Hey guys,
Been reading the virtual noob posts and a statement there intrigued me.
Someone said Oracle recommended using the virtualbox files from their
site rather than from the distro(Debian 8 - Jessie-AMD64). I have used
virtualbox in the past and had difficulty with I/O(usb) and found out
about the PUELA file and then before I could do anything about it my HD
failed. Well, I'm up and running again, have tried the distro version
w. the PUELA extension and on my W7 guest I end up with the CPU pegged
at 100% a few minutes after starting it up. That just isn't right. I
think but am not sure it has to do w. my usb webcam but not sure.
Anyway, want to start over and have the best foundation possible in
order to reduce the variables with possible problems later. So I feel
the Oracle software sitauation is the way to go.
So I am interested in using Oracle's files and have questions.
I can as recommended on the Oracle site, add Oracle to my sources list
file and the keyring. Have done similar w. multimedia w. no problems.
But since I have virtualbox 4.3.x files on the distro, will the first
update I do after I do the above, just add another set of virtualbox
files of the newer 5.x.x versions, leaving the lower versions alone? Or
will it cause a conflict? I would guess it should be OK but wanted to
check first before I hose things up.
OR
I can download the Jessie version 5.x.x .deb file and stick it into my
usr/loca/ directory and then have to mess around with manual updating
whenever Oracle comes out with a newer version.
Please advise. I would love to have a good working version of Windows
on my Linux box for the few times it is needed.
Thanks in advxnce for your help. You guys are great.
Whit
