VirtualBox
Sun xVM VirtualBox, formerly innotek VirtualBox, is a family of x86 virtualization products for enterprise and home use.
| Tags | Operating Systems |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv2 Other |
Recent releases
- 11 Jul 2009 18:09
Changes: This is a maintenance release. It fixes several minor bugs and regressions.
- 03 Jul 2009 12:13
Changes: Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs is now supported on VT-x and AMD-V. Experimental Direct3D 8/9 support was added for Windows guests. Support for OpenGL 2.0 was added. Many bugs were fixed.
- 30 May 2009 10:02
Changes: Many minor bugs were fixed.
- 09 Apr 2009 20:43
Changes: Support for many new features was added, such as OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export, host-only networking mode, experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts, shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests, and OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests. Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high-context switching rates were made. The memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts was raised to 16GB. VT-x/AMD-V are now enabled by default for newly created virtual machines. Many other enhancements were made and bugs were fixed.
- 19 Feb 2009 21:18
Changes: Many stability and performance improvements were made. Furthermore, many bugfixes and integration improvements were made.
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Recent commentsRe: License clarity
You're right. I just notice that too, but looking at Linux build instructions (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20build%20instructions), especially if you use debian or ubuntu, it is not difficult at all to produce a binary version from the code.
Although the opensource version is a stripped down version of the proprietary licensed one, still during a short test it seems this software is pretty usable.
I'm looking forward for further development of this software.
I Love VirtualBox
VirtualBox is wonderful and a complete life-saver. I'm using it to run a Fedora Linux virtual machine on top of my Mandriva Linux (Cooker) system, and it works very well. While it is still not very feature-rich, it is still usable.
And best of all - it's free and open-source.
License clarity
Just so everyone knows, the Freshmeat page says that this program is GPL'd, but in fact that's only true for the source download listed.
The binaries are covered under a different, non-free-software (but free-of-cost) license. You can read about the details at by looking for "The VirtualBox binaries are available free of charge for personal and evaluation use. By downloading from the below links, you agree to the terms and conditions set forth by the VirtualBox Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL) (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL)."; at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads).