VirtualBox Virtualizaton Software from Sun Gets Update

From DailyTech: Virtual machines (VMs) are widely used in enterprise and development environments and by individual users. VMs are often used to easily allow multiple operating systems to be run on a single computer.

Sun Microsystems has announced that it has upgraded its VirtualBox virtualization software. The main new feature of VirtualBox 3.1 is that users can move VMs between host machines with no interruption.

The new version not only allows the user to move a VM between machines, but the VM can also be moved between different host operating systems, computer classes, and to and from machines running different CPUs. That means an administrator could move a VM running on an Intel machine with the Windows OS to a machine using AMD processors running Linux without any break in services or downtime.

Sun's Jim McHugh said, "As a cross-platform hypervisor, VirtualBox allows customers to easily evaluate and deploy virtualized systems, using their existing x86 hardware, operating systems and skill sets."

Flexibility and ease of moving VMs from one machine to another isn’t all the new version adds. Sun claims that the new version has a 30% performance boost compared to the previous version of the software. The new version also allows an administrator to move the VM back and forth to any arbitrary snapshot date.

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