Windows 10: Virtualbox 4.3.22 is out

Users of Oracle Virtualbox who haven't already spotted it may like to know that version 4.3.22 is out.

It now includes Windows 10 (32 and 64 bit) in the list of Operating Systems and I believe it's had some other fixes to help with running Windows 10.

Not tried it much yet though.

:)

 

Windows 10 updates keep breaking VirtualBox

Windows pushed out some updates about a week ago that broke the bridged network setting in my VirtualBox installation. Just yesterday I downloaded and installed the latest test build of VirtualBox which fixed this. This morning I tried to boot my virtual
machine and ran into the same problem, Windows updates went out last night...or recently, I don't know. I'll try installing the latest test build from VirtualBox again but this is starting to **** me off. What am I supposed to be doing here if I can't disable
Windows updates and VirtualBox can't keep up with Microsoft's moving target?

 

What is the Virtual Machine to run Mint or Ubuntu?

Oracle VirtualBox provides full out of the box support for both:

How to: install the latest Windows 10 in Oracle VirtualBox

 

If you are using this to run a TP Guest then the guest additions work so you can install the display adapter and get proper resolution. Note that if you define your VM as Windows 10 it defaults to tablet mode. You may want to change that if you use a mouse.

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If you try to install it on TP running on real hardware though the install freezes. Windows will then not boot (even in safe mode) and you have to refresh or re-install the preview. I've done this twice now so I'm sticking with Hyper-V for the moment. The previous version installed OK for me.

 

Ah - now you mention it, I think installing the previous version of Oracle VB was what killed my Ten Preview machine (on real hardware). I had Bitlocker encryption running too - it was quite a pain to get in to recover data before re-installing.

 

Version 4.3.12 from here Download_Old_Builds_4_3 – Oracle VM VirtualBox works well with the latest guest additions. There is a long discussion about hardening impacting later builds on their forums https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewto...63923&start=45

 

Interesting reading here guys !
I use VMWare tough.

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