Weekly Edition
Return to the Development page
| ||||||||||||||||
VirtualBox 3.1 released
Today Sun released VirtualBox 3.1, a major update introducing the
following major new features:
* Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session from
one host to another
* VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of
only the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots
as well ("branched snapshots")
* 2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video hardware
for overlay stretching and color conversion
* More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to
arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such
drive
* The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is running
* Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher
* Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests (VT-x and
AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging)
* Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface)
* Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net)
See the Changelog at
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
for a complete list of all changes. You can download the binaries here:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.1.0/
We would like to thank all our Beta testers for their valuable feedback.
All changes since VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 3 are listed in this corresponding
forum topic:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25239
Kind regards,
Frank
--
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert
Sitz der Gesellschaft:
Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten
Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028
Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
_______________________________________________
vbox-announce mailing list
vbox-announce-b66qoMuAxM7KZowt4tI+sA@public.gmane.org
http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-announce
(Log in to post comments)
Nice new features Posted Dec 1, 2009 17:42 UTC (Tue) by djf_jeff (subscriber, #62173) [Link]
The new snapshots features are a welcome addition. I always missed them compared to VMware Workstation. It facilitate the use of a VM to make testing easier.
Nice new features Posted Dec 2, 2009 6:52 UTC (Wed) by eduperez (guest, #11232) [Link]
Yes; and with live migration, VirtualBox is becoming a serious alternative to VMware Server.
Nice new features Posted Dec 2, 2009 14:55 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
You mean: the "full" version, as opposed to the "free" version.
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions
Nice new features Posted Dec 3, 2009 2:00 UTC (Thu) by ldarby (subscriber, #41318) [Link]
It's not going to become a competitor to VMware until they split it into a client/server archtecture, and doesn't appear to "hang" until you click Ok to the bloody annoying new version dialog boxes.
Nice new features Posted Dec 3, 2009 14:53 UTC (Thu) by dmaxwell (guest, #14010) [Link]
VMs can be run without using the VirtualBox frontend and they can be run without the end-user UI so those messages won't come up.
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#vboxhead...
You can also start machines using only an SDL window locally which again facilitates usage where UI dialogs get in the way. Additionally the frontend can be told not to check for updates.
As usual all this information is available in the manual.
Nice new features Posted Dec 3, 2009 19:22 UTC (Thu) by ldarby (subscriber, #41318) [Link]
Thanks, I'll RTFM next time, but I still think modal dailogs in general are a broken concept.
|
||||||||||||||||