Virtualbox 5.0

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Oracle VM VirtualBox
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Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 Now Available (press release)

The 5.0 release supports the latest guest or host operating systems including: Mac OS X Yosemite, Windows 10, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, other Linux operating systems, and legacy operating systems. New capabilities in Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0:

• Paravirtualization Support for Windows and Linux Guests: Significantly improves guest OS performance by leveraging built-in virtualization support on operating systems such as Oracle Linux 7 and Microsoft Windows 7 and newer.
• Improved CPU Utilization: Exposes a broader set of CPU instructions to the guest OS, enabling applications to make use of the latest hardware instruction sets for maximum performance.
• Support of USB 3.0 Devices: Guest operating systems can directly recognize USB 3.0 devices and operate at full 3.0 speeds. The guest OS can be configured to support USB 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0.
• Bi-Directional Drag and Drop Support for Windows: On all host platforms, Windows, Linux and Oracle Solaris guests now support “drag and drop” of content between the host and the guest. The drag and drop feature transparently allows copying or opening of files, directories, and more.
• Disk Image Encryption: Data can be encrypted on virtual hard disk images transparently during runtime, using the industry standard AES algorithm with up to 256 bit data encryption keys (DEK). This helps ensure data is secure and encrypted at all times, whether the VM is sitting unused on a developer's machine or server, or actively in use.

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Changelog for VirtualBox 5.0

Här är ett urklipp av en del av det - det som är relaterat till OS X.
...+ att det verkar som det jobbat lite mer på 3Daccelerationen. Låter ju hoppfullt.

• GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)
• GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)
• GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks
• Audio: fixed audio output and input when changing the default audio device more than once on OS X
• Audio: fixed audio input on OS X under certain circumstances
• Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug which might trigger a host kernel panic if a VM is started and another hypervisor is active
• Solaris hosts: installer fix for very recent versions of Solaris
• Mac OS X guests: limit the CPU family for legacy guests

Listan är längre på sidan för den som är intresserad.

[Ollie Williams]

Låter trevligt!

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Bör nämnas med, att med version 5.0 är systemkraven bumpade till:

• Mac OS X hosts (64-bit):
  • 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
  • 10.9 (Mavericks)
  • 10.10 (Yosemite)

via Chapter 1. First steps

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Bugtraq: [sECURITY] [DSA 3359-1] virtualbox security update

Man kan inte lita på ett företag som medvetet håller inne deras säkerhetsmissar/problem.

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Ja, då är det bara att leta upp ngt annat då. Blir väl en betald variant. Finns ju andra lösningar med, men en del av dem bygger på att man har Vbox.

Alternativ att man skiter i Win/IE helt. Som en i kommentarfältet här skrev:

“Let's stop supporting IE and make them support us.. ”

Låter som en bra plan.