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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1
Dec 29, 2008
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1

by Cameron Sturdevant


Hardware Virtualization on Mac

2

VirtualBox 2.1 now fully supports hardware virtualization on Mac OS X hosts (shown in parameters in center of screen).


Windows 2000

3

VirtualBox ably handled running Windows 2000 Server, allowing us to run legacy applications.


Guest Additions

4

The equivalent of VMware Tools, VirtualBox Guest Additions provide ease-of-use features, including mouse integration.


Broad OS Support

5

VirtualBox runs a wide variety of Windows and Linux operating systems; the latest version of Ubuntu is shown here.

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