filePro and Oracle Virtual Box

[Fairlight]

I know of issues with VirtualBox in general, and would never again
recommend it.

I ran VBox for some five years or so under XP.  I started in early v3.x,
and ran through the latest 4.x available two months ago.

It was -awesome- back in v3.x.  Ever since v4.x, I was -plagued- with
sporadic, inconsistent problems.  It would fail to finish the same exact
boot of the same exact virtual machine, sporadically.  You could literally
have a VM running, stop it (cleanly!), restart it, VBox would error and
crash, you'd restart it, and it would boot fine.  It was failing about 20%
of the time.

When it -would- run the VM, there was a good chance, introduced in 4.x,
that it would suddenly start sucking your CPU completely dry for no reason
at all - to the extent that I had to wait a good 5-10min to be able to
forcefully terminate the headless VM.

I would never, never, ever again run VBox in a production capacity.  Ever.
It's not reliable enough, and it has gotten -less- mature as they've
progressed, not moreso.

If you want to go the least expensive route that I consider viable, I
suggest VMWare Workstation.  Stable, mature, reliable, proven.  I haven't
had any issues with it, and I'm running four VMs at once.  About my only
complaint is that you can only auto-start VMs if they're switched to Shared
VMs, and Shared VMs cannot have local shared folders defined where they can
write to a local folder on the host.  That, and the systray icon doesn't
know anything about shared VMs running, although they -are- running, and
simply opening Workstation as an application will let you do anything you
want.  You just lose the ability to single-click the icon and pick a
machine to jump to, or hover over it and see how many VMs are -really-
running.  It's apparently been that way since at least v8.  (I bought in at
v10.)  But you can easily "survive" (more like thrive) under VMWare
Workstation without doing the whole ESXi scenario - especially if you've
been putting up with the shallow lack of robustness and cornucopia of
bugginess which is VirtualBox.  It's a big upgrade in stability, and one of
the best $250 purchases you'll ever make.

Believe me, if VBox acts anything like it had been acting the last few
years for me, you will regret putting anything serious on it, nevermind
-what-.  Yes, it's entirely possible for VBox to flake out and do bizarre
things.  I don't trust it as far as I can throw Oracle's CEO.

mark->

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:51:09AM -0700, Richard Hane thus spoke:
> One of my IT guys has been installing Oracle VM Virtual Box on our Win7 workstations.  We are replacing the 'free' Microsoft XP Virtual.
> 
> Does anyone know of any issues between fpODBC 5.0.15 (network) and this Oracle VM Virtual Box?  We are receiving ODBC errors in our ERP software running under the Oracle.  filePro is running under Win7.  We do data updates from RP to filePro via ODBC but NOT at the times of the errors.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Rick Hane
> 
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