30th April 2017, 3:56
(20th March 2017, 12:23)rocky7x Wrote: Hi,
I use Virtualbox for years and being very satisfied with it. No issues at all. Using the version from the Ubuntu repositories, not the one from Virtualbox site, though.
Though i'm replying to your post Rocky, i suspect you might not necessarily know the answer, so i hope also that the Devs might wade into this too [pls].
Do you / does anyone, know if it is possible to keep using VMs that were created with the proprietary Oracle versions of VirtualBox [AND its important Guest Additions], if i completely uninstall all aspects of the Oracle-site pgm, then install the older Maui/Ubuntu repos version?
I have many many VB VMs & a lot of them pre-date Maui (ie, i created them years ago when i still ran Mint 17.x KDE4]. As back then Mint's repo seemed to have only an ancient version of VB, rightly or wrongly i decided not to install it, but instead download & use the Oracle-site VB version [of both the base VB pgm, but also GA]. Ever since then, as newer VB versions became available on the VB site, i routinely kept updating my VB & GA pgms that way.
I really like & value VB [more than VMWare], & my many VMs are important to me. However one persistent failing of VB for me, over the long-term, which gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies, is this, which happens too often upon restoring VMs that i chose to Save rather than completely shutdown, last time:
Every time this failure occurs i have to Discard the specific VM's saved state, thus losing all my "arranged stuff" in it that i had wanted to resume once the VM was restored.
It occurred to me that maybe this frequent failure mode [more saved-state resumptions succeed than fail, but the failures are still too often for my liking, & randomly occur to any of the Linux-VMs, & Windows-VMs] might be eliminated if i reverted to the Repos-based VB & GA version instead of the official Oracle VB-site versions...? However, i cannot experiment on this IF it might endanger the viability of all my VMs [certainly i am not willing to just throw them all away & begin again with no VMs].
Thoughts pls?