubleshooting to do.
 
AcidRaZor said:
No cause the VMWare thing wants to clone everything so I need like a 155gb hard drive just for a 40gig clone and I didn't want to sit there for 4694 hours
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How big is your system partition? You should be able to just clone the partition to a new vdisk and convert it??
 
I'm busy playing around with seamless mode - it's quite fun having the win stuff looking as though they are linux apps rather than win apps running in a Vbox window
 
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