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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">Caution</span>
Aug 4, 2008<br>Unwanted logging in VirtualBox 1.6.4</b><br>
VirtualBox 1.6.4 has an issue which causes extra logging. You can turn this off by making sure you have <code>VBOX_LOG_DEST=nofile</code> in your environment variables.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
July 30, 2008<br>VirtualBox 1.6.4 released!</b><br>
Sun today released VirtualBox 1.6.4, a maintenance release. See the <a href="/wiki/Changelog"> ChangeLog</a> for a list of changes since VirtualBox 1.6.2.
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June 06, 2008<br>VirtualBox 1.6.2 released!</b><br>
Sun today released VirtualBox 1.6.2, a maintenance release. See the <a href="/wiki/Changelog"> ChangeLog</a> for a list of changes since VirtualBox 1.6.0.
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May 2, 2008<br>VirtualBox 1.6 released!</b><br>
The first major release since being acquired by Sun Microsystems is now available. Version 1.6 has new Mac and Solaris host platform support, new high performance virtual devices, improved scalability and Web Services. Get it now, Get it <a href="/wiki/Downloads">here...</a>
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!VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 [wiki:"Virtualization" virtualization] products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is !VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "[wiki:"VirtualBox" About VirtualBox]" for an introduction.

Presently, !VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and !OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of [wiki:"Guest_OSes" guest operating systems] including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

!VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. !VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

On this site, you can find sources, binaries, documentation and other resources for !VirtualBox. If you are interested in !VirtualBox (both as a user, or possibly as a contributor), this website is for you.

For up-to-date press coverage about !VirtualBox, check this blog: [http://blogs.sun.com/VirtualBoxBuzz/ blogs.sun.com/VirtualBoxBuzz]