= Welcome to !VirtualBox.org! =

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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
January 11th, 2012<br>VirtualBox 4.0.16 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released VirtualBox 4.0.16, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.0 which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the <a href="/wiki/Changelog-4.0"> ChangeLog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
Dec 22, 2011<br>VirtualBox 3.2.14 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released VirtualBox 3.2.14, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.2 which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the <a href="/wiki/Changelog-3.2">ChangeLog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">New</span>
December 19th, 2011<br>VirtualBox 4.1.8 released!</b><br>
Oracle today released VirtualBox 4.1.8, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.1 which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the <a href="/wiki/Changelog"> ChangeLog</a> for details.
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<b><span style="background: #B00; color: #ffd; font-family: WarpSans, Arial; padding: 1px 3px;">Important</span>
October 2011<br>We're hiring!</b><br>
Looking for a new challenge? We're looking for engineers in <a href="http://jobs.oracle.com/jol_ext-jolap-dad/plsql/jol_www_pages_pkg.jol_vacancy_details?p_frames=Y&p_keywords=VirtualBox&p_cty_id=&p_days=&p_main_psn_id=&p_additional_psn_id=&p_start_row=1&p_end_row=&p_vcy_id=212587">Russia</a> and <a href="http://jobs.oracle.com/jol_ext-jolap-dad/plsql/jol_www_pages_pkg.jol_vacancy_details?p_frames=Y&p_keywords=VirtualBox&p_cty_id=&p_days=&p_main_psn_id=&p_additional_psn_id=&p_start_row=1&p_end_row=&p_vcy_id=219182">Ireland</a>. Click on the countries to get details. More to come...
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== More improvements for the virtualbox.org websites! ==

This server is moving away from using a local authentication database to Oracle Single Sign On. The same will happen for forums.virtualbox.org a bit later. Finally one login for both sites (and many others if you already have an Oracle SSO account). It eliminates the risk of account information theft in the case someone manages to break in.

This brings a small inconvenience for everyone who doesn't yet have an Oracle SSO account: you need to create one. Anyone can get this without being an Oracle customer of any kind.

Go to https://myprofile.oracle.com/ and use "sign up a new account".

The plan is to complete the change for this server over the upcoming weekend.

All the content (bug reports, forum posts) will stay in place. Everyone can keep their nick name/alias, and new users can pick whatever is free.

I hope everyone makes this small step. Oracle is supporting the open source community around !VirtualBox by providing the infrastructure and by keeping it open source.

January 13th, 2012

== About this site == 


!VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 [wiki:"Virtualization" virtualization] product 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) version 2. See "[wiki:"VirtualBox" About VirtualBox]" for an introduction.

Presently, !VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris 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, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and !OpenSolaris, OS/2, 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 Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.


=== Hot picks: ===
 * Pre-built virtual machines for developers over at [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vm/index.html Oracle Tech Network] 
 * '''phpVirtualBox''' AJAX web interface [http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/ project site]


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