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Gleb Reys June 30, 2009 2 Comments

VirtualBox 3.0 Released!

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Right on time, the next major VirtualBox version is released – VirtualBox 3.0.0!

Major changes in VirtualBox 3.0

The two major improvements in VirtualBox 3.0 can be summed up like this:

  • multi-processor VMs – guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)
  • graphics improvements: Direct3D 8/9 (Windows guests only) and OpenGL 2.0 (Windows, Linux and Solaris guests)

Updated functionality in VirtualBox 3.0

There are, as always, quite a few bugfixes and new features. These ones seemed interesting to me, but be sure to check out the full VirtualBox 3.0 changelog:

  • VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only) – looks like there won't be a performance penalty for using IO-APIC anymore
  • VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client
  • Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and guest property lookup
  • USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints (Linux hosts only, will help with webcameras)
  • GUI: settings dialog changed – looks much better organized now, and obviously supports all the newly introduced features.

See also:

  • VirtualBox
  • More articles on Virtual Box
  • Changelog for VirtualBox 3.0

Filed Under: Sun Microsystems Tagged With: Sun Microsystems, sun virtualbox, sun xvm, virtualbox, xvm virtualbox

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Comments

  1. Scott says

    July 6, 2009 at 9:42 pm

    Is there an easy way to convert a Parallels VM for use with VirtualBox?

  2. Michael Tienken says

    October 18, 2009 at 11:36 pm

    Curious as to how this Desktop Virtualization product by Citrix (XenDesktop) compares to Virtual Box?

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