Sun releases today the second generation of its desktop virtualization platform, VirtualBox, acquired by innotek in February.
This new version introduces a few but important capabilities like:
- support for 64-bit guest OSes (Microsoft Windows Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5)
- support for AMD RVI
- support for Microsoft VHD virtual disk format
- new interface for Apple Mac OS edition (native 10.5 Leopard GUI)
- Python API (for Solaris and Linux hosts only)
Download it free of charge here.
The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.