Comment by nikolay | Hacker News Reader

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  Notable enhancements in this release:
  
  - VM export to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic (OCI Classic) format
  - Automatic, unattended guest OS installation for Oracle VM VirtualBox Virtual Machines
  - Improved Virtual Machine Tools, including a new dynamic interface to manage Virtual Machine configuration and snapshot capabilities
  - New Global Tools handling
    * Virtual Media Manager manages media attributes like size, location, type and description
    * Host Network Manager simplifies managing corresponding networks and their attributes
  - GUI accessibility
    * New GUI icons for VirtualBox on all platforms (Windows, Linux, Oracle Solaris and Mac OS X)
    * Enhanced Virtual Machine Selector
    * Extended audio settings, with the option to enable/disable audio input/output
    * Snapshot Pane updates allow easier management of snapshot attributes, like name and description
  - Audio
    * Device enumeration support for audio backends (optional)
    * Support for host device callbacks (optional) and further enhancements
    * HDA emulation now uses asynchronous data processing in separate threads
  - Storage
    * Support for CUE/BIN images as CD/DVD media including multiple tracks
    * Support for the controller memory buffer feature for NVMe

So it's readable on mobile without attempting to horizontally scroll in too-small a space...

Notable enhancements in this release:

VM export to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic (OCI Classic) format

Automatic, unattended guest OS installation for Oracle VM VirtualBox Virtual Machines

Improved Virtual Machine Tools, including a new dynamic interface to manage Virtual Machine configuration and snapshot capabilities

New Global Tools handling

* Virtual Media Manager manages media attributes like size, location, type and description

* Host Network Manager simplifies managing corresponding networks and their attributes

GUI accessibility

* New GUI icons for VirtualBox on all platforms (Windows, Linux, Oracle Solaris and Mac OS X)

* Enhanced Virtual Machine Selector

* Extended audio settings, with the option to enable/disable audio input/output

* Snapshot Pane updates allow easier management of snapshot attributes, like name and description

Audio

* Device enumeration support for audio backends (optional)

* Support for host device callbacks (optional) and further enhancements

* HDA emulation now uses asynchronous data processing in separate threads

Storage

* Support for CUE/BIN images as CD/DVD media including multiple tracks

* Support for the controller memory buffer feature for NVMe

Thank you! Honestly, I never read HN on mobile devices, so, I wasn't aware of the issue, and I use Stylish for a dark theme and other enhancements on Chrome, which might be fixing some of the <pre /> issues as well.

Oh, it is a horrible experience on mobile but only for that function. Well, and the coloration but I'm partially colorblind and accept that I'm not a priority.

It's like they did the whole site perfectly and then just screwed that up for no good reason. HN is otherwise perfect, as I'm not counting the colors. Those are okay until they use gray (I think, I am never actually sure) text.

Totally off topic:

I wasn't always colorblind. It happened with age, according to the eye doc. It is so strange never being certain you're seeing colors properly. I didn't realize I was colorblind until people kept pointing out that I was wrong. 'No, David. The curtains are blue, not black.' It led to some amusing confrontations.

Anyhow, other than that, HN is pretty much perfect on mobile.

I think I mentioned once in HN how I flashed a few times a home router, with a failed result each time (red led). Then my brother walked by and saved me from my misery telling me that the led is actually orange-greenish which means that the flashing was successful.

I had a support guy fly cross - country for the same reason (I was seeing red leds on a key switch while they were orange)

Some movement on addressing VirtualBox Shared Folders performance issues would have been really nice to see. Has anyone been able to make it perform well for filesystem intensive (npm install, docker builds, etc.) tasks?

https://www.google.ca/search?q=virtualbox+shared+folders+per...

No. VirtualBox Shared Folders are still slow. I switched to NFS.

Just FYI, when you post content like that, it is completely unreadable.

This is a tiny CSS fix to simply remove the "width" attribute on code and pre. I wish someone from HN would fix this.

If only this were a website for technical people...

I agree, but that's the only option for posting something structured. I wish HN would give up and implement GitHub Flavored Markdown and allow us to post code snippets, nested lists, etc. Sorry, I do extra effort to convert HTML into comments - maybe I should write a tool instead. I try to always post a comment with release notes and not just an outbound link. It would be great if HN implements https://changelogs.md/ and gives an open to see the changelog without leaving the site.

Here's the problem:

  @media only screen and (min-width : 390px) and (max-width : 509px) {
    .comment { max-width: 350px; overflow: auto }
    pre { max-width: 260px; }
  }
  @media only screen and (min-width : 510px) and (max-width : 599px) {
    .comment { max-width: 460px; overflow: auto }
    pre { max-width: 340px; }
  }
  @media only screen and (min-width : 600px) and (max-width : 689px) {
    .comment { max-width: 540px; overflow: auto }
    pre { max-width: 400px; }
  }

They are putting max widths on child elements instead of letting the parent control things. It's foolishness.

But then, if you look at the html hacker news generates, it'll put you off your lunch.

How?

It's formatted monospaced text, its perfectly readable to me.

On my iphone, at least, the monospace section cuts off after ~20 characters and you have to drag back-and-forth to horizontally scroll the rest into view. Landscape mode helps, but not much.

It's fixed width at a tiny fraction of the screen width. Reading each line requires manually scrolling from start to end of the line, and then back to the beginning, seeing maybe 2-3 words at a time.

https://i.imgur.com/X3FcvQX.png

It doesn’t wrap on mobile and you have to scroll horizontally to read it all.

Nor does it wrap in Firefox, so pretty annoying on desktops as well. Unless you're using a large monitor.

(on mobile)

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