Talk:VirtualBox
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[edit] Wow
Good software... It's pretty fast too. Any words on official benchmarks? I tested QEMU + kqemu side by side with this, and it's quite capable... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mimithebrain (talk • contribs) 22:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC-7)
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- People are using it more now.
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- I've used VBox for a long time now.
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- I love this software! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.9.58 (talk) 14:48, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Some Inaccuracies
"VirtualBox has a rather unique approach to fix this conflict: It tricks the guest operating system to actually execute its ring-0 code in ring 1, which is normally unused on the Intel architecture."
Not exactly unique; that's how pretty much all x86 virtualisation solutions work. The caching of recompilations is, likewise, fairly standard. This is difficult to get right, since introspective or dynamic code can often go wrong (typically the re-compiled code is put in a segment that is marked as executable but not readable. Segmentation violations resulting from attempting to read it are trapped and the original code is substituted). David Chisnall 00:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Parallels
Parallels desktop for mac is the only program (of this type) I've used aside from VirtualBox. Virtual box beta for mac is almost the same as parallels was a few months ago (meaning, pretty much same features, same install wizard, same guest tools installation, with just a few differences). Are other virtualization software so similar to one another? Should this be noted in the article? 76.201.22.234 21:27, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] New version 1.5
Can someone update the article to talk about the new features? http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=1528 would be a good source, but since I'm not using v1.5, and I didn't write this article, I can't do a good job updating the article. I'm sure this article would benefit from a "new features in version 1.5" section, or updating the article in general, or something like that. Althepal 20:53, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Be bold --Treekids 16:46, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
- As there is an unfixed bug in version 1.5 preventing me from using version 1.5 on Windows, I can't do this yet. If someone who uses Linux or who can get it working on Windows is out there, they can be bold. Althepal 17:51, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
--OmegaElheats 14:23, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- I placed a screenshot of me running Guest OS Windows XP of VirtualBox 1.5 on Host OS Ubuntu 7.04 in Seamless Mode 'as a new feature'.
[edit] "open source" vs "free software"
as I understand it, the correct term for anything under the GPL is "free software" not merely "open source". If i'm correct about this, the article needs to be changed to reflect that --69.243.242.58 (talk) 16:41, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
