Oracle VirtualBox 3.2

[steronius]

Sun is now Oracle.
VirtualBox 3.2 released with significant improvements.
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/News

[lemon-tree]

Reading through that I found this:

New Mac OS X – On Apple hardware only, support for creating virtual machines running Mac OS X.

All I can say is wow: I have been waiting ages for something like this. Perhaps I won't need to keep my Tiger machine around any more with that update. There are some pretty massive other updates that look pretty cool, like multi-monitor support.

New Multiple Virtual Monitors – VirtualBox 3.2 now supports multi-headed virtual machines with up to 8 virtual monitors attached to a guest. Each virtual monitor can be a host window, or be mapped to the hosts physical monitors;

[steronius]

I especially appreciate the Memory Ballooning. I was able to open multiple VM's today of which I could not previously on my 2GB windoze machine.

[DeadBattery]

I use VirtualBox on Linux to run XP somtimes. It works very nicely, as long as you install the additional package. (I forget what it is called)

[lemon-tree]

Do you mean the Guest Additions? Allows stuff like unified desktop etc.

[DeadBattery]

Yep, that's what I meant.
Don't know why I forgot it.

[Smith6612]

VirtualBox is a very useful program. I use it for testing stuff on Linux before actually applying it to working machines. I also use it for experimenting with programs in Windows. One useful thing about having a high end machine is that I have Hardware Virtualization support, giving me support for multiple CPU cores (My i7 has 4 Hyperthreaded cores) and large amounts of system memory being pooled into the virtual machine (I have 8GB).