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On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:43:05 -0400 |
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Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 6:53:43 PM walt wrote: |
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> > I fired up my vbox gentoo guest machine and, of course, I tried to |
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> > install the 5.0.0 guest additions kernel modules. |
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> > I got an error message about usb support in the guest kernel, so I |
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> > disabled guest usb support (temporarily) with the vbox gui, tried |
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> > again and the guest kernel modules installed with amazing speed. |
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> > I'd like to know if anyone else is seeing spectacular speed |
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> > performance with vbox-5.0.0. |
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> No noticeable performance improvement for me using hardware |
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> virtualization. |
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> The USB issue is because it no longer pulls the extension pack or |
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> additions packages as a dependency so you need to add them to your |
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> world file. |
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Thanks, I will. |
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A comment on nerd humor: while using vbox-5.0.0 my eye was drawn to a |
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little black spot in the vbox main window, and I wondered if it was a |
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dirt speck on my monitor screen. |
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I put on my reading glasses to take a closer look. It turned out to be |
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a new icon for the "Clone selected virtual machine" button in the form |
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of a black-faced sheep. |
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I conclude that this must be a sly reference to Dolly the Sheep, the |
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first 'higher' animal to be cloned successfully, except that Dolly |
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didn't have a black face, according to this: |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep) |
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