Jeff swicegood
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Do VM's automatically get the benefit of Virtualbox updates, or do VM's have to be (partially) re-installed?
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Yes, but say VB introduces improvements to or even adds virtual hardware. Does anything need to be done in the VM to take advantage of that? Some parts of some Guest OS's do not work at present, for instance like graphics acceleration. VB is working on some of these to make them functional.
You need to manually install the VirtualBox extensions whenever there are updates. You also have to get the new extensions via VirtualBox to VirtualBox yourself.
Many Linux distro's include the VirtualBox extensions in their repositories, so if you installed them via the repositories in the first place, they will get updated whenever they get available and you run the Distro's package manager.
Many Linux distro's include the VirtualBox extensions in their repositories, so if you installed them via the repositories in the first place, they will get updated whenever they get available and you run the Distro's package manager.
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So provided I update VB and install the extensions, those things that don't work in VM's will start working on their own if a fix has been developed?
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If your not sure you can always backup the VM files...
In principle you could even uninstall Virtualbox and re-install completely, without impacting the VM's