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From: Andy Hewitt on 20 May 2010 04:03 I was taken by surprise with VirtualBox changing names recently, or at least the addition of 'Oracle' anyway. I've just been playing with the release of v3.2.0, and have also just upgraded my Ubuntu VM to 10.04. Another surprise there too, speed, wow! they seem to be getting something right there, I just opened OpenOffice as a test, and it pinged up far quicker than it does native in OSX. Likewise with my XP install, very snappy now, and much faster than my dedicated PC box is. Seamless mode still needs a little polishing, but it does at least now work in both XP and Ubuntu. Multiple screens also seems to work OK too, although I haven't tested it in Ubuntu yet. Quick question, I was thinking about upgrading my XP VM to Vista, but the virtual drive isn't big enough, says it needs a minimum of 15GB, and only has 12GB free. Anyone know if it's possible to increase the size of a virtual disk? I've scoured the manual, but can't see anything. The nearest I can find is that I may have to export and reimport to a new vdi. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: chris on 20 May 2010 04:09 On 20/05/10 09:03, Andy Hewitt wrote: > I was taken by surprise with VirtualBox changing names recently, or at > least the addition of 'Oracle' anyway. > > I've just been playing with the release of v3.2.0, and have also just > upgraded my Ubuntu VM to 10.04. Another surprise there too, speed, wow! > they seem to be getting something right there, I just opened OpenOffice > as a test, and it pinged up far quicker than it does native in OSX. Apparently, they've done some significant changes in IO speed and memory usage: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/19/oracle_virtualbox_3_2/ I was curious whether these would actually make an appreciable difference. Looks like they do :)
From: Andy Hewitt on 20 May 2010 04:18 chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 20/05/10 09:03, Andy Hewitt wrote: > > I was taken by surprise with VirtualBox changing names recently, or at > > least the addition of 'Oracle' anyway. > > > > I've just been playing with the release of v3.2.0, and have also just > > upgraded my Ubuntu VM to 10.04. Another surprise there too, speed, wow! > > they seem to be getting something right there, I just opened OpenOffice > > as a test, and it pinged up far quicker than it does native in OSX. > > Apparently, they've done some significant changes in IO speed and memory > usage: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/19/oracle_virtualbox_3_2/ > > I was curious whether these would actually make an appreciable > difference. Looks like they do :) It certainly seems noticeable here. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: T i m on 20 May 2010 04:18 On Thu, 20 May 2010 09:03:25 +0100, thewildrover(a)me.com (Andy Hewitt) wrote: >I've just been playing with the release of v3.2.0, and have also just >upgraded my Ubuntu VM to 10.04. Another surprise there too, speed, wow! >they seem to be getting something right there, I just opened OpenOffice >as a test, and it pinged up far quicker than it does native in OSX. Yup, I noticed similar last week on 10.04 and the beta of the latest VB. In fact I went back to the 9.10 install and the older VB just to make sure I wasn't imagining it. ;-) > >Likewise with my XP install, very snappy now, and much faster than my >dedicated PC box is. > >Seamless mode still needs a little polishing, but it does at least now >work in both XP and Ubuntu. What about USB device support. I have it in the 9.10 / older Sun VB but it wasn't in the Oracle beta I tried? Well it was there but it didn't work. >Multiple screens also seems to work OK too, >although I haven't tested it in Ubuntu yet. Not used that but good to know. The main thing I couldn't get to work on XPVM (and I think it's because the Ubuntu host couldn't see it) is our fairly new Fuji Z35 camera. Googling about it looks like it's (now) supported but getting that support looked like more lines in Terminal than I could be bothered to enter. I'll wait for it to come out as part of the std updates. ;-) Don't know the answer to your question btw but would be interested to find out. Cheers, T i m
From: Andy Hewitt on 20 May 2010 04:52
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2010 09:03:25 +0100, thewildrover(a)me.com (Andy Hewitt) > wrote: > > >Likewise with my XP install, very snappy now, and much faster than my > >dedicated PC box is. > > > >Seamless mode still needs a little polishing, but it does at least now > >work in both XP and Ubuntu. > > What about USB device support. I have it in the 9.10 / older Sun VB > but it wasn't in the Oracle beta I tried? Well it was there but it > didn't work. Not sure yet, haven't tried it. It's not something that's a life changer for me, I only use VMs for accessing weird files I get sent, and playing around a bit :-) USB may be next on the list. > >Multiple screens also seems to work OK too, > >although I haven't tested it in Ubuntu yet. > > Not used that but good to know. > > The main thing I couldn't get to work on XPVM (and I think it's > because the Ubuntu host couldn't see it) is our fairly new Fuji Z35 > camera. Googling about it looks like it's (now) supported but getting > that support looked like more lines in Terminal than I could be > bothered to enter. I'll wait for it to come out as part of the std > updates. ;-) > > Don't know the answer to your question btw but would be interested to > find out. Yeah, I could just start again with a fresh install, but I have been having bother activating my copy of MS Office now that the three activations have been used up. The real PC we have is now a little redundant, so I thought I'd clear that down and transfer Vista over to my VM as an upgrade. It's not important right now, but it'd be handy to do sometime (it's mainly because I get asked questions on how to do something, and most of those people are now using Vista). I wonder if it may be easiest to create a second vdi, and simply do a clone over to that? -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/> |