免费的虚拟机 VirtualBox 2.1.0.41146 发布

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对于VMWare、Virtual PC这些虚拟机软件，可能大家都比较熟悉。VirtualBox是德国一家软件公司InnoTek所开发的虚拟系统软件，它不仅具有丰富的特色，而且性能也很优异。更是开源的，成为了一个发布在GPL许可之下的自由软件。


VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

Version 2.1.0 (2008-12-17)
This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts
Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see Section 1.6, “64-bit guests”)
Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see Section 1.2, “Software vs. hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V)”))
Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see Section 4.8, “Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL)”)
Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see Section 5.1, “Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI”)
Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see Section 5.2, “Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD)”)
New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)
New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: significant performance improvements for VT-x (real mode execution)
VMM: support for hardware breakpoints (VT-x and AMD-V only; bug #477)
VMM: VGA performance improvements for VT-x and AMD-V
VMM: Solaris and OpenSolaris guest performance improvements for AMD-V (Barcelona family CPUs only)
VMM: fixed guru meditation while running the Dr. Web virus scanner (software virtualization only; bug #1439)
VMM: deactivate VT-x and AMD-V when the host machine goes into suspend mode; reactivate when the host machine resumes (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux hosts; bug #1660)
VMM: fixed guest hangs when restoring VT-x or AMD-V saved states/snapshots
VMM: fixed guru meditation when executing a one byte debug instruction (VT-x only; bug #2617)
VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (VT-x)
VMM: disallow mixing of software and hardware virtualization execution in general (bug #2404)
VMM: fixed black screen when booting OS/2 1.x (AMD-V only)
GUI: pause running VMs when the host machine goes into suspend mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)
GUI: resume previously paused VMs when the host machine resumes after suspend (Windows & Mac OS X hosts)
GUI: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine's battery reaches critical level (Windows hosts)
GUI: properly restore the position of the selector window when running on the compiz window manager
GUI: properly restore the VM in seamless mode (2.0 regression)
GUI: warn user about non optimal memory settings
GUI: structure operating system list according to family and version for improved usability
GUI: predefined settings for QNX guests
IDE: improved ATAPI passthrough support
Networking: added support for up to 8 Ethernet adapters per VM
Networking: fixed issue where a VM could lose connectivity after a reboot
iSCSI: allow snapshot/diff creation using local VDI file
iSCSI: improved interoperability with iSCSI targets
Graphics: fixed handling of a guest video memory which is not a power of two (bug #2724)
VBoxManage: fixed bug which prevented setting up the serial port for direct device access.
VBoxManage: added support for VMDK and VHD image creation
VBoxManage: added support for image conversion (VDI/VMDK/VHD/RAW)
Solaris hosts: added IPv6 support between host and guest when using host interface networking
Mac OS X hosts: added ACPI host power status reporting
API: redesigned storage model with better generalization
API: allow attaching a hard disk to more than one VM at a time
API: added methods to return network configuration information of the host system
Shared Folders: performance and stability fixes for Windows guests (Microsoft Office Applications)

官方下载页面：

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

happysky76

没有用过，哪位用过的说说怎么样？

最远的流星

原帖由 JAUAN 于 2008-12-18 16:09 发表
我用过，在windows平台上非常好用，效果比vmware要好，速度很快，操作方便。

linux平台用过，配置不像 vmware那么容易。如果是windows平台建议采用vbox。执行效率非常高，楼上说的一定没有测试过。

看过一篇评测.

确实说windows平台上Vbox效率很高.
VM功能稳定性十分强悍,但体积也十分的强大.
如果不追求太专业,用Vbox很合适了.

wind

vbox网络配置比较麻烦

blackwhite

原帖由 wind 于 2008-12-18 22:51 发表
vbox网络配置比较麻烦

不知道你有什么特殊的要求，反正安装好了，就可以上网了。
sun收购了这个公司。我喜欢这个虚拟机，因为免费。