Oliver Erlewein on January 4th, 2009

I just have to blog about this. VirtualBox has just become awesome. The update 2.1 has added support for VMware images and it SO works! I didn’t think this would be so easy. Just create a new VM and mount the VMware vmdk. Done! For me that was always the critical issue with VirtualBox. At [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on December 26th, 2008

Just a gentle reminder that a new version of the truly great Sun virtualisation software’s out. It’s VirtualBox 2.1.0. The ChangeLog is here and there’s lots of important new stuff. 64-bit support on 32-bit guest OSes (not so hot for me) 3D support (getting warmer) Better Windows (who cares?!) and Linux networking support doing away [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on September 5th, 2008

My favourite virtualization app has gone into another round. Get the new version 2.0 here. I’ve been on version 1.6 (Ubuntu 8.04.1) for a while now and must say it is a good and stable product for desktop virtualization. It works on all platforms (Mac, Linux, Solaris, Windows,…).

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