VirtualBox 3.0 Released

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 1st Jul 2009 21:11 UTC

Sun has released VirtualBox 3.0. The major improvements are: "Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only); Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications/games (experimental); Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests."

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3D Performance

by fretinator on Wed 1st Jul 2009 21:40 UTC

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2005-07-06

Does anyone have any benchmarks for 3D performance in a Windows guest? Currently I use Crossover Games to play my 3D Steam games. I was wondering how the 3D performance would compare in VBox. Maybe I can give it a shot this weekend.

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RE: 3D Performance

by sn0n on Wed 1st Jul 2009 22:07 UTC in reply to "3D Performance"

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2005-08-09

i was right there with you wondering about World of Warcraft performance over Wine... im guessing worse, since WoW supports OpenGL, and this is emulated over OpenGL.. *shrugs*

i think it's best to stick with crossover for you, and wine for me. ;-)

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3d games

by Adurbe on Wed 1st Jul 2009 22:27 UTC

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2005-07-06

my aspirations don't seem as high as others, I want zoo tycoon 2 to work

(although there IS a mac version there are not the expansion packs)

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by Hiev on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 00:47 UTC

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2005-09-27

USB setup is still a bitch, even in Windows =/.

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RE: ...

by l3v1 on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 09:21 UTC in reply to "..."

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2005-07-06

Ehh, been there. Plug the usb, share it, mount the share in the vbox guest. There.

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by pashar on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 13:56 UTC in reply to "RE: ..."

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2006-07-12

It would be good advice if only storage devices posed a problem.

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RE: ...

by darknexus on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 14:54 UTC in reply to "..."

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2008-07-15

USB setup is still a bitch, even in Windows =/.

Yeah, the USB 2.0 support seems to be broken with some chipsets and/or devices. Best to turn off the USB 2.0 support if you need to access a USB device. It'll be slower, but it'll work. One would think they would have concentrated on fixing that... Just one of the reasons VMware will most likely be my primary virtualization solution for the forseeable future.

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smp

by l3v1 on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 09:22 UTC

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2005-07-06

I've waited for smp for ages. Used the betas, now the final, seems working ok.

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clock

by g0nad on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 06:51 UTC

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2009-02-22

I uninstalled vbox2.2.4 then installed vbox3, on my win7 machine. I ran vbox3 and started my existing debian guest, the clock was out of control in the guest 1 second would be 2 minutes to the guest.

vbox3 would not uninstall. Luckily installing vbox2.2.4 clobbered vbox3.

Not impressed.

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Comment by Laurence

by Laurence on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 15:26 UTC

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2007-03-26

I've been using VBox 2.x.x to run virtual Linux servers on a 64bit Solaris host and have had good success with it.

Looking forward (like the sad geek I am) to upgrading to v3.

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Comment by joekiser

by joekiser on Fri 3rd Jul 2009 18:34 UTC

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2005-06-30

Just upgraded to 3.0 on Fedora 11 64-bit.

Can't say that there is any considerable improvement for what I do (schoolwork in Visual Studio, MS Office 2k7) but everything works perfectly post-upgrade. VirtualBox has been a godsend since I discovered it; no more dual-booting, and being free and available on many platforms is awesome.

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