Saturday, August 25, 2012

VirtualBox greatly improved running on MacBook Air

You may remember that I bought myself a Macbook Air earlier this year. To run Windows (I do program Windows now and again) I installed a Windows 7 OS on Oracle VirtualBox.

For earlier version of VirtualBox I was unable to allow the MacBook to sleep by leaving it or shutting the lid because the machine would lock up completely, effectively bombing the OSX as well as the virtual box.

I recently updated to the 4.1.8 R78361 version of VirtualBox and I'm happy to report that the problem has gone away. Closing the lid and sleeping the machine no longer has problems for either the base OS or the hosted one.

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