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[TheHive]

[url="http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...p;hl=VirtualBox"]http://www.911cd.net...p;hl=VirtualBox[/url]
Found out about the update from aMer posting at 911.
He summed it nicely so i will quote

Note: VirtualBox now supports VMware disk images (VMDK) natively

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

Jun 5, 2007. innotek today released VirtualBox 1.4.0 for Windows and Linux.

This new version brings hundreds of improvements, more than any update since the first official release in January 2007. Among the new features are full support for 64-bit Linux hosts, RDP session shadowing, clipboard synchronization and easier Linux host interface networking. In the storage department, VirtualBox now supports VMware disk images (VMDK) natively and can give virtual machines access to physical disks and partitions ("raw disk support"). The graphical user interface has received more polish and has now been translated into 12 languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Arabic, Russian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Chinese). Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) and Xandros Desktop 4.1 are now officially supported; support for FreeBSD and OpenBSD guests has been improved.

As with its predecessors, VirtualBox 1.4.0 is available both as Open Source under the GPL as well as under a commercial license which, in most cases, allows you to use the product free of charge.

[url="http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=323"]http://forums.virtua...topic.php?t=323[/url]
[url="http://www.virtualbox.org/"]http://www.virtualbox.org/[/url]
[url="http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads"]http://www.virtualbo.../wiki/Downloads[/url]

[Brito]

Thanks for the newsflash!

These are good news!

[pscEx]

I removed my current 1.3.8 and installed the new 1.4.0

My VirtualBox.script booted the ISO w/o any issues.

Peter

[was_jaclaz]

Yes, also there is support for RAW images.

jaclaz

[bilou_gateux]

Virtual Machines: .vmdk to .vdi Using Qemu + vditool
The method described is done on a Linux host but should be able to do the same on a Windows host.

vditool Windows release.

[Brito]

Very interesting find!

There's an article with some screenshots here:
https://wiki.ubuntu....VdiTool#preview

And a small post explaining how we can decrease the size of an image to shrink it's size when needed, look here:
http://forums.virtua...7e41b2f14b887c7

Would be fun to see if even qemu itself can be now..

[thasan]

Has anyone had any experience with clustering with VirtualBox? VMWare does do it but it never flushes the cache. To test failovers, I have to power down the host to test in VMWare. I was wondering if VirtualBox has over come this issue or if it supports Virtual Clustering at all.