[vbox-dev] Announce: VirtualBox 2.1.0 released!

[Armindo Silva]

Hi!

The 3D driver is much better than i expected for a first release! Just
installed a demo of quake2 and with opengl rendering i can get over 80FPS in
800x600.

Nice of work!

Cheers

Armindo


On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Frank Mehnert <Frank.Mehnert at sun.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> today Sun released VirtualBox 2.1.0. The following major new features were
> added:
>
>  * Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts
>  * Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems
> (experimental;
>   see user manual, chapter 1.6, 64-bit guests, page 16)
>  * Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and
>   VPID; see user manual, chapter 1.2, Software vs. hardware virtualization
>   (VT-x and AMD-V), page 10))
>  * Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see user manual, chapter 4.8,
>   Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), page 66)
>  * Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see user manual,
>   chapter 5.1, Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, page 70)
>  * Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see user manual, chapter 5.2,
>   Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD), page 72)
>  * New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and
> ICMP
>   echo (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)
>  * New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux
> hosts
>   with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on
>   Windows)
>
> Apart from these new features we fixed/improved a bunch of items. Please
> have a look at
>
>  http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
>
> for more details. The binaries and the manual can be downloaded here:
>
>  http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>
> Have fun,
>
> Frank
> --
> Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems    http://www.sun.com/
>
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