<story><title>VirtualBox 5.0 officially released</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/entry/oracle_vm_virtualbox_5_07</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bane</author><text>As a fun experiment, I do my day-to-day computing entirely in a Virtualbox Windows VM guest that I&amp;#x27;ve given 2 cores, 150GB of storage and 4GB of RAM. I&amp;#x27;m about a year and a half into the experiment and still chugging along.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a surprisingly performant day-to-day system, which I can snapshot to try out things, move to other machines if I need to, make backups etc. About the only thing it doesn&amp;#x27;t do well is really CPU intensive or GPU intensive operations.&lt;p&gt;But it works fine for 2 monitors, web browsing, watching videos, etc.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s kind of surprising actually.&lt;p&gt;From time to time I&amp;#x27;ll also spin up some Linux VMs and do various dev activities in a real Linux, which I usually just background and ssh into from my Windows VM. It&amp;#x27;s kind of nice having a virtual rack of machines to monkey around on.&lt;p&gt;Less impressive has been trying to get Ubuntu to not feel terrible, but Centos works fine.&lt;p&gt;If I need better performance, I&amp;#x27;ll dive back to the host OS and do those things, but it&amp;#x27;s mostly just for gaming or music production.&lt;p&gt;Bonus, my host OS has stayed relatively free of junk and stays really snappy, even all this time later.&lt;p&gt;My only recent problem is that the Windows 10 updater won&amp;#x27;t qualify the VM guest for the upgrade. So I&amp;#x27;ll probably have to grab the ISO and try it that way.</text></comment>
<story><title>VirtualBox 5.0 officially released</title><url>https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/entry/oracle_vm_virtualbox_5_07</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>comex</author><text>One of the biggest features here, the virtual USB 3.0 controller, is closed source (as well as USB 2.0!).  See:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&amp;#x2F;manual&amp;#x2F;ch01.html#intro-installing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&amp;#x2F;manual&amp;#x2F;ch01.html#intro-installing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;While it&amp;#x27;s available for free, the license only allows personal and educational use.  Bleh.</text></comment>