Sun (Don’t say, its Oracle now) VirtualBox 3.2 beta 1 released recently. This is a major updated version. The new feature I like is, it supports Mac OS X as guest (experimental). There are some cool features also available on Oracle VirtualBox 3.2. You can’t see any sign of ‘Sun’ on latest version, ‘Oracle’ replaced all, including in program files of host OS.
What’s new in Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.0?
Major changes are,
- Experimental support for Mac OS X guests
- Memory ballooning to dynamically in- or decrease the amount of RAM used by a VM (64-bit hosts only) (see the manual for more information)
- CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only) (see the manual for more information)
- New Hypervisor features: with both VT-x/AMD-V on 64-bit hosts, using large pages can improve performance (see the manual for more information); also, on VT-x, unrestricted guest execution is now supported (if nested paging is enabled with VT-x, real mode and protected mode without paging code runs faster, which mainly speeds up guest OS booting)
- Support for deleting snapshots while the VM is running
- Support for multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI (see the manual for more information)
- USB tablet/keyboard emulation for improved user experience if no Guest Additions are available
- LsiLogic SAS controller emulation
- RDP video acceleration
- NAT engine configuration via API and VBoxManage
- Guest Additions: added support for executing guest applications from the host system
- OVF: enhanced OVF support with custom namespace to preserve settings that are not part of the base OVF standard
Yes, Good news is VirtualBox 3.2.0 supports Mac OS X as guest officially.
Already I published a post about installation Mac OS X as guest on VirtualBox earlier versions when it was not supported officially. It worked for me and some others, but few people got problem.
I will try the same method to install Mac OS X on Oracle VirtualBox 3.2 without editing any configuration files. Let’s see whether it works for all.
Other changes and updates on Oracle VirtualBox 3.2 can be found here.
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great news! haha
Dinesh
could you post some tutorial about how to install snow leopard in virtual box?
Yeah, I will update very soon, Snow leopard on VirtualBox 3.2
Yeah, I will update very soon, Snow leopard on VirtualBox 3.2