Sun has announced the newest version of xVM VirtualBox, which got a significant update.
VirtualBox 2.1.2 is the first to fully support the beta version of Windows 7 as a guest or operating system.
Users can install Windows 7 Beta on the bare metal and then run Windows Vista/XP or Ubuntu or the Sun Solaris OS. Users can run Windows 7 Beta on a Mac, Windows Vista/XP, etc. Linux (all 35 types) and OpenSolaris as well. VirtualBox 2.1.2 also supports more than 1,000 virtual machines per host operating system. Made speed improvements for real mode and protected mode without paging. Raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory.
And it has added or fixed a number of other items in this maintenance release.
