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VirtualBox 1.6

                     

InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products 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 Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction; see "InnoTek" for more about our company.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows and Linux 32-bit hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), 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 InnoTek ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

Changelog:

  • The new Sun livery
  • Solaris and Mac versions no longer in beta
  • Guest Additions for Solaris
  • Seamless windowing for Solaris and Linux guests
  • SATA support for up to 32 hard disks per VM (first product in the industry to do SATA!)
  • PAE support for guests (memory model required by some server OSes)
  • Web Services API for remote management
  • Significant improvements to scalability

    In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

    • GUI: added accessibility support (508)
    • GUI: VM session information dialog
    • VBoxHeadless: renamed from VBoxVRDP
    • VMM: reduced host CPU load of idle guests
    • VMM: many fixes for VT-x/SVM hardware-supported virtualization
    • ATA/IDE: better disk geometry compatibility with VMware images
    • ATA/IDE: virtualize an AHCI controller
    • Storage: better write optimization, prevent images from growing unnecessarily.
    • Network: support PXE booting with NAT
    • Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for Nexenta guests
    • NAT: improved builtin DHCP server (implemented DHCPNAK response)
    • NAT: port forwarding stopped when restoring the VM from a saved state
    • NAT: make subnet configurable
    • XPCOM: moved to libxml2
    • XPCOM: fixed VBoxSVC autostart race
    • Audio: SoundBlaster 16 emulation
    • USB: fixed problems with USB 2.0 devices
    • MacOS X: fixed seamless mode
    • MacOS X: better desktop integration, several look’n’feel fixes
    • MacOS X: switched to Quartz2D framebuffer
    • MacOS X: added support for shared folders
    • MacOS X: added support for clipboard integration
    • Solaris: added host audio playback support (experimental)
    • Solaris: made it possible to run VirtualBox from non-global zones
    • Shared Folders: made them work for NT4 guests
    • Shared Folders: many bugfixes to improve stability
    • Seamless windows: added support for Linux guests
    • Linux installer: support DKMS for compiling the kernel module
    • Linux host: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.25
    • Windows host: support for USB devices has been significantly improved; many additional USB devices now work
    • Windows Additions: automatically install AMD PCNet drivers on Vista guests
    • Linux additions: several fixes, experimental support for RandR 1.2
    • Linux additions: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.25

    This is a very good alternative to VMware Workstation. Although comparatively it lacks a LOT of features, it's the best free virtual machine you can get.  User Manual (current development snapshot, updated 2007-06-06)

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