<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>happymellon</author><text>Oh I remember about 10 years ago doing the migration from Oracle JVM to OpenJDK. I think it would have been around the Java 6 period, but there were all sorts of small things that I didn&amp;#x27;t think would be an issue that ended up cutting us.&lt;p&gt;The two main ones were a font, which I don&amp;#x27;t remember exactly which or why but I think it was to generate PDFs and it came bundled with the Oracle JVM so the PDF library defaulted to it. For Open JDK there was an extra setup step to install a RedHat font, but it was confusing when a pdf comes out garbled because you switched your JVM. But I could be mixing up my issues.&lt;p&gt;I think the other was built in certificates, but it was too long ago now.&lt;p&gt;Having a fun time at the moment with Java 11 to 17. The application has extensive Lombok, so nothing quite works the same. I&amp;#x27;ve had less pain migrating from Python 2 to 3.</text></comment>