Oracle Builds Upon VirtualBox With 3.2 Beta

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Oracle Builds Upon VirtualBox With 3.2 Beta

While Oracle has yet to put out OpenSolaris 2010.03 and they have disbanded other open-source projects formerly under Sun's umbrella, they are moving full-steam ahead with Virtualbox. This morning Oracle has put out the VirtualBox 3.2 Beta, which re-brands itself as Oracle VM VirtualBox...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODE5NA

[Kano]

It has new artwork, but something was forgotten

grep ^Name /usr/share/applications/virtualbox.desktop
Name=Sun VirtualBox

[SkyHiRider]

Nice find Grep is such a great tool, can dig up almost anything enywhere

Would be a real shame if Oracle killed VirtualBox, as it's the #1 OS testing app for me.

[wswartzendruber]

Does anyone know if Oracle will move ahead with having video RAM guest-managed?

[liangsuilong]

Memeory ballooning is quite good, but where is virtual disk ballooning? Now VDI just can increase disk size dynamically but not decrease dynamically.

When can we get GUI front-end to operate teleportation? And teleportation with block device migration sounds interesting.

[Harsh]

Experimental support for Mac OS X guests

Is this legal? I always thought Apple prohibited use of OSX in virtual machines?

[FunkyRider]

Is this legal? I always thought Apple prohibited use of OSX in virtual machines?

This is a good functionality, you can't sue me just because I am capable of running you. I don't distribute your software, nor do I personally run it. So Apple can't do nothing about it.

[R3MF]

does virtual box support the IOMMOMU (sp?) found in AMD's chipsets?

[NoEffex]

I heard the "pics or it didn't happen" by some people..so yeah.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A8QdKT3aqc

Demo of it running OS X 10.6