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In past I wanted my employers to pay for VirtualBox commercial licences (to support the project and in some cases it was a requirement that all software used in
by jeff_vader 9y ago
In past I wanted my employers to pay for VirtualBox commercial licences (to support the project and in some cases it was a requirement that all software used in development process is properly licensed) but I couldn't even find it anywhere as a product. Nowadays it is available[1] (not sure since when) but minimum number of licenses to purchase is 100.
[1]: https://shop.oracle.com/apex/product?p1=OracleVMVirtualBoxEnterprise https://shop.oracle.com/apex/product?p1=OracleVMVirtualBoxEn...
- userbinator 9y agoInteresting. The minimum order quantity suggests that Oracle is not interested in small orders (and I'm almost willing to bet that if you asked to buy fewer than that for commercial use, the response would be "just use it for free".) $50/user is also quite low by Oracle standards... I guess they decided the legal fees involved in going after "small violations" are not worth the trouble. However, even the extensions used to be free for "noncommercial use in a commercial environment" --- they silently changed the license relatively recently: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=85092 https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=85092
- alyandon 9y agoYikes, that license change bites. I guess I'm going to have to switch to using KVM at work now if I to do things like USB device passthrough now. Shame too because setting up KVM networking is way more complicated than setting up VirtualBox networking.