The latest version of VirtualBox is out and it supports a whole slew of bug fixes. In fact, the latest VirtualBox fixes a very specific problem that I’ve been struggling with, which is the fact that iSCSI LUNs greater than 2 Terabytes would not mount (not that I have many LUNs greater than 2TB in my lab but occasionally it does come up). When running on Mac OS X, the following other bug fixes are also included:
- X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code layout (bug #2302)
- Mac OS X hosts: don’t auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen (bug #4866)
- Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don’t interpret mouse wheel events as left click (bug #5049)
- Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under certain conditions
Overall, VirtualBox + OpenStorage continues to become a strong offering from Sun and in my labs at least it’s becoming more and more my weapon of choice for rapid provisioning of test VMs and the management of my lab storage. I’m not saying I would put hacked up versions of Mac OS X Server as a guest OS (on Apple hardware of course;) in VirtualBox into an actual production environment, BTW (nor condoning doing so in all seriousness)… Anyway, VirtualBox 3.1 is workin’ like a charm…
