VirtualBox 5.0 officially released
As a fun experiment, I do my day-to-day computing entirely in a Virtualbox Windows VM guest that I've given 2 cores, 150GB of storage and 4GB of RAM. I'm about a year and a half into the experiment and still chugging along.<p>It's a surprisingly performant day-to-day system, which I can snapshot to try out things, move to other machines if I need to, make backups etc. About the only thing it doesn't do well is really CPU intensive or GPU intensive operations.<p>But it works fine for 2 monitors, web browsing, watching videos, etc.<p>It's kind of surprising actually.<p>From time to time I'll also spin up some Linux VMs and do various dev activities in a real Linux, which I usually just background and ssh into from my Windows VM. It's kind of nice having a virtual rack of machines to monkey around on.<p>Less impressive has been trying to get Ubuntu to not feel terrible, but Centos works fine.<p>If I need better performance, I'll dive back to the host OS and do those things, but it's mostly just for gaming or music production.<p>Bonus, my host OS has stayed relatively free of junk and stays really snappy, even all this time later.<p>My only recent problem is that the Windows 10 updater won't qualify the VM guest for the upgrade. So I'll probably have to grab the ISO and try it that way.