Another year is almost over. I have been in a festive frame of mind now for a few weeks. I am looking forward to Christmas with my family and the bright eyes of my children.
I wanted to take this opportunity to wish my regular readers a happy festive season.
This blog has kept me fairly busy [...]

A few months ago I reviewed the performance and use of VirtualBox. A new version has just been released.
Version 2.1.0 is a major release and adds a whole new range of capabilities including:

Better hardware virtualization support on the Mac OS X operating systems

Better hardware virtualization support for Intel and AMD

full VMDK support

A better NAT engine

A [...]

Another desktop virtualization tool is Sun VirtualBox. Virtualbox operates in a similar way to other desktop virtualization tools. It allows you to create virtual machines within a host operating system like Windows XP etc.
So how does VirtualBox compare? VirtualBox has similar features to other products:

Supports software and hardware virtualization
Supports most guest operating systems
32bit and 64bit [...]