I’ve just installed the newly released Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 on my MacBook Pro.

Here some of the new features :

• 64 bits guest support (64 bits host only)
• New native Leopard user interface on MacOS 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
• Host Interface Networking on Solaris 10 hosts
• Support for Nested Paging on modern AMD-V CPUs (major performance gain)
• Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)
• Clipboard integration for OS/2 Guests
• Support for VHD images
• Created separate SDK component featuring a new Python programming interface on Linux and Solaris hosts

You can download VirtualBox 2.0 for free now !

Here’s a screen shot of my desktop running OpenSolaris 2008.05 as the guest OS in Seamless mode.

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