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October 6, 2009
VirtualBox 3.0.8 released!
Sun today released VirtualBox 3.0.8, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.0 which improves stability and performance. See the ChangeLog for details. -
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June 30, 2009
VirtualBox 3.0.0 released!
Sun today released VirtualBox 3.0.0, a major update introducing symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) in virtual machines as well as much improved 3D support. -
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April 8, 2009
VirtualBox 2.2.0 released!
Sun today released VirtualBox 2.2.0 which marks another major milestone for the world's most popular free and open source hypervisor. Among the many improvements are support for OVF appliances, 3D acceleration for Linux/Solaris guests and support for up to 16GB of RAM per virtual machine.
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
Hot picks:
- VirtualBox Web Console project site and blog
- Whitepaper: Optimizing the desktop using Sun VirtualBox (reg. req'd)
- Watch the VirtualBox VirtualBox Live Show
- VirtualBox press coverage: http://blogs.sun.com/VirtualBoxBuzz
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