goombah99 writes "After snapping up virtualization company InnoTek at the beginning of the year, Sun has recently released VirtualBox as a fully functional and highly polished free GPL open source x86 Virtual Macine. It can host 32 or 64 bit Linux, Windows XP vista and 98, openSolaris and DOS. It runs on mac, windows, and unix platforms. The download is just 27MB. A review of it on macworld, showing HD movies playing inside widows XP on a mac, demonstrates performance visually indistinguishable from VMware. Like it's competition it can run other OS's in rootless, rooted, or seamless modes display modes (where all the applications have their windows mixed at the same time). Each VM instance can only run single core (though I/O is multi-core), and it does not yet support advanced windows graphics libraries however, so some gamers may be disappointed. Slashdot discussed the InnoTek acquisition here and here."" Link to Original Source
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