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September 4, 2008

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Sun thinking outside the VirtualBox (2)

Posted Sep. 4, ’08, 12:44 PM PT by Scott McNulty
Category | Software

sunvirutalbox.jpgEveryone loves virtualization, right? Intel Macs running Windows in an OS X window? That’s black magic, my friends, and very powerful magic, at that. There are two great virtualization products out there that most Mac users in the know are aware of: Parallels and VMware Fusion. Both are fine programs, but there is a third program that is sometimes overlooked: VirtualBox by Sun, which we’ve written about a couple of times.

Sun just released version 2 of VirtualBox and they kept my favorite feature intact: the price. VirtualBox is free, so you really have no reason not to try it out (other than being happy with OS X and not needing another operating system in your life). In addition to keeping the low, low price, the fine folks at Sun added some new features:

  • 64 bit guest OS support
  • A revamped UI for Leopard
  • Notifications for new versions

And a host of other, far geekier new features like, ‘Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data,’ and ‘Support for VHD disk images.’ Say it with me, now: Ooooh. Ahhhhh.


1 Comments

Lawrence Teo said:

I haven't tried version 2.0 yet, but I had issues running OpenBSD on VirtualBox 1.6. Although it's not Windows or another popular OS, OpenBSD is an OS I needed to use for work.

Also, there are actually two versions of VirtualBox: non-free and free. I also elaborated on that in my post.

September 4, 2008 7:10 PM

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