VirtualBox 3.0 stable is here!

Last week I wrote about the new beta version of VirtualBox 3.0 with support for SMP. It wasn't really stable. And neither was the second beta.

This week the VirtualBox 3.0 was finally released. It seems to be stable, I haven't seen any bugs or crashes so far.



Unfortunately if your are using Windows XP as guest system you have to reinstall it. Existing installations of Windows XP that you have created using VirtualBox 1.x or 2.x will show only one CPU no matter how you configure your virtual machine. I guess this is rather a problem with Windows than VirtualBox. Windows always have problems if you move your installed system to a different hardware (virtual or real). The linux kernel or any other sane operating system should detect the change from one to two CPUs without any problems.