Выпущена новая версия пакета VirtualBox от компании Sun Microsystems. Это семейство продуктов для любой архитектуры, представляющие собой средство для виртуализации как для корпоративных, так и домашних пользователей. В отличие от альтернативных разработок, данное решение распространяется как программное обеспечение с открытым исходным кодом. Программа работает в среде практически всех современных операционных систем, начиная с Windows и заканчивая Solaris с MacOS X, поддерживая при этом большое число гостевых ОС, среди которых: Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (с ядрами версий 2.4 и 2.6), OpenBSD, и прочие. Есть возможность выбора языка интерфейса, поддерживается русскоязычный интерфейс.
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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. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
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), 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.
Some of the features of VirtualBox are:- Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.
- Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.
- Guest Additions for Windows and Linux. VirtualBox has special software that can be installed inside Windows and Linux virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window).
- Shared folders. Like many other virtualization solutions, for easy data exchange between hosts and guests, VirtualBox allows for declaring certain host directories as "shared folders", which can then be accessed from within virtual machines.
VirtualBox практически не уступает подобным коммерческим разработкам (если не считать порой замедленной скорости работы). Имеются средства для работы с периферийными устройствами на основных ПК, возможно включение в сеть, удаленное управление, присутствуют средства для обмена файлами, а также специальные пакеты с ПО и драйверами для гостевых ОС, которые предназначены для повышения производительности. Для полноценной работы с VirtualBox необходимо при первом запуске зарегистрироваться, введя свое имя и адрес электронной почты.
Ключевые особенности:- Кроссплатформенность
- Модульность
- Поддержка USB 2.0, когда устройства хост-машины становятся доступными для гостевых ОС (только в проприетарной версии)
- Встроенный RDP-сервер, а также поддержка клиентских USB-устройств поверх протокола RDP (только в проприетарной версии)
- Экспериментальная поддержка образов жестких дисков VMDK/VMware
- Поддержка iSCSI (только в проприетарной версии)
- Поддержка виртуализации аудиоустройств
- Поддержка различных видов сетевого взаимодействия (NAT, Host Networking via Bridged, Internal)
- Поддержка дерева сохраненных состояний виртуальной машины (snapshots), к которым может быть произведен откат из любого состояния гостевой системы
- Поддержка Shared Folders для простого обмена файлами между хостовой и гостевой системами
VirtualBox 2.0.2 (released 2008-09-12)
- VMM: fixed inability to run more than one VM in parallel (AMD-V on CPUs with erratum 170 only; bug #2167)
- VMM: VT-x stability fixes (bug #2179 and others)
- VMM: fixed Linux 2.6.26+ kernel crashes (used by Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha, Fedora 10 Alpha; bug #1875)
- VMM: fixed 64 bits Linux 2.6.26 kernel crashes (Debian)
- VMM: fixed Vista (32 bits) guest crash during boot when PAE and NX are enabled (applied to 64 bits hosts with VT-x enabled only)
- VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crashes during boot (AMD-V; bug #2132)
- GUI: fixed crash when trying to release an inaccessible image in the virtual disk manager
- GUI: fixed invalid error message for a changed snapshot path even if that path wasn't changed (bug #2064)
- GUI: fixed crash when creating a new hard disk image (bug #2060)
- GUI: fixed crash when adding a hard disk in the VM settings (bug #2081)
- GUI: fixed a bug where VirtualBox isn't working with the new QGtkStyle plugin (bug #2066)
- GUI: fixed VM close dialog in seamless mode (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #2067)
- GUI: fixed standard menu entries for NLS versions (Mac OS X hosts only)
- GUI: disable the VT-x/AMD-V setting when it's not supported by the CPU (or on Mac OS X hosts)
- VBoxManage: fixed crash during internalcommands createrawvmdk (bug #2184)
- VBoxManage: fixed output of snapshot showvminfo (bug #698)
- Guest properties: added information about guest network interfaces (Windows guests only)
- Shared Folders: fixed regression that caused Windows guest crashes (bug #2055)
- API: fixed number of installed CPUs (Solaris hosts only)
- VRDP: allow a client to reconnect to an existing session on the VRDP server by dropping the existing connection (configurable and disabled by default; only relevant when multiconnection mode is disabled)
- VRDP: fixed an image repaint problem
- Linux hosts: fixed bug in vboxdrv.ko that could corrupt kernel memory and panic the kernel (bug #2078)
- Linux hosts: compile fixes for kernel module on Linux 2.6.27
- Mac OS X hosts: added Python support
- Additions: fixed a possible hang in HGCM communication after a VM reboot
- Windows additions: added support for Windows XP 64 bits (bug #2117)
- Linux additions: deactivate dynamic resizing on Linux guests with buggy X servers
- Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10 guests and Fedora 9 guests (dynamic resizing disabled for the latter) (bug #1854)
- Linux additions: added installer check for the system architecture
- Linux additions: fixed Xorg modules path for some Linux distributions (bug #2128)
- VMDK: be more liberal with ambiguous parts of the format specification and accept more format variants (bug #2062)
- VHD: fixed a bug in the VHD backend which resulted in reading the wrong data (bug #2085)
- Solaris hosts: fixed kernel panic on certain machines when starting VMs with host interface networking (bug #2183)
- Solaris hosts: fixed inability to access NFS shares on the host when host interface networking was enabled
- Solaris hosts: installer now detects and reports when installing under the wrong architecture
- Solaris hosts: fixed security hardening that prevented starting VMs from non-global zones even as root (bug #1948)
- Solaris additions: combined the 32 bit and 64 bit additions installer into a single package
- Mac OS X hosts: experimental support for attaching a real serial port to the guest
OC: Windows 2000/XP/Vista; Linux (Ubuntu / Debian / OpenSUSE / SUSE / Fedora / Mandriva / Red Hat / PCLinuxOS); Mac OS X
Интерфейс: Русский / Multilanguage
Размер: 22,4 Mb
