VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 1 available for download
The first beta for VirtualBox 3.1.0 is available for download. The most interesting feature is Teleportation. In other environments this is called “live migration”. But there are other major changes in this version:
- Restoring a VM from an arbitrary snapshot instead just the last one
- Snapshoting a Snapshot (branched snapshots)
- 2D video acceleration for Windows guests
- changing the network attachment type of a running VM
- Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher.
- Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging)
- Experimental support for EFI (Extended Firmware Interface)
- VirtIO network device support
The full overview regarding the changes is available at the usual location. As a usual when using a beta version you should really read this document before trying the release ;)