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Berlin, Germany,
04.09.2008, 15:48
 

VirtualBox 2.0.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available (Announce)

Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox (also known as "Sun xVM VirtualBox") version 2.0.0 on 04 September 2008.

Home page: http://www.virtualbox.org/
Download: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Major changes:
? 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)
? New native Leopard user interface on Mac OS X hosts
? The GUI was converted from Qt3 to Qt4 with many visual improvements
? New-version notifier
? Guest property information interface
? Host Interface Networking on Mac OS X hosts
? New Host Interface Networking on Solaris hosts
? Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD CPUs (major performance gain)
? Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)
? Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing
raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)
? Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests
? Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface
on Linux and Solaris hosts
? Support for VHD disk images
All changes: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
Press release: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-09/sunflash.20080904.1.xml

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CZ,
05.09.2008, 01:00

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VirtualBox 2.0.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available

Hm, still crappy (mouse, arrow keys in DN, VESA)...

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Berlin, Germany,
06.09.2008, 17:35

@ RayeR
 

VirtualBox 2.0.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available

> Hm, still crappy (mouse, arrow keys in DN, VESA)...

Sorry, I mainly use Virtual PC or Bochs.

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CZ,
08.09.2008, 14:58

@ rr
 

VirtualBox 2.0.0 (Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris) available

> > Hm, still crappy (mouse, arrow keys in DN, VESA)...
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> Sorry, I mainly use Virtual PC or Bochs.

OK but I had some tamption to try VB again, version 2.0.0 seemed to be a big jump forward from 1.6.x I had tested but from my point of view no changes.

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