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Virtualbox 2.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing. It is a major release and contains many new features, including

OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export

Host-only networking mode

Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates

VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines

USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)

Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts

Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests

OpenGL 3d acceleration for Linux guests

Experimental support for OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) hosts running both the 64-bit and the 32-bit kernel

as well as numerous bug fixes. See the announcement in the VirtualBox Forum for more information. The beta can be downloaded from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/2.2.0_BETA1.

This release is for testing and evaluation purposes, so please do not run this on a production system. I really don't need to remind you of this - you will get a nice graphical reminder every time you start the control program.

Since there are some configuration file changes in the new release, the beta program will also upgrade your configurations. Please back up your XML files before running it for the first time (or if you are like me, a zfs snapshot -r to your xvm datasets will do the trick).

Point your browser at the VirtualBox Beta Feedback Forum for more information about the beta program.

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