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VirtualBox 2.2 is now available. This is a major upgrade and includes the following new features

OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55)

Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User Manual page 88)

Hypervisor optimizations with signiﬁcant performance gains for high context switching rates

Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB

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 and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70)

Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services

For a complete list of new features and bug fixes, see the Changelog at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog.

VirtualBox 2.2 can be downloaded from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Important: Remember to reinstall the guest additions for all of your existing VMs.

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