<story><title>VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20230723100307/https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>korginator</author><text>I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle.  VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use &amp;amp; evaluation license, and an enterprise license.  Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will.  If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they&amp;#x27;ve changed the license, you&amp;#x27;re out of luck.&lt;p&gt;Be specially careful when installing their extension pack, as it is an evaluation license.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve moved our development to KVM and Virtual Machine Manager on Linux [3] and UTM on Mac [4]. There are other options to run your VM, such as Multipass [5] or VirtualBuddy [6].&lt;p&gt;On a digressive topic - it was fun migrating our legacy application server stack from Oracle Java (old &amp;amp; poorly considered decision) to OpenJDK, thanks to their license [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Licensing_FAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Licensing_FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oracle.com&amp;#x2F;java&amp;#x2F;technologies&amp;#x2F;javase&amp;#x2F;jdk-faqs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oracle.com&amp;#x2F;java&amp;#x2F;technologies&amp;#x2F;javase&amp;#x2F;jdk-faqs.htm...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mac.getutm.app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mac.getutm.app&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;multipass.run&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;multipass.run&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;insidegui&amp;#x2F;VirtualBuddy&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;insidegui&amp;#x2F;VirtualBuddy&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkl</author><text>&amp;gt; Virtual Machine Manager&lt;p&gt;Do you mean Red Hat&amp;#x27;s Virtual Machine Manager, AKA virt-manager (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Virt-manager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Virt-manager&lt;/a&gt;), or Microsoft&amp;#x27;s Virtual Machine Manager (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;system-center&amp;#x2F;vmm&amp;#x2F;?view=sc-vmm-2022&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;system-center&amp;#x2F;vmm&amp;#x2F;?view=sc...&lt;/a&gt;), or Synology&amp;#x27;s Virtual Machine Manager (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.synology.com&amp;#x2F;en-global&amp;#x2F;dsm&amp;#x2F;feature&amp;#x2F;virtual_machine_manager&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.synology.com&amp;#x2F;en-global&amp;#x2F;dsm&amp;#x2F;feature&amp;#x2F;virtual_machi...&lt;/a&gt;)?  I&amp;#x27;m guessing the first one?&lt;p&gt;I use VirtualBox for trying things out or sandboxing, mainly because of the friendly GUI, but wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind switching to something as friendly that&amp;#x27;s not Oracle&amp;#x27;s.</text></comment>
<story><title>VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared</title><url>https://web.archive.org/web/20230723100307/https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>korginator</author><text>I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle.  VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use &amp;amp; evaluation license, and an enterprise license.  Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will.  If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they&amp;#x27;ve changed the license, you&amp;#x27;re out of luck.&lt;p&gt;Be specially careful when installing their extension pack, as it is an evaluation license.&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;ve moved our development to KVM and Virtual Machine Manager on Linux [3] and UTM on Mac [4]. There are other options to run your VM, such as Multipass [5] or VirtualBuddy [6].&lt;p&gt;On a digressive topic - it was fun migrating our legacy application server stack from Oracle Java (old &amp;amp; poorly considered decision) to OpenJDK, thanks to their license [2].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Licensing_FAQ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Licensing_FAQ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oracle.com&amp;#x2F;java&amp;#x2F;technologies&amp;#x2F;javase&amp;#x2F;jdk-faqs.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.oracle.com&amp;#x2F;java&amp;#x2F;technologies&amp;#x2F;javase&amp;#x2F;jdk-faqs.htm...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;kvm-hyphervisor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mac.getutm.app&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mac.getutm.app&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[5] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;multipass.run&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;multipass.run&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[6] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;insidegui&amp;#x2F;VirtualBuddy&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;insidegui&amp;#x2F;VirtualBuddy&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misterS</author><text>&amp;gt; Be specially careful when installing their extension pack, as it is an evaluation license.&lt;p&gt;Our company was targeted by Oracle Sales because they detected mere _downloads_ from our IP range. They couldn&amp;#x27;t prove any installations, but of course wanted the company to pay for commercial licenses.&lt;p&gt;Im not sure about the details, but in the end I think we bought a couple of licences &amp;amp; then blocked all URLs for the extension pack company-wide.</text></comment>