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Does VirtualBox VM Have Much A Future Left?
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Last edited by ultimA; 02 February 2015, 06:49 AM.
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Originally posted by GreatEmerald View PostWhat is VirtualBox missing, exactly? Aside from VGA passthrough, I suppose; but then it's becoming less and less needed, given the advances in Wine and a wider variety of native games.
They also added code to support certificates in MSWindows, but they failed to make it an option that could be SHUT OFF in case it conflicted with security code already on the system. All the vbox people do is whine that you need to remove the other offending code (as if you could on a work machine) rather than fixing it on their end (it has a serious conflict with Symantec software).
I'd think getting outside developers writing 3rd-party extension packs would be a great benefit to VBox over other virtualization options. The BSD, OS2/ecomstation, ReactOS, etc projects could make their OSes work great in a VM.
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Originally posted by jelabarre59 View PostVirtualized USB drives (bootable).
It's done by creating a virtual disk attached to the drive, and then booting from it.
https://gist.github.com/mapio/8470611
Here's windows how-to:
http://www.howtogeek.com/187721/how-...in-virtualbox/
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Originally posted by duby229 View PostYes, sounds like the future is almost here. I've been waiting for the future since the past. I'm so excited!
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Originally posted by SystemCrasher View PostBasically I do not get who will develop VBox and why they will do it.
This indicates to me that virtualbox fills a significant need and it's likely somebody will be motivated to maintain it. I do wish there were still a qemu windows port though.
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Originally Posted by ormaaj
To my knowledge Virtualbox is the only maintained, reasonably simple to use, free virtual machine of its kind for Windows. The unofficial windows builds of qemu have been stagnant for years so it's probably no longer viable.
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Originally posted by Mandrake View PostQemu has unofficial windows builds from last month. VMware Player is free and not reasonably more difficult than Virtualbox to use.
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