Oracle has released the first beta for what will become version 3.2.0 of its open source VirtualBox desktop virtualisation application for x86 hardware, adding a number of new features like support for Mac OS X guests and re-branding it as Oracle VM VirtualBox

Use virtualization software? Check out VirtualBox 2.1, which adds some exciting new features: Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems. Testing a 64-bit desktop is now much easier thanks to VirtualBox supporting 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts. It's pretty impressive that this is even possible!

Oracle today released VirtualBox 4.1, a new major release. Introducing VM clones, this mean the ability to clone virtual machines via the GUI and VBoxManage.virtualbox the New Advanced wizard for creating new virtual disks and virtual disk copy also for 64-bit memory limit is up to 1 TB.

The latest version of VirtualBox delivers some compelling new features, including support for live migration and branched snapshots. Migration capabilities reflect VirtualBox’s potential for ascending into the enterprise arena.

One week after the first beta, VirtualBox released a second beta version of 3.0 which comes with numerous bux fixes, improved performances and fixes for SMP guests.

Changes since VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1:

If you use LVM volumes for your VirtualBox VMs, you can create backups and clones of a running VM without shutting it down. This tutorial shows just that: using LVM snapshots to create backups and clones of running VirtualBox VMs without downtime.

Last spring, the world changed forever when VirtualBox implemented support for 3D acceleration in Windows and Linux guests.  I have a tendency to be behind the curve on world-changing events, so I didn't found time to play with this new feature until a few days ago.  But what I found made me really happy.  Read on for the details.

My favorite virtualization program has been updated! 64-bit hosts, VMWare support, and raw disk support are the biggest features.

Measures to support the power saving mechanisms of AMD graphics chips, network code optimisations for multi-core processors, features for de-fragmenting the working memory and an improved support of the power management and turbo features offered by modern processors are among the highlights of the new kernel version