[opensuse] virtualbox 1.6 (or whatever it is now called)
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? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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?
Same story as Clayton. I have upgraded to VB 1.6 on 4 machines now, both i386 and x86-64 without any problems. Completely uneventful update, as they all should be... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 09 May 2008 01:06:06 am Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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?
The new version converts VDIs to new format that is not compatible with older VBox versions. I had no chance to test that. Looking at the speed it happened it is something in the description of VDI. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I won't naysay the others, but if you are running 11.0 beta then I would hold off. I installed a clean 11.0 and VB 1.6 closed source version and I've had serious problems with the VM disk thrashing and then crashing. Downgrading and installing a new VM got the same issue, so I'm not sure if it's a VB problem, an openSuse problem, or something has gone bad with my hardware. John. On Friday 09 May 2008, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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?
-- Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST
Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden
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On Sunday 11 May 2008 04:25:32 pm John Layt wrote:
I won't naysay the others, but if you are running 11.0 beta then I would hold off. I installed a clean 11.0 and VB 1.6 closed source version and I've had serious problems with the VM disk thrashing and then crashing. Downgrading and installing a new VM got the same issue, so I'm not sure if it's a VB problem, an openSuse problem, or something has gone bad with my hardware.
If you have active fsck on boot (file system check), I would start with the last in the list. Use 'badblocks' utility in nondestructive mode to check physical partition. See 'man badblocks' for details. If fsck wasn't run for a while that do that first. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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