Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6.0

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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). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh 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.

Major new features added:

• The new Sun livery
  
• Solaris and Mac OS X host support
  
• Seamless windowing for Linux and Solaris guests
  
• Guest Additions for Solaris
  
• A webservice API
  
• SATA hard disk (AHCI) controller
  
• Experimental Physical Address Extension (PAE) support
  

Changes:

• GUI: added accessibility support (508)
  
• GUI: VM session information dialog
  
• VBoxHeadless: renamed from VBoxVRDP
  
• VMM: reduced host CPU load of idle guests
  
• VMM: many ?xes for VT-x/SVM hardware-supported virtualization
  
• ATA/IDE: better disk geometry compatibility with VMware images
  
• ATA/IDE: virtualize an AHCI controller
  
• Storage: better write optimization, prevent images from growing unnecessarily.
  
• Network: support PXE booting with NAT
  
• Network: ?xed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for Nexenta guests
  
• NAT: improved builtin DHCP server (implemented DHCPNAK response)
  
• NAT: port forwarding stopped when restoring the VM from a saved state
  
• NAT: make subnet con?gurable
  
• XPCOM: moved to libxml2
  
• XPCOM: ?xed VBoxSVC autostart race
  
• Audio: SoundBlaster 16 emulation
  
• USB: ?xed problems with USB 2.0 devices
  
• MacOS X: ?xed seamless mode
  
• MacOS X: better desktop integration, several look’n’feel ?xes
  
• MacOS X: switched to Quartz2D framebuffer
  
• MacOS X: added support for shared folders
  
• MacOS X: added support for clipboard integration
  
• Solaris: added host audio playback support (experimental)
  
• Solaris: made it possible to run VirtualBox from non-global zones
  
• Shared Folders: made them work for NT4 guests
  
• Shared Folders: many bug?xes to improve stability
  
• Seamless windows: added support for Linux guests
  
• Linux installer: support DKMS for compiling the kernel module
  
• Linux host: compatibility ?xes with Linux 2.6.25
  
• Windows host: support for USB devices has been signi?cantly improved; many additional USB devices now work
  
• Windows Additions: automatically install AMD PCNet drivers on Vista guests
  
• Linux additions: several ?xes, experimental support for RandR 1.2
  
• Linux additions: compatibility ?xes with Linux 2.6.25
  

Download: VirtualBox 1.6

View: Change Log

Homepage: VirtualBox

Link: Lunarsoft