[Cialug] Virtualbox Newbie

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

I'm curious what issues you've seen when upgrading? I've used VirtualBox 
as my desktop virtualization through several upgrades without any real 
issues. I do occasionally use the command line tools, but primarily use 
the GUI. My 2 usage scenarios are running a Linux host with a Windows 
guest, and an OS X host with either a Linux or a Windows guest. I do use 
the non-free extensions that give better USB support and a few other 
features, and do upgrade the extensions shortly after any VirtualBox 
upgrade. Still... not had many real problems.

On 2013-05-17 at 12:27:55, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>The only issues we have had with VB are:
>
>1) It is a user oriented application, so any VMs are linked to the
>base user, whereas something like Xen is system oriented.
>
>2) When you want to upgrade anything, watch out! VB is pretty
>'fragile' when updating, especially if you use some of the other
>available tools like vboxtool (which gives you command line machine
>control).
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Daniel A. Ramaley
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