macfidelity

Im ganzen Google Chrome Rausch ging irgendwie das Update 1.6.6 von Virtualbox unter.

Bei VirtualBox handelt es sich wie bei VMware Fusion oder Parallels um eine Virtualisierungslösung die auch für den Mac verfügbar ist. Gestartet wurde die Entwicklung vom deutschen Unternehme Innotek die kürzlich von Sun aufgekauft wurden.

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I was just reading the feed from daringfireball while realising that Sun bought innotek.

innotek is a german company and developer of VirtualBox. Seems like the second open-source related takeover (MySQL) by Sun in a short series.

Tim Masland wrote about the background story in his blog.

A teaser:

It’s official. We just announced our intent to acquire innotek - a small company in Germany with (a) some very smart people and (b) some very significant technology, called VirtualBox. What is VirtualBox? Well, if you’re a hypervisor engineer, then it’s best explained as a high performance type 2 hypervisor that uses a combination of virtualization techniques to run many different unmodified operating systems in x86 virtual machines. It’s highly portable across multiple hosts and supports a wide range of guest operating systems.

But perhaps that’s a bit dry. And you don’t need to be a hypervisor engineer to find it extremely useful.

Think of it this way. If you download and install VirtualBox on your laptop - running Windows, MacOS X, Linux or OpenSolaris, you can then run most any other popular Operating System on the same machine. Or several at the same time, depending on what hardware resources are available. The download is around 25Mbytes on most platforms. And what’s truly cool about it for developers is that the download is free for personal use, and the code for VirtualBox is GPLv2 open source. So as well as VirtualBox being a cool product and a powerful set of technologies, it’s also a community, and a great fit with Sun’s broader open source strategies.

We think this tool is incredibly useful for developers - because most developers want to target multiple operating systems to maximise their audience and return on the time they’ve invested in their applications, and tools like VirtualBox let them do that by running everything - test environments, debug environments, etc. - on a single laptop. How does VirtualBox stack up against the other laptop and desktop options? Well I think it’s great, but you don’t have to take my word for it - there’s a couple of great reviews here and here.

While browsing the virtualBox news-pages i noticed that they realized an updates Mac OS X Version some weeks ago. Guess i have to try it….as the last Mac OS X release was not that perfect hehe.