Shoaib Ali It's bloggin time

I recently found out about this. The VirtualBox has gone open source! Believe it or not I think it puts every other virtualization software to shame.

1) It's FREE (now).
2) It's java based so no question of multi platform compliance.
3) It's ONLY 27 Mb download!
4) Can run seamlessly within any host operating system.
5) I'm loving it already.

I just finished an install of Windows XP on my OSX and within 15 minutes I had a second dock, that had some what familiar looking button that said "Start".

Switching between OSX applications and Windows one like if they were running natively (very impressive). I know there are some virtualization softwares out there already like Crossover and Parallels that arn't really free can also achieve this.

So far so good. Now lets see how it copes with games. I just installed the graphics drivers that come with the virtualbox guest additions.

I will report back on 3D performance. For now give it a shot download it ! and throw away your bloated and complicated virtualization software.