I just noticed that VirtualBox put out a new major update, version 2.2.0. They’ve added some very interesting features in this version, such as OVF:
OVF is a cross-platform standard supported by many virtualization products which allows for creating ready-made virtual machines that can then be imported into a virtualizer such as VirtualBox.
Another interesting development is support for OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris (and Windows as well, according to the manual) guest operating systems. Here’s a video I just made to demonstrate it with Linux Mint 6 KDE:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHhn0f53x-w[/youtube]
First, I showed the basic GLX gears getting a respectable FPS, then I moved on to a quick demo of Armagetron to test it a little further. The fps were limited by the recording software, I actually got around 1400 with glxgears and Armagetron got around 170 windowed.
