xVM VirtualBox in Action
Watch Andy Hall use xVM VirtualBox to deliver Windows applications alongside Solaris and Linux applications apps on his MacBook Pro.
Grab xVM VirtualBox 2.1 Today
Like previous releases, xVM VirtualBox 2.1 can be downloaded for free and it's available now. You can also purchase an enterprise subscription license, which includes 24/7 premium support from Sun and rights to deploy VirtualBox across your enterprise. It starts at $30 per user each year. An existing enterprise subscription also covers the new release
VirtualBox for Developers
In this video, Steve Wilson, vice president of xVM, demonstrates developers how to use xVM VirtualBox to create a test lab environment on a single laptop.
Desktop to Datacenter Virtualization
Virtualization doesn't end with the desktop, and Sun offers products to virtualize servers, storage, networking, and applications. Sun's portfolio of xVM virtualization and management software includes Sun xVM Ops Center, Sun xVM Server, and Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software.
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New in xVM VirtualBox 2.1
With Sun's xVM VirtualBox, users can create separate virtual machines on their PCs and then install in them any one of several different guest operating systems, regardless of the desktop OS. The software is a small download that installs in less than five minutes. The latest release offers several enterprise-class enhancements, including:
- 3D acceleration graphics adaptor uses Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) to run high-performance graphics applications, including CAM-based imagery software.
- Better network performance speeds up network-intensive apps like videos.
- Bridged networking configuration makes it easier to deploy Web stacks like LAMP or SAMP.
Also, xVM VirtualBox 2.1 supports:
- Sun Storage 7000 unified storage systems
- Intel's new Nehalem-based processors
- Mac OS X on Intel Virtualization Technology
- VMware's virtual machine disk (VMDK) and Microsoft's virtual hard disk (VHN) file formats
- 64-bit guest OSes on 32-bit host platforms
A Thriving Community
Sun xVM VirtualBox has been downloaded more than 8 million times around the world, and more than 25,000 more downloads occur every day. With more than 2.5 million registered users, the VirtualBox community is growing very quickly. Community members participate in online forums, report problems to a public bug tracker, subscribe to mailing lists, and talk to other developers via an Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
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