I have virtualbox 1.5.4 installed on openSUSE 10.3 from a download from virtualbox. I am considering upgrading to 1.6. Two questions (1) can I upgrade without risking my virtual machines? I know I can make copies, but I am still curious. (2) is there any advantage in using the release from virtualbox over the one in the build service? In the 1.5 series, the download from virtualbox was claimed to have fixed things not in the build release, which stayed a few point releases behind. I know it is probably too new to tell, but anyone have a feeling for this?
I bumped up to 1.6 and have had no problems at all with opening and using my existing VMs. That said, I would still highly recommend a backup of your VMs before updating if you rely on those VMs for anything important. The binary release of VirtualBox has extras not included in the OpenSource Edition... it's documented... http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions Some people have reported networking issues: http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1471 (regression in the PCNet implementation, fixed in SVN) http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=6092&sid=0915c9efc37228b0f967f8b84dec7d5e The impact depends on how you use you VMs and how you expect them to be connected to the outside world. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org