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    What ever you happens, do not use this for commercial purposes. Virtual box is free and libre but the guest addons are not. They will find and bill you for every single person in your company. Not per active user but per employee. This has cost companies millions

    Under Linux you can just use KVM. Gnome boxes or virtual manager should work fine.

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      And they DO NOT CARE if you don’t actually use or install the extensions (unless something has changed, the guest add-ons are part of the free open source part, it’s the extensions for things like USB 2 support that aren’t free for commercial)

      You can use it freely, by license, but they’ll come after you anyway

      I’m still pissed that they bought Sun, so many great products now controlled by those assholes… Virtual box, MySQL, Solaris, Java…

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        I’ve just seen quite a few posts about companies getting audited by Oracle over Virtual box and Java