Previous: Updating Ubuntu MATE 16.04 to 18.With the aid of virtual machines, which are available nowadays, you don’t need to install two operating systems on the same computer, in order to do different tasks. Posted: JCategory: Usability Tagged: General, Virtual Machines On the wish list is to see somebody reverse engineer the proprietary extension pack, offered under the GPL. Possibly move to KVM on Linux systems and Hyper-V on Windows. Shared folders, although mildly irritating, will suffice.

Thus far we do not need USB pass-through. When encryption is needed we can encrypt directly in the virtual hard disk using LUKS. Poking around the web indicates this might actually be the case.Īlthough not as seamless as RDP because of a broken hard-coded password requirement, we can use VNC. With the license change I smell entrapment. A minimum order of 100 licenses is absurd. If we could buy single licenses I would recommend the owner pay. By few I mean less than 10, probably less than 5. We only want to run a handful of virtual machines and on a few workstations. VirtualBox is the only reasonable cross-platform desktop solution.

There is a reason some people refer to the company name Oracle as an acronym.Īt work I want to use VirtualBox. Except that a minimum of 100 licenses must be purchased. Users lose access to full encryption and USB pass-through support.įor commercial or business usage the license is $50. Without the Extension Pack users do not have access to RDP but instead must use VNC. During the summer of 2017, between version 5.1.28 and 5.1.30, the PUEL was changed to explicitly forbid usage in commercial or business environments. Using the Extension Pack at work is a different story. As a personal user, I never gave much thought to the license of the VirtualBox Extension Pack. Free no monetary cost usage is governed by the PUEL - Personal Use and Evaluation License. Unlike the bulk of the Oracle VirtualBox code, the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack is closed source and proprietary.

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