VirtualBox 3.0.8 and 3.1

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  1. RHochstenbach

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    I've just attended a presentation by Sun Microsystems regarding VirtualBox. There are some new features. At this moment, VirtualBox 3.0.8 is available.

    New features of 3.0.8
    - 64-bit Guest Operating Systems on a 32-bit Host. Limited to the AMD Hardware Virtualization (AMD-V).
    - More than 2 TB of Virtual Storage
    - IPSec over NAT
    - Host-only Networking (some very complicated networking thing)

    VirtualBox 3.1 is going to be the next major release, which is going to support EFI. If they can get HFS+ working in the EFI, they can run Mac OS X as a Guest OS. It can't be promised, and IF it should work it's only going to be OS X Server, due to licensing stuff.

    Other features for 3.1
    - HD Video Acceleration
    - More reliable network infrastructure
    - Faster I/O interface

    VirtualBox Web Console
    A new feature that is currently available as experimental on Google Code, is VirtualBox Web Console. It allows other computers to access VirtualBox on a computer via the web browser to launch existing Guests and add new Guests. It uses Python on the Host and AJAX in the Web Browser.

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    With Microsoft Remote Desktop you can now connect to a Web Console enabled Host, to remotely control any guest Operating System.
     

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