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Sun announced the release of the newest version of VirtualBox. VirtualBox Version 2.04 is a maintenance releases of 2.0. For a full list of changes and enhancements in the new release see the change log http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

I have the new version installed and will be using 2.04 to build and test future Virtual Machine releases.

I am looking forward to testing some of the operating system that I had trouble completing the installation process.

VirtualBox 2.04 can be downloaded from the VirtualBox web site for free.
http://VIrtualBox.org

Due to a computer crash it has been awhile since the last post. I have spent the past two weeks rebuilding.

Over the past two weeks VirtualBox 2.02 was released. The maintenance release has addressed many issues. Unfortunately we were still unable to get and BSD OS to load, sigh.....
The good news is, Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6 did install in VirtualBox and is available for download via torrent - Ubuntu Alpha 6 VDI

Here is a list of the new virtual images for download:

• Mandriva Linux 2009 RC1 KDE
• Ubuntu JeOS 8.04 (modified) VDI
• Ubuntu Server Drupal-5.9 Sandbox VDI
  

Two new version of VirtualBox were released last week with much fan fair. VirtualBox 2.0 was released two days after version 1.6.6. I had high hopes to load the new Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha running the new Kernal 2.6.2x. But, this was not to be the case. Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 5 still failed to load and install in VirtualBox 2.0.

With so many attempts to load different system, we began publishing the VirtualBox Machine "logs" of the systems that failed to boot or load. The loges were made available to the VirtualBox development team. Now, for those that are interested the logs can be viewed here.

After multiple attempts to load the latest Alpha version of Ubuntu in VirtualBox, it is clear that there is still work to be done.

Our congratulations go out to the development teams of both VirtualBox and the Linux Kernal.

A weekly report on new images released and experiences installing and posting them.

http://Unlimited-Host.net

If you were enjoying the screenshots and the videos, you may have noticed that they are down again.

StarData LCC causes Unlimited-Host.net shutdown
It looks to be official, if browse their site you will see that they have shutdown. http://Unlimited-Host.net
And it does not look like they are coming back !!

This very is disappointing, to say the least. The screenshots are down. The Videos are down. The new domain is down. The suggested replacement site is four times the cost.

We will begin looking for another solution in the days to come. None of the data is lost, so thats good. But as they say you can't get back the lost time.

After some issues with corrupted archives and vdis I have put a new verification process in place.
The modified process is intended to ensure that the file you download is functional.

James

Sun has announced the release of VirtualBox 1.6.4:
the release notes are quoted below;
VirtualBox 1.6.4 (released 2008-07-30)
Download VirtualBox 1.6.4 here
This is a maintenance release. See the "Change Log" for more information.

This new release will no doubt increase the usability VirtualBox. Let's hope that with this release a BSD product will load !!

And here we are thirty days later.
30 VDIs available to the community, VirtualBox is sold to Sun Microsystems, VirtualBox Version 1.5.6 is released, and DaPenguin dances for the weekend.