“Intel-based Mac OS X users now have yet another virtualization solution to choose from now that Innotek has announced a Mac version of its VirtualBox virtualization software. This time though, the product is based on open-source code and is the first professional virtualization product being made available free of charge to the Apple Macintosh platform,” David Marshall reports for InfoWorld.
Marshall reports, “OS X is the third major platform that VirtualBox supports as it was previously available to both Windows and Linux users. The product supports a wide variety of x86 compatible guest operating system such as: various versions of Windows from NT to Vista, DOS, OpenBSD and Linux. Features include USB support, snapshots and command-line scripting.”
“The OS X version is currently available in its first public beta version and is based on VirtualBox’s new version 1.4 codebase. The product is expected to be completed in the 2nd quarter of 2007,” Marshall reports.
Full article here.
More info and download links: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox
Off topic cooment for MacDailyNews peeps:
I was glad to see MacDailyNews was updating its site, but I expected a lot more:
• Still no users base?
• Feedback wraps to second page? (that sucks)
Kudos for getting rid of the annoying ad text, and finding a better way to handle ads.
But as far as the coding of the site goes, it appears that there was an update to the style sheets and the site is now in a div wrapper. Not very innovative…