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Re:Petition to open source Flash by simion314 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:06PM (#14860811)
If you use the VM solution you probably need some open VM format, in case in a few years the current formats are dropped.
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Re:Petition to open source Flash by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:47PM (#14861084)
Just use a raw disk image? What format is there to lose?
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Re:Petition to open source Flash by simion314 on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:49AM (#14863622)
VirtualBox uses an XML file that stores your VM settings, and for disks there are a few options,for my work I use the disks that grow (so I set the disk to 100Gb but if I use 20 Gb now it will use 20Gb of my real disk space)
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Re:Petition to open source Flash by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday July 27, 2017 @07:27AM (#14864234)
That's fair, but the XML is probably non-essential, and I believe there are already open source converters for most disk image formats. There's some risk, but I don't think it's very much.
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