Get Google’s Android Platform on Your PC
A port of Google’s Android platform is now available for your x86 (32-bit) architecture PC. It is called Android-x86, and has a download-able ISO file you can grab and burn into a Live CD Linux distribution, this means you don’t have to install – with the ISO file you can run it via VirtualBox – [...]
VirtualBox 3.1.0 comes with Teleportation (live migration) and 2D Video Acceleration Support for Windows guest
For windows, Linux and Mac: Not long after the beta release, Sun Microsystems has released version 3.1.0 of the open source visualization application VirtualBox. As already explained in the beta release VirtualBox 3.1.0 is a major update that brings Teleportation (aka live migration) to VirtualBox. This makes it possible to transfer a running virtual [...]
VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 1 released
For Windows, Mac and Linux: Sun Microsystem has released the beta version of VirtualBox 3.1. Given that VirtualBox 3.1 is going to be a major update, this beta is a useful way to evaluate all the new features that might be present in the VirtualBox 3.1 final.
Virtualbox 3.1 beta comes with; Teleportation [...]
VirtualBox 3.0.6 Maintenance Release
Sun Microsystems has released a maintenance update of its open source virtualisation application VirtualBox 3.0. VirtualBox 3.0.6 includes many bugs fixes and performance improvements.
There are fixes for; Mac OS X hosts that prevents password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard, Linux/Solaris hosts to correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys [...]
VirtualBox 3.0.4 Improves Stability and Performance
VirtualBox 3.0.4 is a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.0 with Gaming-Level Graphics released about 2 months ago. The changelog of VirtualBox 3.0.4 is a long list of adds and fixes;
VirtualBox 3.0 with Gaming-Level Graphics Released
Virtualbox 3.0, “a major update introducing Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) in virtual machines as well as much improved 3D support” is now available.
You were advised not to install VirtualBox 3.0 beta on a production PC, it is now time to get on your production machine VirtualBox 3.0’s OpenGL support for Windows, Linux, and Solaris guest machines, [...]
VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1 Released
For Windows, Mac OS X, Linux: Desktop virtualization application, VirtualBox announced the release of a major update, VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1.
New features added in this major update include:
- Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)
- Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental)
- Support for OpenGL [...]
Free Ways to approach Ubuntu from Windows
For Windows Users: Apart the rhetoric that Linux is not Windows, how can one gradually get used to this different way of conceiving an operating system? Ubuntu has many killer applications Windows users can benefit from. If you’re stuck in your Windows sphere and do not intend moving out – no problem, it is understandable, [...]
Open Source Titbits of the Week
Linux Titbits is a summary of powerful posts on Linux in the blogsphere; in other words post I would have loved to do myself.
-> Get a more productive LInux Desktop by lifehacker, is a guide that says -> you can build a better Windows-Linux dual-boot system, or put Windows and Linux side-by-side with VirtualBox.
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