| Sun boosts virtualisation performance with VirtualBox 2.0 |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 08 September 2008 | |
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Another type of virtualisation software known as a hypervisor does away with the host OS. The hypervisor - Microsoft's Hyper-V and VMware's ESX - sits between multiple operating systems and the hardware. VirtualBox became a Sun product when the company acquired Germany-based Innotek in February 2008, adding the software to its xVM family. New features delivered in version 2 include support for 64-bit guest OSes when the host is also 64-bit, support for SATA Native Command Queuing for improved performance, and support for VHD disk images as used by other virtualisation software. Other new or improved features include the adoption of Qt4 in place of Qt3, a native Leopard UI for Mac OS X hosts, changes to Host Interface Networking, support for Nested Paging on AMD CPUs, and fixes for certain networking, shared folder and peripheral issues. What's the difference between the open and closed source versions, and how much is a support subscription? Please read on. |
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