{"id":5964,"date":"2011-11-28T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/vmlite-4-x-beta-released\/"},"modified":"2020-12-21T00:41:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T23:41:43","slug":"vmlite-4-x-beta-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/28\/vmlite-4-x-beta-released\/","title":{"rendered":"VMLite 4.x Beta released"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German edition<\/a>]Today I received an email from VMLite developers, informing me, that a public beta of VMLite 4.x is available for download. VMLite is a desktop virtualization solution for Windows, based on Virtualbox, but comming with a few nice extensions.<<\/p>\n

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\"\"The VMLite 4.x beta is downloadable at this website<\/a> (but need to register). The 130 MB download file may be installed under Windows (I used Windows 7 for my tests).<\/p>\n

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Attention:<\/strong> A Virtualbox installation or a previous VMLite 3.x installation should be removed before installing VMLite 4.x (otherwise settings stored from the old versions are conflicting with the beta). Also a user mentioned in VMLite forum, that VMLite 4.x Beta should not be installed on a Windows 7 Host, bootet from a vhd-disk, if the disk contains a snapshot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Integrate Windows XP-Mode \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

One nice VMLite extension (compared to Virtualbox) ist the possibility, to integrate Windows XP-Mode. At the end of the install process, a wizzard asks to integrate Windows XP-Mode.<\/p>\n

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If there is a .vhd file with Windows XP-Mode on a machine, it can be integrated as a VMLite VM. I tried that on a Windows 7 Home Premium host – Windows XP-Mode booted without any problems \u2013 and till now I wasn't asked to activate Win XP.<\/p>\n

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[Update: Forgot to mention, during Windows XP-mode boot I got 3 error messages, reporting broken shared folders. Inspecting the issue showed me, that VMLite Beta tries to re-use drive letters, that are already occupied from my host's sd card readers (see image below). This can be fixed in device menu \/ shared folder<\/em> settings. I've reported that bug. And I should also mention, that you should install the Guest Additions linked at [3]. The images already rolled out with VMLite 4.2.a Beta creates an error during install.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A new high light: Virtualization of the host<\/strong><\/p>\n

VMLite 4.x beta still comes with another goodie: VMLite may be used to virtualize the host operating system, as a developer wrote in VMLite forum.<\/p>\n

The most significant feature is a special kind of vm, as we call it \"VMLite\", to run the current running host OS inside a virtual machine, so all apps (including drivers) can be executed inside a sandbox. It only takes a few mins to have such vm running. it's \"exact clone\" of the host os.
\nOthers are cpu improvement, Aero support, better USB support, etc.<\/p>\n

To test the new feature, go to menu Machine > New VMLite … to create a sandbox to virtualize host os.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is my Machine <\/em>menu and I selected New VMLite<\/em>, to invoke the wizard.<\/p>\n

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Set virtualization wizard proposes a name, a operating system and a OS type. In a 2nd dialog box you can change the amount of RAM useable by the Guest system.<\/p>\n

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After finishing the wizard, using Next<\/em>, the host os should be transferred to a .vdi disk \u2013 and the recommended drivers will be injected. If you just use VMLite for virtualization, third party solutions as Paragon Go Virtual<\/a> introduced a few days ago in my blog are obsolete. Unfortunately the wizard doesn't work in my environment. Cloning the host was always interrupted with an error \u2013 but I guess, it might have something to do with my low free disk space on my host disk. But I haven't found an option to direct all temporary files to an empty disk.<\/p>\n

Some some other neu features still in the pipe?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also another statement from the developers made in the VMLite forum was quite interesting:<\/p>\n

And we are working towards this direction: to make the same virtual disk to become bootable as a vm, also via vboot to boot a physical pcs. VMLite will be unique in this area, the only solution that can use same disk files physically and virtually.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you already made an OS available in a virtual disk, you may boot that disk as a virtual machine in VMLite. And you can use VMLite's VBOOT for a native boot as well. If that works, it will be a unique feature. Well we have to wait, what VMLite developers still have in stock \u2013 in the past they came out with a few surprises from time to time. But we have to be patient, because it took it's time to release a new product in the past.<\/p>\n

Links:
\n<\/strong>1: Discussion about VMLite 4.x Beta
\n2: Download page <\/a>(VMLite 4.2.A)
\n3: VMLite Guest Additions (modifified)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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