• Video Card
  
  • VBoxVGA - older - deprecated
  • VMSVGA - emulates VMWare Workstation graphics adapter - in mainline kernel supposedly
  • VBoxSVGA - weird hybrid for upgrading existing VMs
  • https://superuser.com/questions/1403123/what-are-differences-between-vboxvga-vmsvga-and-vboxsvga-in-virtualbox
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• VBox supports the important file formats, VDI (it's own), VHD (MS), VMDK (aka VMWare): https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch05.html#vdidetails
• VirtualBox Seamless mode on Xubuntu to boot "to" Windows: http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/03/05/1313218/microsofts-attempt-to-convert-users-from-windows-xp-backfires
• This actually seems to work to make VirtualBox run as a service in the background - I've used it once - now at https://github.com/onlyfang/VBoxVmService/releases

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ID: 1040
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leonard
Date Updated:
2022-01-20 16:40:23
Date Created:
2022-01-20 16:39:21

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