VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).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), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
What's new:
- OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55)
- Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User Manual page 88)
- Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates
- Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB
- VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines
- USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)
- Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
- Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests
- OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70)
- Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services
News source: Official website
Download: VirtualBox 2.2.0
View: Change log
you're kidding, right?
He actually said it... check wikipedia for virtualisation...
Have you checked the advanced network settings and made sure "cable connected" was enabled?
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/3655
Some users are reporting that the zip is broken now though, so if you need it and it doesn't work for you, PM me and I'll send you a copy.
Setting up shared folders crashes the GUI consistently for me, but adding them by editing the VM's XML file worked like a charm.
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