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20090630 Tuesday June 30, 2009
VirtualBox 3.0 is now available
VirtualBox 3.0 has been released and is now available for download. You can get binaries for Windows, OS X (Intel Mac), Linux and Solaris hosts at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Version 3.0 is a major update and contains the following new features
  • SMP guest machines, up to 32 virtual CPUs: requires Intel VT-x or AMD-V
  • Experimental support for Direct3D 8/9 in Windows guests: great for games and multimedia applications
  • Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests

There is also a long list of bugs fixed in the new release. Please see the Changelog for a complete list.


In my early testing of VirtualBox 3.0 I have been most impressed by the SMP performance as well as the Direct3D passthrough from the guest. There are now some games that I can play in a guest virtual machine that I could not previously. Thanks to the VirtualBox development team for another great release.

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