Tune into the Webinar for the latest on VirtualBox (VBox). Through an audio broadcast and slide presentation, Andy Hall, senior product manager at Sun Microsystems opens with a background on VBox and provides a product overview. He describes what is new in VBox, including networking modes and building a virtual appliance. Chatters are invited to ask questions as they move through the one-hour presentation and the session, and Hall closes the Webinar with a question and answer session.

In the opening, Hall provides insights in the technologies behind VBox, the development model and briefly discusses the community efforts that are taking place. He explains what is new about VBox primarily about GlassFish, which may appeal to listeners in particular due to its popularity. Hall discusses the possibility of packing VBox applications once finished and sharing them with colleagues or on the web.

To display this set up, Hall provides a screenshot example of a Mac host with the guests installed on top it, OpenSolaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Windows 2007. He also shows the VBox gooey window where you can create and launch your virtual machines.

"The virtual hardware that we present is pretty powerful hardware," said Hall.

Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart highlights in The Aquarium blog the broadcast, which may be viewed from several mediums including FlashVideo, MP3, and SlideCast. SlideCast makes it easy for viewers to listen in on topics interest and to review the presentation one slide at a time or to skip along as needed.

About VBox

VBox is virtualized software that you install on your existing host platform. Because it is not a "bare metal software" platform, it can be installed on top of Windows, Mac, Solaris, Linux etc. VBox can run on desktops, servers, and Sun Cloud as well, and VBox allows you to run multiple virtual machines at the same time. Hall differentiates between hosts and guests, for hosts are the operating systems you install VBox on top of discussed prior, and guests are the virtualized machines or the operating systems that install on your virtual machines.

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