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Archive of posts filed under the Virtualbox category.

Running Windows applications natively and seamlessly on Linux with SeamlessRDP and Virtualbox or KVM

This guide will go through how to install Virtualbox or kvm and running applications inside a virtual Windows XP machine and display them seamlessly on your X-based desktop.

Sun releases xVM VirtualBox 2.1.4

Yesterday Sun released the second maintenance release for VirtualBox 2.1
See the Changelog for more details.
Actually my Windows VM has been running smoothly since I upgraded to 2.1.2 but as usual there is a bunch of bugfixes in this release.
Download it here.

Sun releases xVM Virtualbox 2.1.2

Sun has released xVM Virtualbox 2.1.2.
The changelog shows a lot of
improvements. I am especially delighted to see this entry
NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)
this one bug has really been … bugging me since it made the virtual
machine almost unusable.
Also, this release adds official support for Windows 7.
At least one defect remains. When running more than [...]

Sun releases xVM VirtualBox 2.1

On 17-12-2008 Sun released a new version of VirtualBox, version 2.1.0.
Looking at the changelog there are some real significant improvements – these are the ones that make me able to ditch VMware Workstation completely:

Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems
Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL
Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots
New Host Interface Networking implementations for [...]