OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/21762/VirtualBox_3_0_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:21:36 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com 3D Performance http://osnews.com/thread?371202 http://osnews.com/thread?371202 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. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments RE: 3D Performance http://osnews.com/thread?371212 http://osnews.com/thread?371212 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. ;-) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sn0n) Comments 3d games http://osnews.com/thread?371217 http://osnews.com/thread?371217 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) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments ... http://osnews.com/thread?371237 http://osnews.com/thread?371237 USB setup is still a bitch, even in Windows =/. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments RE: ... http://osnews.com/thread?371272 http://osnews.com/thread?371272 Ehh, been there. Plug the usb, share it, mount the share in the vbox guest. There. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments smp http://osnews.com/thread?371273 http://osnews.com/thread?371273 I've waited for smp for ages. Used the betas, now the final, seems working ok. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3v1) Comments RE[2]: ... http://osnews.com/thread?371316 http://osnews.com/thread?371316 It would be good advice if only storage devices posed a problem. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pashar) Comments RE: ... http://osnews.com/thread?371329 http://osnews.com/thread?371329
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. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (darknexus) Comments clock http://osnews.com/thread?371493 http://osnews.com/thread?371493 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. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (g0nad) Comments Comment by Laurence http://osnews.com/thread?371581 http://osnews.com/thread?371581 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. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments Comment by joekiser http://osnews.com/thread?371608 http://osnews.com/thread?371608 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. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (joekiser) Comments