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Silvan Scherrer has started a new project to port the latest VirtualBox to OS/2 and eComStation and provide a current, usable virtualization solution. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

For a general introduction into VirtualBox, see:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox/

Early versions of VirtualBox had already been ported to OS/2 but these efforts had been suspended due to technical problems and lack of the Qt 4 library for the GUI. With the Qt 4 library and the lastest GCC compiler available, basic obstacles have been removed and a first success can already be reported: The support driver works and a DOS guest can be booted.

A team of several developers will work on the project and funding will be provided by the OS/2 and eComStation community. If you would like to contribute to this port, you are welcome to buy sponsoring units at the Mensys online shop at:

http://www.mensys.com/shop/VirtualBoxPorting

For information about the project and its status, see:

http://svn.netlabs.org/vbox