Upgraded my Virtualization environment

A few weeks ago VirtualBox 6.0.4 is released. A minor release of the recent major release of 6.0. Although already anounced by Tim ~Oracle Base ~ Hall, I had not upgraded yet. I was still on 5.2.x. Change log of VirtualBox can be here. There are some interesting improvements. For instance, I'm curious to see what we can expect from the Oracle Cloud integration. And on several points, like shared folders, the performance is improved.

The UI is refreshed. I like the separate Tools bar with quick buttons to Import, Export and create new VM's. But, since I work with Vagrant more and more, I will see this screen less and less.


Also Vagrant has a new version since beginning of january. And I upgraded to 2.2.3. Change log can be found here.

All seem to function fine together. With my recent uprgaded MobaXterm 11.1 I can start my JDeveloper 12c from the started VM perfectly.

 The VM was suspended with VBox 5.2.x and Vagrant 2.2.2. And started with the latest greated. With nothing on the hand.

By the way, VMWare Player had VMWare Unity and VirtualBox the Seamless mode for years. It allows you to start your apps in the VM and run them as if they run as separate windows on your host. Years ago when I used VMWare Player, I was quite impressed by it. But I never got used to the VBox Seamless mode. Nowadays my favorite way of working is to connect to start the VM without UI (set the  vb.gui property to false in your Vagrantfile), connect to it using MobaXterm and start the app (JDeveloper for instance). The X Server implementation of MobaXterm will take care of the rest. Works like a charm!