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 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) – [...]
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. [...]
xVM VirtualBox 2.0 comes with support for your 64-bit Operating Systems
Sun Microsystems, owners of one of the leading desktop virtualization software VirtualBox announced the release of version 2.0 of xVM VirtualBox. With this new version you can now run your 64bit operating systems like Windows Vista, Red Hat Enterprise, FreeBSD 5, or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and many more. Amongst the many innovations, this [...]
VirtualBox Exploit – How to Share your USB key between Ubuntu and Windows
A simple way to share your files between your Ubuntu Desktop and Windows is by using Samba file sharing. It creates a common “workgroup” with Windows that makes file transfer between these two systems easy to carry out. Now, if you use VirtualBox (the open source answer to visualization, and also direct competitor to the [...]
The VMware Server 2.0 Beta is now available
VMware a leading company when it comes to virtual platforms released lately the beta of it’s next server platform. This servers gives the possibility to run an operating system on another- (some sought of WINE but in a bigger way). You could run Windows on Ubuntu. Better still Ubuntu on Windows . The above mentioned [...]
