Virtualbox 3.0 for Linux Released

Sun’s own virtalmachine, Virtualbox has become a little older and matured! Its turned to version 3.0 now! It is available for Windows,Linux,Intel Macs and Sun Solaris.
Since 2.24 virtualbox supports OpenGL 2.0. A lot of improvements have been made in this release. A lot of bugfixes have been made as well. Here’s a list of a few of the improvements and new features.

Added DirectX9 support for playing games.
Support for Linux kernel 2.6.31
· Support for Guest Additions in Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
· Fixed CentOS 64-bit support
· Better performance for PAE guests on Linux kernel 2.6.29 or higher
· Better network I/O
· Revamped settings dialog;
· Added a minimalistic toolbar for seamless and fullscreen modes
· Ability to create or remove more than one host-only network adapter
· Lots of fixes for 3D support
· Windows 7 Remote Desktop Protocol client support
· Fixed TX checksum offloading for Linux kernel 2.16.8 or higher
· Time synchronization handler provided by the new vboxadd-service module;
· Added guest properties, which offers information about logged in users, operating system or network
· Added USB high-speed isochronous endpoints support, with read-ahead buffering for input endpoints;
· Fixed USB dongles issues
· New registration dialog that uses Sun Online accounts
· Various clipboard fixes

for detailed changelog visit the virtualbox website.

To download virtualbox 3.0 for ur desired OS go here

For Ubuntu Users who might want to add the repository for automatic future upgrades use the following repos

For Jaunty(9.04)/Linux Mint 7/Super 0S/Ultimate edition 2.2
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jaunty non-free

For Intrepix (8.10)/Linux Mint 6/ Ultimate edition 2.0 & 2.1
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free

For Hardy LTS(8.04)/Linux Mint 5 LTS/Ultimate edition 1.8 & 1.9
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy non-free

add the key by typing the following in the terminal

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add –

To install VirtualBox, type the following in the terminal

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.0

or install virtualbox-3.0 from the synaptic package manager

Note: Ubuntu users might want to install the dkms package (not available on Debian) to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next apt-get upgrade.