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[OriginalMacRat]

Note that VirtualBox 2.1.0 was released Dec 17.

[sigzero]

It didn't find the right desktop resolutions on my iMac. That sucks.

[fireblue]

"driving the VM well over 100 percent much of the time."
How can you use more than 100% - what is this CPU time? I want one of those....

[TopBanana]

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"driving the VM well over 100 percent much of the time."

How can you use more than 100% - what is this CPU time? I want one of those...."



Dual core or multiple CPU's - A dual core single CPU machine would show 200% CPU if you had both cores maxed out....

[griffman]

Sigh. Figures 2.1 comes out literally the day we finalized this review. I'll be taking a look at 2.1, and we may do a revisit, as it seems to add a few key features that I noted were missing in 2.0.6.
Timing is everything...and in this case, I clearly didn't have it :(.
-rob.

[Gunni]

With ten years experience working on six or seven different Macs and almost zero with Windows, I found VirtualBox to be terminally geeky and after it crashed on me multiple times, forcing me to start from scratch and reinstall it, I got rid of it and went to VMWare Fusion instead.
VMWare Fusion, 2.0.1 in particular, is just a fantastic app, in particular when run in Unity mode. Windows and OSX run seamlessly and shifting from one to the other is instantaneous.
Just my two cents,
Gunni

[OriginalMacRat]

Which version were you using? The Mac version wasn't really fully supported until the 2.xx code line.

[Gunni]

I don't know, but I recall it was around August or September of this year.

[griffman]

That was right around the 2.0 release time -- it came out on September 4th. If you didn't try 2.0, it may be worth a re-visit (especially the new 2.1; if it delivers as they describe it, my rating will probably change). The 1.6 series really was a preliminary product; 2.0 has been quite stable for me.
-rob.

[schafdog]

I had virtualbox 1.6 and it work in the beginning. Later it frozed OS X. Installed 2.0.4 and that worked.
I also have parallels 3, and for the need I have, virtualbox is good enough.

[schafdog]

On one area, virtualbox was better. It had built-in support for network boot (PXE).

[trip1ex]

Just discovered this as I had a need come up that required such a program. Since my need is lite, the price is right. Free.
Version 2.1.4 is the latest version. No problems downloading, installing, creating a VM, and installing XP.
Very impressed.