Re:VirtualBox 6.0 released
by rbanffy on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:37AM
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For tools like Vagrant, not at all. They are very useful if you want to attach USB devices directly to the VM, use the built-in webcam and so on, but I've used VirtualBox for years without installing the extension once.
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USB 2.0 and 3.0 are not fully supported without the extension pack.
Which again are irrelevant for the common “just for Vagrant” use case.
I have used it for testing on different Windows browsers, to check whether https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font would install correctly, and running some Windows software from my bank. The only time I needed the extensions was when I needed to reflash my Blackberry 10 DevAlpha (whose battery, sadly, is dead - I loved that phone)