LWN: Comments on "VirtualBox 3.2 released"

VirtualBox 3.2 released

pabs — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:31:24 +0000

Still no USB support in the GPL edition :(

VirtualBox 3.2 released

Janne — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:19:49 +0000

Which is why you could use Virtualbox in a Mac to run virtualized MacOS.

VirtualBox 3.2 released

yokem_55 — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:18:37 +0000

Fortunately Mac hardware can run windows and Linux. So, if for some reason you want to, you can run MacOSX in VirtualBox on your shiny Mac Hardware while it is running another operating system, without violating the letter of the EULA. How long this will fly given the obvious problem of non-mac hardware running VirtualBox running OSX I don't know. But it will work for now.

VirtualBox 3.2 released

rahvin — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:00:12 +0000

They didn't enable hardware hacks, without approved mac hardware it won't run, it's in the release notes.

VirtualBox 3.2 released

zeekec — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:42:10 +0000

And when has that stopped people...

VirtualBox 3.2 released

xnox — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:35:54 +0000

I thought Mac OS X EULA prohibited running Mac OS X in VM or non-apple branded hardware?

VirtualBox 3.2 released

cesarb — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:02:20 +0000

As I read it, it is not that it is "now owned by Oracle", but that it has _changed its name_ (granted, what has changed seems to be only a longer version of the name which nobody actually seems to use).

A project changing its name sure merits being the first item on the changelog. It is something you do not want people to miss (putting it in the middle or near the end of the changelog risks people getting bored before getting to that line and skipping it without noticing).

VirtualBox 3.2 released

clugstj — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:50:02 +0000

The most important new feature (the first one listed) is that it is now owned by Oracle?