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VirtualBox 7.0 with macOS M1 M2 support and Windows 11 support

33 points by orionblastar 4y ago

metadat 4y ago
Don't forget to disable the Oracle tracking that phones home when you use vbox. Larry is a family friend, so I don't worry about Big Red's lawyers banging my door down, but not everyone can count on his goodwill. Oracle has a history of going after vbox users in search of license fees.
- Iwan-Zotow 4y ago
  You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower
  - metadat 4y ago
    What about when this lawnmower has been part of your extended family since forever, and the person turns out to not actually be a lawnmower?
- mixmastamyk 4y ago
  How to disable it?
- Dork1234 4y ago
  Is there anyway to get a compile of virtualbox not from Oracle? I just don't just that checkbox.
cable2600 4y ago
Download is here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Linux, Windows, and MacOS
mixmastamyk 4y ago
Around 6.0 they broke the GUI for dark themes, now grey on white. Been struggling to read it for a couple of years now. Will it ever get fixed?
- mekster 4y ago
  Not while you complain here.
  - mixmastamyk 4y ago
    Have complained elsewhere but am not a paying customer.
reanimus 4y ago
This is an interesting reversal on their initial "we are an x86 only virtualization product" stance when people asked about plans around the initial M1 release. :)
bsaul 4y ago
how does one invoke rosetta when launching x86 binaries from an arm linux running in a vm ??
- mhio 4y ago
  The host provides a rosetta directory share to the guest. The guest registers the shared interpreter with binfmt_misc on the VM to launch x86_64 ELF binaries. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/running_intel_binaries_in_linux_vms_with_rosetta https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run... https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/binfmt-support https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/binfmt-support
musicale 4y ago
I think Apple probably got it right with supporting Rosetta 2 on Linux. As long as your x86 apps run properly, you probably don't have much of a reason to care that they're running in translation with an ARM CPU and OS kernel. The thing I wonder about, which I haven't tried, is: is it possible to run x86 containers (such as docker images) with Rosetta 2 on an ARM kernel? It seems to me like it should be possible; perhaps it already works?

33 points by orionblastar 4y ago

Don't forget to disable the Oracle tracking that phones home when you use vbox. Larry is a family friend, so I don't worry about Big Red's lawyers banging my door down, but not everyone can count on his goodwill. Oracle has a history of going after vbox users in search of license fees.

Iwan-Zotow 4y ago
You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower
- metadat 4y ago
  What about when this lawnmower has been part of your extended family since forever, and the person turns out to not actually be a lawnmower?
mixmastamyk 4y ago
How to disable it?
Dork1234 4y ago
Is there anyway to get a compile of virtualbox not from Oracle? I just don't just that checkbox.

cable2600 4y ago

Download is here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Linux, Windows, and MacOS

mixmastamyk 4y ago

Around 6.0 they broke the GUI for dark themes, now grey on white. Been struggling to read it for a couple of years now. Will it ever get fixed?

mekster 4y ago
Not while you complain here.
- mixmastamyk 4y ago
  Have complained elsewhere but am not a paying customer.

reanimus 4y ago

This is an interesting reversal on their initial "we are an x86 only virtualization product" stance when people asked about plans around the initial M1 release. :)

bsaul 4y ago

how does one invoke rosetta when launching x86 binaries from an arm linux running in a vm ??

mhio 4y ago
The host provides a rosetta directory share to the guest. The guest registers the shared interpreter with binfmt_misc on the VM to launch x86_64 ELF binaries. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/running_intel_binaries_in_linux_vms_with_rosetta https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run... https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/binfmt-support https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/binfmt-support

musicale 4y ago

I think Apple probably got it right with supporting Rosetta 2 on Linux. As long as your x86 apps run properly, you probably don't have much of a reason to care that they're running in translation with an ARM CPU and OS kernel. The thing I wonder about, which I haven't tried, is: is it possible to run x86 containers (such as docker images) with Rosetta 2 on an ARM kernel? It seems to me like it should be possible; perhaps it already works?