September 4, 2008
Sun Microsystems today announced a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, its high performance, free and open source desktop virtualization software
Users of xVM VirtualBox 2.0 software will now benefit from new support for 64-bit Guest operating systems like Windows Vista and RedHat Enterprise Linux, in addition to all other major host operating systems. The software also offers a new user interface for the Mac platform, improved networking for the Mac OS X and Solaris OS, as well as improved performance, especially on AMD chips.
Full Article: Sun Microsystems Unveils xVM VirtualBox 2.0 and New Enterprise Support Subscription
Download Here: Sun xVM VirtualBox
Download Here: VirtualBox
VirtualBox 2.0.0 (released 2008-09-04)
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
Sun Microsystems today announced a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, its high performance, free and open source desktop virtualization software
Users of xVM VirtualBox 2.0 software will now benefit from new support for 64-bit Guest operating systems like Windows Vista and RedHat Enterprise Linux, in addition to all other major host operating systems. The software also offers a new user interface for the Mac platform, improved networking for the Mac OS X and Solaris OS, as well as improved performance, especially on AMD chips.
Full Article: Sun Microsystems Unveils xVM VirtualBox 2.0 and New Enterprise Support Subscription
Download Here: Sun xVM VirtualBox
Download Here: VirtualBox
VirtualBox 2.0.0 (released 2008-09-04)
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
- 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)
- New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts
- The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements
- New-version notifier
- Guest property information interface
- Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts
- New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts
- Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)
- Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)
- Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)
- Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests
- Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts
- Support for VHD disk images
- VMM: VT-x fixes
- AHCI/SATA: improved performance
- GUI: keyboard fixes
- Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if unregistering the DKMS module fails
- Linux additions: the guest screen resolution is properly restored
- Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)
- Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11
- Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn’t simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)