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Hang on... WTH??? The most popular virtualisation software out there that's full-featured and free to use... is shutting down their website for three days for

by quink 15y ago

Hang on... WTH??? The most popular virtualisation software out there that's full-featured and free to use... is shutting down their website for three days for planned maintenance? This is something that would have happened in 1993. Maybe. Between this and java.sun.com being offline it's pretty much the biggest red flag to stay away from Oracle as far as possible I could imagine.

llimllib 15y ago
And the coursera compilers class is distributing its dev environment as a virtualbox image. I'm lucky I have a copy already.
- harshreality 15y ago
  Downloads are still there. http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.14/ http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.14/
  - HaakonKL 15y ago
    Worst case scenario, you'd get it from your package manager. There's likely a few downloads on torrent sites for the download as well. Since it's FLOSS it should be legal to grab it from torrents anyway.
    - checkers 15y ago
      http://techiest.blogspot.com/ http://techiest.blogspot.com/
jsprinkles 15y ago
Could be any number of things, operationally, and could also have a buffer built-in to the maintenance window to avoid unexpected issues. Take a breath, you have more important things to worry about.