VirtualBox 1.6
VirtualBox is a virtualization management application that was developed by innotek until Sun Microsystems acquired the software development company in February 2008.
You can read up on the Changelog here. In a nutshell, VirtualBox 1.6’s new highlights include Web service API, a SATA hard disk controller, experimental support for Physical Address Extensions (PAE) and a new guest addition set for the Solaris operating system.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD. Feel free to grab a copy of the application, and do catch up on additional reading while you are waiting for your download to complete.
Tags: Sun Microsystems, VirtualBox
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May 6th, 2008 at 19:28
VirtualBox 1.6 is great.
I’ve been running Ubuntu and WinXP since Virtualbox 1.4 and it is really a no-frills lightweight hypervisor application.
Both Virtual Machines run fine and lightweight. If you’ve been on the fence thinking whether to give Linux a shot, why not grab VirtualBox and install Ubuntu on it.
Its been great
May 6th, 2008 at 19:33
I would agree with that. Virtualbox is a lightweight application that you can work on without devoting too much resources to it. I even have it running on my notebook as well.