Upgrading Virtualbox

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:47 PM, NoOp<glgxg at sbcglobal.net>  wrote:
>>> On 06/03/2010 07:52 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>>> I'm running Lucid 10.04 which installed Virtualbox OSE 3.1.6.  I would
>>>> like to install an OS that recommends Vers 3.2.  How can I upgrade to 3.2?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,  Jim
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you follow Liam's advise you will be downloading and installing the
>>> VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL) version _not_ the
>>> OSE version, which is what you said you want.
>>
>> Perhaps you read the message differently to me. My take was that Jim
>> was running OSE and wanted to go to the latest&  greatest. Perhaps I
>> was wrong.
>
> At the time I was just thinking about upgrading OSE, but only because I
> had completely forgotten about PUEL.
>
>> Personally, TBH, I don't see anything wrong with the freeware PEUL
>> version. It's not hobbled with any "non-commercial use" or similar
>> caveats or gotchas: you can use it for anything you want, anywhere you
>> want. They just ask for - not demand, request - payment for multiuser
>> site-wide rollouts. Seems very fair to me.
>>
>> This being the case I've never even bothered looking at the OSE. Why
>> accept the compromises, unless one is a FOSS purist? (In which case,
>> one would probably not be running proprietary OSs under VMs!)
>>
>>
>
> I don't have any hangups about FOSS, right now it's just a matter of
> caution.  I have some important information in a XP VuirtualBox setup
> and my backup solution stopped working.

Well, all I can say is that I've gone from 3.1.2 to 3.1.4 to 3.2 to
3.2.2 (just today) with no problems or issues at all. Spotify is
cheerfully playing Morcheeba at me right now from a newly-upgraded
VBox using a VM created 4 versions ago.

I have not tried OSE, as I said, but I have read that VMs can move
smoothly from OSE to PUEL. The other way might be slightly trickier as
it means some virtual hardware would be lost, but it works fine.

Also, FWIW, my machine does /not/ have hardware VM, so it's a pure
software VM, which is in theory harder. Alas, no H/W VM means I can't
run OS/2 in VMs, something I did want to do. :¬(

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