VirtualBox 2.0 released

VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems' Open Source Virtualizer software reached version no. 2.0 yesterday.

Most important new feature of VirtualBox is the support for 64bit guest OSs. However, there are a few conditions that must be met for this.

• The CPU of the machine should be 64bit with hardware virtualization support enabled(At the moment, VirtualBox doesn't support software virtualization for 64bit guest OSs).
• The Host OS should be 64bit.
• VirtualBox itself should be the 64bit version.

Even with all these restrictions, the addition of 64bit guests is a good move by Sun, since 64bit versions of software are the future. This new version also fixes a few problems with AMD CPUs.

VirtualBox is available in both x86 and x64 versions for almost all major linux distributions (and any linux distro with kernel version 2.6) and also for Windows XP/Vista.

You can download VirtualBox 2.0 from here (Make sure you select the correct version for your architecture).