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Sun xVM VirtualBox

VirtualBox is an absolutely free virtualization product for x86 platform. It supports both 32bit and 64bit architectures and can be used in both server and desktop virtualization.

VirtualBox supports a standard set of features, including the following:

• Unique design - modular and lightweight
• All VM configuration is stored in XML files
• Solaris, Windows and Linux are supported as both host and guest OSes, Mac OS X is supported as host OS.
• Performance: Guest software to optimize the guest VM performance for Linux and Windows
• Networking: Flexible virtual networking (you can even to PXE boot over NAT)
• Storage: SATA support
• Storage: you can use VMware-created disk images (VMDK files)
• Shared folders - seamlessly transfer files between host OS and guest VMs

Current version: 1.6.2

See also:

• VirtualBox - official website
• xVM VirtualBox 1.6
• Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6.2