[Cialug] Virtualbox Newbie

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Fri May 17 13:56:23 CDT 2013


On Fri, 17 May 2013, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:

> I'm curious what issues you've seen when upgrading? I've used VirtualBox
> as my desktop virtualization through several upgrades without any real
> issues.
>
With vboxtool & phpvirtualbox installed, last time we upgraded our test
server it took almost a day to work through all of the issues generated
(about 18 months ago). Since then, we have avoided any updates and do not
update any other machines in the field for that reason.

> I do occasionally use the command line tools, but primarily use
> the GUI.
>
If that's all you are using, you're probably OK, but you are missing out
on some the better tools and functionality (a la autostart).

	Lee


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