On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:43:05 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com> 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)
