[indiana-discuss] Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1.2

[Calum Benson]

On 22 Jan 2009, at 16:44, Will Murnane wrote:
>
>> This incremental release provides better support for the upcoming  
>> Windows 7, which already runs quite well under 2.1.0.
> I don't see anything specifically w7 related except adding it to the  
> GUI.

I believe the guest additions also work properly now as well  
(specifically, shared folders).

> I think these items should be fairly low on the priority scale.
> Running OpenSolaris in a VM is a use case that I only envision
> happening when trying it out.  I would rather see the developer hours
> required to enable those features spent on higher-priority things:
> crashing bugs, for example.

I can see both sides of the coin here.  I'd guess the vast majority of  
VirtualBox customers are running Windows or Linux guests on Windows or  
Linux machines, so priorities will be set accordingly.  But now that  
VirtualBox is a Sun product, I can also understand why some people  
will be disappointed at the rapid response to issues with hosting what  
is merely a beta version of Windows, when there has been seemingly- 
little movement on those larger and longer-standing shortcomings with  
hosting supported releases of Solaris and OpenSolaris.

Of course, as an open source project, I'm sure patches will be happily  
accepted :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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