Thursday, April 09, 2009

VirtualBox 2.2.0 – Open Source Virtualization Software

VirtualBox 2.2.0 (Windows, Open Source, 63.4MB) [alt DL] is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use.

Changes:

  • OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export
  • Host-only networking mode
  • Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates
  • Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB
  • VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines
  • USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)
  • Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
  • Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests
  • OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests
  • Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services
  • And lots of fixes and enhancements

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