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Powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Notonly is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product forenterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freelyavailable as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General PublicLicense (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction; see "innotek" formore about our company.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hostsand supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limitedto Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an evergrowing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms itruns on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company:everyone is encouraged to contribute while innotek ensures the product alwaysmeets professional quality criteria.

On the VirtualBox site, you can find sources, binaries, documentation andother resources for VirtualBox.

Version 3.0 ships with major enhancements such as support for up to 32 CPUsper virtual guest OS, the ability to use DirectX 9 within a Windows guest,support for Windows 7 and much more.