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VirtualBox now Oracle VM VirtualBox; new features beta'ed
Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 04 May 2010 14:28
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The first beta release of VirtualBox 3.2.0 delivers some interesting new features.
The name change is the result of Oracle's recently completed acquisition of Sun.
Major new features include 'experimental' support for Mac OS X guests (Apple's licence agreement currently allows only the server version to be used in a virtualised environment), the ability to dynamically vary the amount of RAM ('memory ballooning') and the number of CPUs provided to a virtual machine, and support for executing guest applications from the host system.
Memory ballooning requires a 64-bit host OS, and the CPU hot-plugging feature allows the addition and removal of CPUs to Linux guests but only addition to certain Windows guests.
Other new features include hypervisor changes for improved performance, the ability to delete snapshots without shutting down the VM, multi-monitor guest support, RDP video acceleration, and enhanced OVF support.
What else has changed? See page 2.
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