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VirtualBox 3.2 released

[Posted May 19, 2010 by corbet]

From:  VirtualBox announcements <vbox-announce-b66qoMuAxM7KZowt4tI+sA-AT-public.gmane.org>
To:  vbox-announce-b66qoMuAxM7KZowt4tI+sA-AT-public.gmane.org
Subject:  Announcement: VirtualBox 3.2 released
Date:  Tue, 18 May 2010 23:50:21 +0200

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 which deliver further significant improvements in
performance, power and supported guest operating system platforms.

Read more in the attached bulletin!

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/3.2.0/

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 forum topic:

  http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=31086

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

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VirtualBox 3.2 released

Posted May 19, 2010 14:50 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link] (1 responses)

The most important new feature (the first one listed) is that it is now owned by Oracle?

VirtualBox 3.2 released

Posted May 19, 2010 15:02 UTC (Wed) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

As I read it, it is not that it is "now owned by Oracle", but that it has _changed its name_ (granted, what has changed seems to be only a longer version of the name which nobody actually seems to use).

A project changing its name sure merits being the first item on the changelog. It is something you do not want people to miss (putting it in the middle or near the end of the changelog risks people getting bored before getting to that line and skipping it without noticing).

VirtualBox 3.2 released

Posted May 19, 2010 15:35 UTC (Wed) by xnox (guest, #63320) [Link] (4 responses)

I thought Mac OS X EULA prohibited running Mac OS X in VM or non-apple branded hardware?

VirtualBox 3.2 released

Posted May 19, 2010 15:42 UTC (Wed) by zeekec (subscriber, #2414) [Link]

And when has that stopped people...

VirtualBox 3.2 released

Posted May 19, 2010 16:00 UTC (Wed) by rahvin (guest, #16953) [Link]

They didn't enable hardware hacks, without approved mac hardware it won't run, it's in the release notes.

VirtualBox 3.2 released

Posted May 19, 2010 16:18 UTC (Wed) by yokem_55 (subscriber, #10498) [Link]

Fortunately Mac hardware can run windows and Linux. So, if for some reason you want to, you can run MacOSX in VirtualBox on your shiny Mac Hardware while it is running another operating system, without violating the letter of the EULA. How long this will fly given the obvious problem of non-mac hardware running VirtualBox running OSX I don't know. But it will work for now.

VirtualBox 3.2 released

Posted May 19, 2010 16:19 UTC (Wed) by Janne (guest, #40891) [Link]

Which is why you could use Virtualbox in a Mac to run virtualized MacOS.

VirtualBox 3.2 released

Posted May 20, 2010 2:31 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Still no USB support in the GPL edition :(


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