VirtualBox 2.1 Supports 64-Bit VM In 32-Bit Host

Stephen Birch writes "Following closely behind the mid-November 2.06 release of VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems has released version 2.1. This has a number of new features, but one of the most interesting is the ability to run a 64-bit VM inside a 32-bit host. Another useful feature is integrated host-based networking; no more fiddling around with network bridges. Sun is really giving VMWare a run for their money."

what about performance fall off?

[flyingpastor]

Would a 32 bit emulating a 64 be like a fat man in the 200m dash?

Great, needed this as of last week..

[ehaggis]

I can't justify purchasing a 64 box for the house, but a beefed up 32 running 64 virtually is just the ticket to get SAP on Linux up and running. Merry Christmas to me!

Re:Great, needed this as of last week..

[megamerican]

Getting SAP at home for Christmas is worse than getting beat over the head with a stocking full of coal.

Re:How to Install Virtualbox 2.1 in Ubuntu

[Trahloc]

Did I just see the words "double click" in reference to an install on a linux box? ... I feel soiled.

Re:Great, needed this as of last week..

[Anonymous Coward]

This is perfect. My 64bit laptop is running a corporate mandated 32bit XP Pro SP3. About time I get to use >1.25GB of heap for Java.

Re:How to Install Virtualbox 2.1 in Ubuntu

[moonbender]

Odd. I feel spoiled.

Re:.. and .. I bet VMware and ms are muttering...

[davidsyes]

SUN of a BITCH....

Re:Great, needed this as of last week..

[Gerzel]

Give the market a few years and the cost of the fossil fuels will make the stocking worth it.

QEMU

[morgauo]

As far as I can tell, it's just a free as in beer version of free as in speech + beer QEMU.

How long before it comes out that virtualbox actually is QEMU, with a Sun sticker on it?

Re:Great, needed this as of last week..

[genner]

Getting SAP at home for Christmas is worse than getting beat over the head with a stocking full of coal.

Could be worse......Microsoft Small Business Manager anyone?

Re:How to Install Virtualbox 2.1 in Ubuntu

[kefler]

"Let's try to limit the Wikipedia notion that knowledge and trivia are the same thing."
I beg to differ:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivia [wikipedia.org]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge [wikipedia.org]

Re:Great, needed this as of last week..

[Gyga]

He never said that you got to keep the coal.

Re:Virtualbox is superior to VMware

[MMC Monster]

"Snappy" is a fine term to use. I read it all the time in the High Definition Theater magazine reviews.

Re:.. and ..

[0xygen]

He said gaming, not retro-gaming.

SM2.0? Welcome to five years ago.

Re:.. and ..

[Tubal-Cain]

In integrated desktop mode I'd like to make the windows taskbar and windows look more gnome like and scrap the bottom taskbar for gnome.

Some poor souls use KDE, you insensitive clod!

(such as Linus)

emulator

[rajafarian]

Another way to put it is that it *emulates* the behavior of those APIs.

You use that word a lot. I don't think it means what you think it means.

Re:How to Install Virtualbox 2.1 in Ubuntu

[operagost]

It just ain't right unless vi is involved!