Hoy ha sido lanzada la version 2.0.6 del software libre y gratuito de Virtualización, Virtual Box es la «competencia» libre de VMWare, a la cual no tiene nada que envidiar, personalmente llevo usandola unos 6 meses, y todo son alabanzas para este software, muy recomendable.
Descargas:
- VirtualBox 2.0.6 for OS X hosts Intel Macs
- VirtualBox 2.0.6 Software Developer Kit (SDK) All platforms
Lista de Cambios de la version 2.0.6:
VirtualBox 2.0.6 (released 2008-11-21)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: fixed Guru meditation when running 64 bits Windows guests (bug #2220)
- VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 boot hangs (VT-x and AMD-V) bug #2565)
- VMM: fixed Solaris 10U6 reboot hangs (AMD-V only; bug #2565)
- GUI: the host key was sometimes not properly displayed (Windows hosts only, bug #1996)
- GUI: the keyboard focus was lost after minimizing and restoring the VM window via the Windows taskbar (bugs #784)
- VBoxManage: properly show SATA disks when showing the VM information (bug #2624)
- SATA: fixed access if the buffer size is not sector-aligned (bug #2024)
- SATA: improved performance
- SATA: fixed snapshot function with ports>1 (bug #2510)
- E1000: fixed crash under rare circumstances
- USB: fixed support for iPhone and Nokia devices (Linux host: bugs #470 & #491)
- Windows host installer: added proper handling of open VirtualBox applications when updating the installation
- Windows host installer: fixed default installation directory on 64-bit on new installations (bug #2501)
- Linux/Solaris/Darwin hosts: verify permissions in /tmp/vbox-$USER-ipc
- Linux hosts: fixed assertion on high network load (AMD64 hosts, fix for Linux distributions with glibc 2.6 and newer (bug #616)
- Linux hosts: don’t crash during shutdown with serial ports connected to a host device
- Solaris hosts: fixed incompatibility between IPSEC and host interface networking
- Solaris hosts: fixed a rare race condition while powering off VMs with host interface networking
- Solaris hosts: fixed VBoxSDL on Solaris 10 by shipping the required SDL library (bug #2475)
- Windows additions: fixed logged in users reporting via guest properties when using native RDP connections
- Windows additions: fixed Vista crashes when accessing shared folders under certain circumstances (bug #2461)
- Windows additions: fixed shared folders access with MS-Office (bug #2591)
- Linux additions: fixed compilation of vboxvfs.ko for 64-bit guests (bug #2550)
- SDK: added JAX-WS port caching to speedup connections