First Oracle branded VirtualBox Released, Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2

By Martin Kaba • May 19th, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Oracle just announced the release of the latest version of VirtualBox. “The VirtualBox team today released a significant new version of Oracle VM VirtualBox(TM), its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. VirtualBox 3.2, the first Oracle branded release since the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc by Oracle Corp. earlier this year, contains many innovative new features [...]

Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.0 beta 2

By Martin Kaba • May 11th, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Oracle has released a second beta of upcoming VirtualBox 3.2.0, the open source desktop virtualisation application for x86 hardware. Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.0 considered a major update includes several new features, fixed items and addresses a number of regressions in beta 1. Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.0 beta 2 adds Java bindings, it restores Ubuntu Lucid [...]

Easy Testing of Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 with TestDrive

By Martin Kaba • Mar 19th, 2010 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

Ubuntu ‘Lucid Lynx’ 10.04 has just been released, if you want to give it a quick try, with little or no hassle, then do it the TestDrive way. It simply downloads the latest working ISO and turns it into a virtual machine. So if you’ve got VirtualBox installed on your current working Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.10, [...]

Get Google’s Android Platform on Your PC

By Martin Kaba • Jan 20th, 2010 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Open-Source

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

By Martin Kaba • Dec 1st, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

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 machines [...]

VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 1 released

By Martin Kaba • Nov 12th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

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 (live migration), [...]

VirtualBox 3.0.6 Maintenance Release

By Martin Kaba • Sep 11th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

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 than usual, Guest Additions to [...]

VirtualBox 3.0.4 Improves Stability and Performance

By Martin Kaba • Aug 25th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

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

By Martin Kaba • Jul 1st, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

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 [...]