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Sun Microsystems has announced the first beta release of VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1. The major additions to VirtualBox 3.0 so far is guest SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) support for up to 32 virtual CPUs, Windows guests now support Direct3D 8/9 applications and games, and there is now OpenGL 2.0 support for Windows, Linux, and Solaris guests.

Beyond these major changes that have worked their way into the first VirtualBox 3.0 release, there is also various bug fixes that have went in since the VirtualBox 2.x branch too. The VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1 release announcement can be read on the project's mailing list.

Download VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1

[via phoronix.com]