<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><item><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></item></parent_chain><comment><author>signal11</author><text>&amp;gt; the Windows 10 updater won&amp;#x27;t qualify the VM guest for the upgrade&lt;p&gt;I was able to get my VM to qualify. Make sure you have the required hotfixes, otherwise you will not qualify -- KB3035583 and KB2976978 for Win8.1, KB3035583 and KB2952664 for Win7 SP1.&lt;p&gt;Then reboot and run the batch file given here: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;superuser.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;922442&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;superuser.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;922442&lt;/a&gt;</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><item><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></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jokr004</author><text>I do this because my employer has some silly policies and it was the only way they would let my run Linux on my localhost.  Really I forget that I&amp;#x27;m in the VM.. RAM is a little scarce, but all in all it works surprisingly well.</text></comment>