VirtualBox 2.2.0 Release Announced.
April 11th, 2009 | 
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This is just a quick post to let readers know that VirtualBox announced on April 8 that version 2.2.0 was released. From the VirtualBox web site:
“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. See the ChangeLog for a list of changes since VirtualBox 2.1.”
New features listed in the Changelog:
VirtualBox 2.2.0 (released 2009-04-08)
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
- OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55)
- Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User Manual page 88)
- Hypervisor optimizations with signi?cant performance gains for high context switching rates
- Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB
- VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines
- USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)
- Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
- Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests
- OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70)
- Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services
I have upgraded my installations and plan to test the OVF import and export features soon. I will post again when I do.
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