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The FLOSS Weekly podcast did an entire episode on VirtualBox recently. There were some interesting comments in the podcast from the VBox team.

The team believes they are the closest to native for both network and storage virtualization. They recommended a number of specific NICs and how to connect to storage that does not disagree with my Improve VirtualBox Performance by almost 50% article. That was good to hear.

They talked about:

1. Oracle’s commitment to VirtualBox
2. Virtualization Overview (why, features, security, virtualized hardware, etc)
   1. Most interesting to me was that VBox supports OpenGL 2.x – that means XBMC should run in a vbox VM.
3. Differences between the OSE and PEUL licenses – what is contained in just the PEUL?
4. vboxmanage and how 3rd party folks have written some nice tools
5. Teleportation (V-Motion like) that does not require identical
6. Page-Fusion – shared memory across guest OSes (this was new to me). The intent is to support hundreds of client VMs per server.
7. Mac virtualization challenges – it works, but only on Mac hardware due to Apple DRM in hardware checks.

Anyway, find the VirtualBox specific podcast here.
A link to the show notes

By the way, if you are a dentist, FLOSS Weekly has nothing to do with teeth. FLOSS is *F*ree *L*ibre *O*pen *S*ource *S*oftware.