A Virtual(Box) Christmas!

Posted by Gilles Gravier on Oracle Blogs See other posts from Oracle Blogs or by Gilles Gravier
Published on Sat, 25 Dec 2010 18:41:22 +0100 Indexed on 2010/12/25 17:56 UTC
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Hello and merry Christmas everybody!

Yes. This year, it's a v4.0 Xmas! VirtualBox just came out with a new major version release. Version 4.0 is available at : http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads ... and of course, it's open source, and it's free. And I suggest (strongly) that you also download the free Extension Pack from the same page... Brings USB 2.0 emulation and more!

I upgraded the version on my Solaris Express (get that from : http://www.oracle.com/solaris/index.html and follow the Download Solaris Express link on the right) laptop (pfexec pkgrm SUNWvbox and then pfexec pkgadd -d the .pkg in the compressed archive file, and install the extensions from the VBox GUI once it's launched). If you are on an old fashion OS without proper RBAC, replace pfexec by sudo. Which you can also do on Solaris if you really want to. :)

I tell you, it's Christmas, for sure!

Merry VBox!

Gilles.

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