VirtualBox 2.0

VirtualBox 2.0 has arrived!

What's new in version 2.0:

• 64-bit OS guest support (only on 64-bit hosts, as one might expect)
• New-version notifier
• Guest property information interface
• Framework for collecting performance and resource usage data (metrics)
• Added SATA asynchronous IO (NCQ: Native Command Queuing) when accessing raw disks/partitions (major performance gain)
• and of course, bug fixes.

Even better, on Ubuntu Hardy it can be installed from a package repository now.

The complete install instructions for Ubuntu can be found in my special tutorial about VirtualBox.