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VirtualBox Development At a Standstill

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-with-a-virtual-bang,-but-a-virtual-whimper dept.

jones_supa writes: Phoronix notes how it has been a long time since last hearing of any major innovations or improvements to VirtualBox, the virtual machine software managed by Oracle. This comes while VMware is improving its products on all platforms, and KVM, Xen, Virt-Manager, and related Linux virtualization technologies continue to advance as well. Is there any hope left for a revitalized VirtualBox? It has been said that there are only four paid developers left on the VirtualBox team at the company, which is not enough manpower to significantly advance such a complex piece of software. The v4.3 series has been receiving some maintenance updates during the last two years, but that's about it.

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  1. Re:VMWare is worth the money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The problem he had was trying to run it on a mac. That's also why he has such a desperate need for a VM in the first place...