An Oracle branded VirtualBox Released - Oracle aren't going to kill this project

This release introduces MacOS guest support, but the license agreement for MacOS states that it must not be run on non-Apple hardware. From the VirtualBox manual:<p><i>"Mac OS X verifies whether it is running on Apple hardware, ...these restrictions are not circumvented by VirtualBox and continue to apply."</i><p>Wonder how long until someone patches the source to remove this check. A guest OS shouldn't be able to snoop and find out what kind of hardware the host OS is running on...smells like a hack.

Considering my primary dev environment for personal projects is an Ubuntu 10.04 VM running on Virtual Box, this is good news.<p>Double bonus the new version has support for taking full advantage of i5 and i7 procs, and I'm running an i7 920. Time to upgrade when I get home tonight.

I suspect they've concluded that virtualization is a complement to databases.

I love this thing but it goes through too frequent updates. They just had 3.1.8 9 days ago and now they have 3.2. It's not quiet about the updates either, so I feel bad if I don't upgrade. I wish updates had known release dates, except where security bugs are fixed.

Hope not.<p>I fear most for OpenSolaris. It's harder to fork than VirtualBox and far bigger.

The Mac OS X support is cool and I would love to be able to run older OS X versions in a VM, but it looks like they've still got quite a bit of work before it is really usable. Issues include:<p>"Even when idle, OS X guests currently burn 100% CPU. This is a power management issue that will be addressed in a future release."<p>:(<p><a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch14.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch14.html</a>

While I'm glad to see Oracle are pushing the development of VirtualBox, I'm fearful they will make it 'not-free' and try to price it like VMware Workstation. I have the same fear for MYSQL. Let's hope Oracle have the sense not to tinker too much.

I'm really impressed with VirtualBox's pace of development. They keep coming out with <i>big</i> new features, passing the other major (paid-for) VM software in some ways.<p>Hope this keeps up.

The editorialization in the title is unnecessary.

When I go Help | Check for Updates - nada. Will just have to go to their website and d/l.

My VB has been Oracle branded for a while... oh wait, I was running a prerelease. Never mind me.

What if I'm running Ubuntu on a MBP. Can I run OS X as a VB guest?