VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released

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VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released

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Works in progress, per la nuova versione di VIrtualBox, che sarà rinominata in Oracle VM VirtualBox

Tra le varie novità quella che salta subito all'occhio è:
* Experimental support for Mac OS X guests
Sarebbe il primo programma VM a supportare ufficialmente una guest VM con sistema operativo Apple Mac OS X


Source:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30287
Please do NOT use this VirtualBox Beta release on production machines. A VirtualBox Beta release should be considered a bleeding-edge release meant for early evaluation and testing purposes.

You can download the binaries here.

Please do NOT open bug reports at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker but use our VirtualBox Beta Feedback forum to report any problems with the Beta. Please concentrate on reporting regressions since VirtualBox 3.1.6.

VirtualBox Version 3.2.0 is a major update. The following major new features were added:

* Following the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation, the product is now called Oracle VM VirtualBox and all references were changed without impacting compatibility.
* Experimental support for Mac OS X guests
* Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information)
* CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see the manual for more information)
* New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance (see the manual for more information); also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster, which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)
* Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running
* Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI (see the manual for more information)
* USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest Additions are available
* LsiLogic SAS controller emulation
* RDP video acceleration
* NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage
* Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from the host system
* OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings that are not part of the base OVF standard

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

* VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during early boot (software virtualization only)
* VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled
* VMM: fixed Windows 2000 guest crash when configured with a large amount of RAM (bug 5800)
* VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging only)
* Linux/Solaris guests: PAM module for automatic logons added
* GUI: guess the OS type from the OS name when creating a new VM
* GUI: added VM setting for passing the time in UTC instead of passing the local host time to the guest (bug 1310)
* GUI: fixed seamless mode on secondary monitors (bugs 1322 and 1669)
* GUI: added --seamless and --fullscreen command line switches (bug 4220)
* Settings: be more robust when saving the XML settings files
* Mac OS X: rewrite of the CoreAudio driver and added support for audio input (bug 5869)
* Mac OS X: external VRDP authentication module support (bug 3106)
* Mac OS X: Moved the realtime dock preview settings to the VM settings (no global option anymore). Use the dock menu to configure it.
* Mac OS X: added the VM menu to the dock menu
* VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug 4460)
* 3D support: fixed corrupted surface rendering (bug 5695)
* 3D support: fixed VM crashes when using ARB_IMAGING (bug 6014)
* 3D support: fixed assertion when guest applications uses several windows with single OpenGL context (bug 4598)
* 3D support: added GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object support
* 3D support: added OpenGL 2.1 support
* 3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (Mac OS X only) (bug 4653)
* Added support for virtual high precision event timer (HPET)
* LsiLogic: Fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when using the drivers from LSI
* NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug 6427)
* Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug 5375)
* Shared folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files (Linux guests only; bug 4890)
* OVF: fixed mapping between two IDE channels in OVF and the one IDE controller in VirtualBox


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Re: VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released

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Una bella notizia per poter provare Mac su Linux.

Esiste un'altro progetto Mac-On-Linux opensource però abbandonato all'indirizzo: http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/

Speriamo che funzioni bene.


Vorrei dei chiarimenti sulla risoluzione video virtuale, riporto di seguito l'esempio:

Quando installo Virtualbox installa anche VBoxGuestAdditions che dovrebbe permettere di aumentare la risoluzione video es. 1280x1024, ecc..
Installando Ubuntu 10.04 in ambiente virtuale quando vado ad impostare la risoluzione video il massimo permesso risulta 800x600, si può aumentare questa risoluzione ?

Ciao da Salvo.
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Re: VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released

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Esistono già delle soluzioni per installare il MacOSX su vmware e/o virtualbox, ma sono soluzioni per adesso sperimentali e non supportate, provenienti da vari smanettamenti di tipi in gamba,

è cosi sufficiente cercare su google per trovare centinaia di guide varie, alcune anche in italiano, per portare MacOSX su VM,

una ben altra cosa sarebbe un supporto ufficiale all'emulazione, contando anche sul fatto che è possibile comperare il DVD con una licenza ufficiale del MacOSX per appena 29$, anche se tale licenza sarebbe solo applicabile su hardware brandizzato Apple, e non su vari cloni o emulatori
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Re: VirtualBox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released

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ci sono gia varie macchine vm ( vmware) con darwin preinstallato., o pure basta installare darwin in vmware ( viene creata una macchina
bsd like )
Ce anche la variante IDENEB che a me nn installa ne su 7.0.1 ne sulla beta
:D ciao ciao SymbianFlo :D
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