New Version Of The PC Emulator VirtualBox
September 4, 2008 by Hawq
Well it’s not been long between versions for this has it? and according to the news we have some major changes in this release so let’s see what’s been done to this PC emulator shall we?
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
- 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)
- New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts
- The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements
- New-version notifier
- Guest property information interface
- Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts
- New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts
- Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)
- Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)
- Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)
- Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests
- Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts
- Support for VHD disk images
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: VT-x fixes
- AHCI/SATA: improved performance
- GUI: keyboard fixes
- Linux installer: properly uninstall the package even if unregistering the DKMS module fails
- Linux additions: the guest screen resolution is properly restored
- Network: added support for jumbo frames (> 1536 bytes)
- Shared Folders: fixed guest crash with Windows Media Player 11
- Mac OS X: Ctrl+Left mouse click doesn’t simulate a right mouse click in the guest anymore. Use Hostkey+Left for a right mouse click emulation. (bug #1766)
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VirtualBox Installer For Windows (32.5 MiB, 20 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox Installer For Windows 64bit (36.4 MiB, 11 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Mac OSX (36.6 MiB, 13 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Solaris (32.6 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Solaris 64bit (33.4 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Fedora 7 (29.9 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Fedora 7 64bit (30.4 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Fedora 8 (30 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Fedora 8 64 bit (30.4 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Fedora 9 (29.8 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Fedora 9 64bit (30.2 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Mandriva 2007.1 (20.9 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Mandriva 2008.0 (29.3 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
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VirtualBox For openSUSE 10.3 64bit (20.1 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For PCLinuxOS 2007 (20.8 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (34.2 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (33.8 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64bit (34.3 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (20.1 MiB, 15 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 64bit (33.1 MiB, 10 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Debian 4.0 (33.5 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Debian 4.0 64bit (33.7 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Debian 5.0 (28.9 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
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VirtualBox For Debian 3.1 (33.8 MiB, 9 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
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VirtualBox ForUbuntu 6.06 64bit (34.7 MiB, 16 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Ubuntu 7.10 (31.3 MiB, 31 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Ubuntu 7.10 64bit (31 MiB, 28 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Ubuntu 8.04 (30.9 MiB, 30 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Ubuntu 8.04 64bit (30.9 MiB, 29 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
VirtualBox For Xandros Desktop 4.1 (33.7 MiB, 17 Downloads) - Version 2.0.0
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