Dec. 1, 2008
Virtualbox was released the 21st of November with a few bugfixes. Some of what was fixed was the support for Nokia USB connected phones! I thought I would try this out thoroghly before writing this post, however as I have had the luck of filling my time with other stuff :/ I realized that this will not happen. So far I can confirm that Nokia PC Suite now finds the phone and can atleast perform a full backup of my E71. However, I tried to be a little wild-and-crazy and update my firmware to the latest available which failed miserably twice. I’m guessing I should count myself lucky not bricking the phone based on the big fat WARNING messages that tell you … whatever you do, do not disconnect your phone…
A REALLY annoying thing with the 2.0.6 release is that the number of failed resumes from a saved state have increased considerably for me. Having an increase from one or two problems with resuming a previously saved state a month to four five times since my upgrade a weak ago does not feel that great. Even though this might be totally unrelated to version 2.0.6 failures started increasing about that time.
As one of my main reasons for switching to Virtualbox was the overall speed of virtualization and the speed of resuming from a saved state, this obviously bugs me a lot. Even though VMWare was awfully slow at resuming it only failed once or twice in a year.
