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On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 6:53:43 PM walt wrote: |
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> Even while slogging through my painful and ongoing update of perl and |
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> friends, I managed to install Virtualbox-5.0.0 and its guest-additions. |
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> (Apparently these two packages don't depend on perl at build-time.) |
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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 again |
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> 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 performance |
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> with vbox-5.0.0. |
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No noticeable performance improvement for me using hardware virtualization. |
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The USB issue is because it no longer pulls the extension pack or additions |
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packages as a dependency so you need to add them to your world file. It also |
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fails to compile for me with doc or sdk flags. |
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Fernando Rodriguez |
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