xVM VirtualBox Version 2.0 Released
Sun Microsystems’s desktop virtualization software, xVM VirtualBox has just made it to Version 2.0, from previous version 1.6.6. I just downloaded, and installed. It upgraded perfectly from the previous version, and the whole process of download and installation took less the five minutes. Major new features in the 2.0.0 release are:
- 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
Given the super-fast, super-smooth upgrade process, I’d expect VirtualBox users to upgrade pretty quickly…
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