Delivering on Oracle's commitment to open source, Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0 is now available, further enhancing the popular, open source, cross-platform virtualization software.
                    
                      
                        
                         
                      
                    
                    "Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0 
is the third major product release in just over a year, and adds to the 
many new product releases across the Oracle Virtualization product line,
 illustrating the investment and importance that Oracle places on 
providing a comprehensive desktop to datacenter virtualization 
solution," says Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president, Linux and 
Virtualization Engineering, Oracle.  "With an improved user interface 
and added virtual hardware support, customers will find Oracle VM 
VirtualBox 4.0 provides a richer user experience."
                    Part of Oracle's comprehensive portfolio of virtualization solutions,
 Oracle VM VirtualBox enables desktop or laptop computers to run 
multiple guest operating systems simultaneously, allowing users to get 
the most flexibility and utilization out of their PCs, and supports a 
variety of host operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, most 
popular flavors of Linux (including Oracle Linux), and Oracle Solaris.
                    Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0 
delivers increased capacity and throughput to handle greater workloads, 
enhanced virtual appliance capabilities, and significant usability 
improvements. Support for the latest in virtual hardware, including 
chipsets supporting PCI Express, further extends the value delivered to 
customers, partners, and developers.
                    Highlights of Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0 include
                    New Open Architecture
 - Oracle and community developers can now create extensions that 
customize Oracle VM VirtualBox and add features not previously 
available.Enhanced Usability
 - A new scalable display mode enables users to view more virtual 
displays on their existing monitors. Improvements to VM management, 
including visual VM previews, an optional attributes display, and easy 
launch shortcut creation enables administrators and power users to 
customize the interface to make it as simple or as comprehensive as 
required.Increased Capacity and Throughput
 - A new asynchronous I/O model for networked (iSCSI) and local storage 
delivers significant storage related performance improvements, while new
 optimizations allow larger datacenter-class workloads, such as Oracle's
 middeware, to be run on 32-bit Windows hosts for testing and demo 
purposes. Powerful Virtual Appliance Sharing Capabilities
 - Enhanced support for standards-compliant OVF appliances and added 
support for OVA format descriptors.  All information about a VM may be 
stored in a single folder to facilitate easier direct sharing among VMs.
 Support for Latest Virtual Hardware
 - A new, modern virtual chipset supporting PCI Express and other 
hardware enhancements including high-definition audio devices helps 
ensure support for the most demanding virtual workloads.