Sun VirtualBox 2.1.0 Was Released
VirtualBox is a free virtualization solution developed and maintained by Sun Microsystems, Inc., offering a suite of tools suitable for virtual machines management on desktop computers or enterprise servers. Sun VirtualBox version 2.1.0 was released on December 17, 2008 and the software distribution packs can be freely downloaded for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Solaris and OpenSolaris hosts operating systems.
Version 2.1.0 of VirtualBox represents a major update which provides many new important features. It supports various guest operating systems, like Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and more.
VirtualBox provides flexibility in usage due to a modular design: for example a virtual machine can be deployed from the GUI and controlled from the command line. The virtual machines configuration files are based on XML and as a consequence they do not depend on a specific computer, being easy to “transport” across different local hosts.
This virtualization solution provides many of the necessary tools found in similar commercial software, like guest additions for Windows and Linux, shared folders, virtual USB controllers, remote desktop protocol and others.
The major new features added in version 2.1.0 are represented by the support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts and for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems, as well as for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements and for 3D acceleration via OpenGL (details are available in changelog).
In order to run VirtualBox comfortably, the requirements regarding memory, hard disk space, supported hosts and guests operating systems must exist for users computers.
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