VirtualBox 2.1

[zort]

VirtualBox 2.1 looks like a pretty big update.

From Inq (http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/103/1050103/sun-releases-virtualbox-2-1):
According to Sun, the major new features of this release include:

* 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)
* Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID)
* 3D acceleration via OpenGL (experimental)
* LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (experimental)
* Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots
* New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo (ping) support
* New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)


Full changelog:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

Downloads:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

[ciscokid]

This looks to be much better than VirtualPC, it has full USB support as well. I've already installed it and will try an installation of Windows XP SP3 on my Vista x64 computer. It's always good to have an extra version of XP running somewhere. :)

[abogangster]

I have a deployment using VirtualBox 2.1 with Ubuntu 8.04 as host OS and XP as guest OS, it just runs like a charm, the only problem was with USB, but easy to fix following instructions from VirtualBox website.

[tommy_vercetti]

Hi All,

I know posting this thing in the wrong place

The DMI data VirtualBox provides to guests can be changed for a specific VM. Use the
following commands to configure the DMI BIOS information:
VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVendor" \
"Host BIOS Vendor"
VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSVersion" \
"Host BIOS Version"
VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseDate" \
"Host BIOS Release Date"
VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseMajor" \
1
VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSReleaseMinor" \
2
VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSFirmwareMajor" \
3
VBoxManage setextradata "My VM" \
"VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/DmiBIOSFirmwareMinor" \
4
If a DMI string is not set, the default value of VirtualBox is used. To set an empty
string use “<EMPTY>“.
Changing this information can be necessary to provide the DMI information of the
host to the guest to prevent Windows from asking for a new product key. On Linux
hosts the DMI BIOS information can be obtained with
dmidecode -t0
and the DMI system information can be obtained with
dmidecode -t1

Will this help in modifying the SLP ID so as to run a OEM install disc