| Mer 08 Dic 2010 |
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Rilasciata la prima beta di VirtualBox 4.0.0. Download possibile da questa pagina. Da ricordare che a partire dalla versione 4.0 la licenza di VirtualBox è cambiata, sia il codice sorgente che i binari di VirtualBox sono rilasciati sotto licenza GPLv2, mentre le estensioni di terze parti sono rilasciate sotto licenza Puel.
Version 4.0.0 will be new major release. The following major new features were added:
- New settings/disk file layout for VM portability; see the manual for more information.
- Open Virtualization Format Archive (OVA) support; see the manual for more information.
- VMM: support more than 1.5/2 GB guest RAM on 32-bit hosts
- Language bindings: uniform Java bindings for both local (COM/XPCOM) and remote (SOAP) invocation APIs
- Chipset: added support for the Intel ICH9 chipset with 3 PCI buses, PCI express and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI)
- Audio: Intel HD Audio is now available as guest hardware, for better support with modern guest operating systems (e.g. 64-bit Windows);
- GUI: redesigned user interface with guest window preview
- GUI: new display mode with downscaled guest display
- Resource control: added support for limiting a VM's CPU time and IO bandwidth.
- Storage: support asynchronous I/O for iSCSI, VMDK, VHD and Parallels images
- Storage: support for resizing VDI and VHD images
- Windows Additions: support for automatically updating the Guest Additions (requires installed Windows Guest Additions 4.0 or later)
- Guest Additions: support for copying files into the guest file system
