VirtualBox 3.2 – major update
My favorite hypervisor just received some much-needed updates that really bring it into striking range of VMware’s Workstation or Parallels. Among the most notable additions to the best-priced (free!) product in desktop/workstation virtualization are:
- Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running
- Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI for Windows guests
- RDP video acceleration
- Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only)
As you might already know, VirtualBox is my favorite virtualization product for the desktop because of it’s rich feature set and support for both Windows and Mac. I recently scored over a 90% on my VCP exam in no small part to the ability to run a Windows VM on my Mac, allowing me to mobilize my study environment with ease. If you’re looking to simply get into virtualization with ease, and for free, VirtualBox is definitely worth the download and minimal install footprint.
Categorised as: Virtualization