From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958CC138D20 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58F17E086C; Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:59:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43E5CE0855 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:58:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFtzL-00026I-0B for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:58:55 +0200 Received: from 216.240.144.30 ([216.240.144.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:58:54 +0200 Received: from w41ter by 216.240.144.30 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:58:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Virtualbox-5.0.0 [wow!] Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:58:39 -0700 Message-ID: <20150716175839.37e3aad3@a6> References: <20150714185343.57381da2@a6> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.240.144.30 X-Archives-Salt: ce6e7141-1ea1-445a-adfc-d2ab8b0b65fc X-Archives-Hash: d50544409495738f3dd7fd7fe7547acb On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:43:05 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 6:53:43 PM walt wrote: > > > > I fired up my vbox gentoo guest machine and, of course, I tried to > > install the 5.0.0 guest additions kernel modules. > > > > I got an error message about usb support in the guest kernel, so I > > disabled guest usb support (temporarily) with the vbox gui, tried > > again and the guest kernel modules installed with amazing speed. > > > > I'd like to know if anyone else is seeing spectacular speed > > performance with vbox-5.0.0. > > > > > > No noticeable performance improvement for me using hardware > virtualization. > > The USB issue is because it no longer pulls the extension pack or > additions packages as a dependency so you need to add them to your > world file. Thanks, I will. A comment on nerd humor: while using vbox-5.0.0 my eye was drawn to a little black spot in the vbox main window, and I wondered if it was a dirt speck on my monitor screen. I put on my reading glasses to take a closer look. It turned out to be a new icon for the "Clone selected virtual machine" button in the form of a black-faced sheep. I conclude that this must be a sly reference to Dolly the Sheep, the first 'higher' animal to be cloned successfully, except that Dolly didn't have a black face, according to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)