Apr. 11, 2009
Just had the time to install VirtualBox 2.2.0 on my Mac and I am looking forward to testing the new host-only mode which made it into this release. This is something I have been using for quite a while in order to setup a number of systems on isolated networks by using loopback tun-devices. The new host-only mode should make this so much easier without the hassle of setting up dhcp etc. on the host system.
Some other cool features also made it into the release such as:
- OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export
- OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests
The complete Changelog is here http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
Posted by patrik in Virtualization | No Comments
Apr. 4, 2009
So, I recently got myself a MacBook. So far I have been impressed with lot’s of things! And then there some stuff that I obviously have been less impressed with. One of these things has been the migration from the Linux version to the Mac OS X of VirtualBox 2.1.4. Maybe I was naive to start with, thinking that hey VirtualBox exists on Linux and it also exists on Mac, then it should be a matter of copying the files over and I should be up and running! Well, well, well it wasn’t quite that simple. Looking back, I could probably have made things a lot easyer by shutting down all machines instead of moving them in their saved state.