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Nowadays, when everything can be virtualized, it is not a surprise that developers created a virtual machine in Java. The project name is JPC. By using this program you can run the operating system on a virtual machine running inside the Java virtual machine. Therefore, it is a double virtualization that gives a very high level of isolation.

VirtualBox is a free program that enables virtualization on workstations. The new stable version 3.0 has been released lately. What's new in the third version? First of all, developers implemented support for the symmetrical processing (SMP) with 32 virtual processors. Also, support for 3D acceleration has been improved – Direct3D 8/9 in case of virtual machines with Windows and OpenGL 2.0 for machines with Windows, Linux and Solaris.

One of the biggest obstacle on the way to migration to the new operating system is software incompatibility. It seems that Microsoft is preparing a solution to this problem. Windows 7 will be equipped with a function that is called "Windows XP Mode".

Sun has released the new version of virtualization software - VirtualBox. 2.2. The new version brings support for Open Virtualization Format, which is part of the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force). Now, you can not only create virtual machines but also export them from the development to production environement.

Parallels, the leader in the market of virtualization software for Mac OS X, has removed several serious bugs in the latest version of Parallels Server (build 2217). Parallels Server is a professional tool for virtualization designed for the use on Xserve servers. It allows you to use the leading server software as Microsoft Exchange, Oracle Database, Microsoft SharePoint. In the previous version, bugs caused the unexpected program termination.