Dank Oliver´s tweet habe ich mitbekommen, dass mein privater Lieblingsvirtualisierer VirtualBox ein Update auf Version 2.2 zu bieten hat.

Komisch eigentlich, denn die automatische Benachrichtigung sagt, ich wäre up-to-date.

Zum Beweis:

Wie dem auch sei, das Changelog liest sich wieder nach viel Programmierarbeit:

VirtualBox 2.2.0 (released 2009-04-08)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55)
• Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User Manual page 88)
• Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates
• Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB
• VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines
• USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)
• Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
• Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests
• OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70)
• Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services

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

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