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Thursday May 07, 2009

Version 2.2.2 of VirtualBox, running on Mac, is the best release I have seen to date. It is much more stable than any of the last three releases, of which I had begun to despair following a persistent problem with suspend or restore of virtual machine state. The new version is not only stable but also lightning-fast.

If anyone is remotely interested, I have been using it for both professional and personal reasons. At work I have used it to give me a clean client-machine/browser environment for testing Sun's IBIS implementation of Oracle 11i. Personally I have been using VirtualBox to host a MySQL and Apache environment to do some prototyping of a new Joomla-based website for the charity that I support in my spare time. The website I developed for Freewheelers EVS has now gone live and is receiving good reviews from my colleagues in the charity. I'm also relieved to see that so far the redevelopment hasn't messed anything up in our Google rankings - an important part of maintaining our profile with new volunteers and sponsors.