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Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.12 a couple of days ago. This comes hot on the heels of version 7.2.10, which I wrote about here. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both seem OK. As with the last version, on Windows 11 I got away with a straight upgrade, but …

After my recent posts on this subject I got some questions, and I thought I would use my responses to write a new post. I’m hoping this makes the situation more clear. I’ll link my other posts on this subject at the bottom, in case you want to look at them. Some of these topics …

Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.10 a couple of days ago. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve done installations on Windows 11 and Linux Mint and both went fine. On Windows 11 I got away with a straight upgrade this time, but it’s worth remembering the cleanest way to upgrade on Windows is to do the following. …

I’ve posted on social media a few times about various open weight models released by Google. A recent post resulted in this question. “how to store and use an gemma 4 model from oracle database?” I gave this answer. “You would have to use the EmbeddingGemma model. Then programmatically generate the vector embeddings outside of …