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<title>VirtualBox 1.6: A slightly mixed, but still fun bag</title>
<dc:date>2008-06-03T12:55:11-04:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Tony Agudo</dc:creator>
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Yesterday, I had a discussion with an acquaintance in Second Life about 
<a href="http://www.virtualbox.org">VirtualBox</a>, a really cool 
virtualization package for all major platforms. I already had VirtualBox 
installed on my machine, but I found out that it's no longer the latest 
version. Sun Microsystems recently acquired Innotek, and with it 
VirtualBox. So I went to the Downloads page and decided to download the 
binary package, since didn't feel like compiling the OSE version. One 
little RPM command later, and I was up and running.
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The good things added in this VirtualBox are USB support(OSE doesn't 
have that) and added built-in support for more OSes. However, it's not 
without a small annoyance or two. In the previous VirtualBox, once I set 
up a virtual machine to run in Fullscreen mode, it stayed that way until 
either I shut the machine down or directly chose to take it out of 
fullscreen. In this new VirtualBox, it kept going back to windowed mode 
several times while a machine was booting up. Certainly not a 
showstopper, but quite annoying. And performance overall seemed pretty 
much the same, even after I tried enabling some options for Intel 
virtualization optimizers.
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But all in all, not bad for Sun's first release after acquiring it. I 
give it four stars, and the fifth one will come once they fix that 
annoying fullscreen-to-window bug.
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