Sun's VirtualBox 2.1
Sun released VirtualBox 2.1 the 17th of Dec. supporting x64 VM's on a x32 host. VirtualBox 2.1 now supports both Microsofts .VMDK and VMware .VHD virtual formats. This has to be one of the greatest features any virtual platform has developed in the last year (or longer).
Recently my Vista x64 host machine crashed. Long story short my motherboard took a dive. I used this machine to run my VMware virtual machines, mostly for testing purposes and all of which were x64 platforms that existed on an external device. Roughly 15 VM's in all. Once my Vista x64 system went down I had no other spare or available 64-bit capable host system to run my VM's. Suns VirtualBox (2.1) solved this issue as I was then able to connect my external device to my Vista 32-bit system. Which obviously is in fact capable of running a 64-bit platform. Suns virtualization technology is sure to make a lot of noise in the near future. Oh and by the way, its free. Thank you VirtualBox.
Posted by Matt at 2:29 PM
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