For some years now, InfoWorld has been assessing open source applications and naming "best of" winners in its Best of Open Source Software (Bossie) Awards program. The report of this year's winners includes VirtualBox as well as an informative history of open source applications and their evolution. The article notes that "open source" does not mean the same thing to everyone in the field, citing the examples of MySQL and Android to make its point.
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The very first comment Frank Mehnert directs to the readers of his posting "Announcement: VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 Released" is, "Please do NOT use this VirtualBox Beta release on production machines! A VirtualBox Beta release should be considered a bleeding-edge release meant for early evaluation and testing purposes." That said, he provides a link for downloading the binaries, as well as for reporting any problems with the Beta.
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A few tips on how to install Solaris 10 OS as a virtual machine under an Oracle VM 2.2 environment have been posted by Honglin Su on Oracle's Virtualization blog. All of the steps are accompanied by screen snippets so readers can compare their results with his. He also includes links to downloads and documentation throughout the blog, helping ease the process.
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With 20 million total downloads and some 40,000 downloads per day, Sun VirtualBox has become a major, general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. A significant new release, VirtualBox 3.1, improves performance and adds significant new features, including 'teleportation' which is the live migration of a VM session from one host to another (e.g. from an Intel-based Mac Desktop to an AMD server then to an Intel-based laptop running Windows 7).
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