Nice new features [LWN.net]

Nice new features

Posted Dec 3, 2009 14:53 UTC (Thu) by dmaxwell (guest, #14010)
In reply to: Nice new features by ldarby
Parent article: VirtualBox 3.1 released

VMs can be run without using the VirtualBox frontend and they can be run without the end-user UI so those messages won't come up.

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#vboxhead...

You can also start machines using only an SDL window locally which again facilitates usage where UI dialogs get in the way. Additionally the frontend can be told not to check for updates.

As usual all this information is available in the manual.

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Nice new features

Posted Dec 3, 2009 19:22 UTC (Thu) by ldarby (subscriber, #41318) [Link]

Thanks, I'll RTFM next time, but I still think modal dailogs in general are a broken concept.