Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0

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    xVM VirtualBox 3.0 is a Type 2 Hypervisor for Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac. VirtualBox is ideally suited for desktop virtualization applications but also has some nice features for prototyping and developing enterprise-quality applications and environments.

    Read more about VirtualBox at ZDNet Tech Broiler.

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    Most of what has changed in VirtualBox 3.0 from 2.x is under the hood. Various optimizations for the newer processors have been added as well as the ability for guest OSes to use up to 32 vCPUs. Here is the initial setup screen for a guest OS, in this case Windows 7 RC 64-Bit.

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    Here's where RAM allocation for Virtual Guests take place.

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    Virtual Disk Creation.

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    Virtual Disk Storage can be either dynamic or fixed. With dynamic, the virtual disk file expands to fit the size of the data, whereas with fixed, the size is pre-allocated. Dynamic trades off storage space required at the cost of performance.

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    Here is where the size of the virtual disk is specified.

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    Virtual Disk creation summary.

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    Virtual Disk confirmation screen

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    Some of the new processor options in VirtualBox 3.0. 32 Virtual CPUs per guest are now supported.

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    Virtual Hosts can have up to 4 virtual network adapters connected to up to 4 different VLANs physically attached to the host machine.

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    Some of the new virtual motherboard tweaking options

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    Here's the Windows 7 installation screen. You can boot from physical CD/DVD media or from a mounted .ISO file.

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    Here are the Guest Additions which improve mouse pointer integration with the Host OS as well as improve I/O and network connectivity, and the ability to share virtual folders with the host.

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    Vista/Windows 7 UAC prompts to install the Windows Guest Additions. There are different guest additions for Solaris and Linux distributions.

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    Guest Additions Installer

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    Guest Additions Installing.

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    Windows 7 RC virtualized in full glory in VirtualBox 3.0

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    OpenSolaris 2009.06 64-bit running in Fedora 11 64-bit under VirtualBox 3.

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Virtual Disk creation summary.

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