An anonymous reader shares a report: September has been a big month for desktop hypervisors, with the field’s big players all delivering significant updates. Oracle delivered VirtualBox version 7.1, billed as a major upgrade thanks to its implementation of a UI with a “modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality.”
[…] Parallels also released a desktop hypervisor update last week. Version 20 of the eponymous tool now offers a VM that’s packed with tools developers may find handy as they work on generative AI applications. Among those tools are the Docker community edition, lmutils, the OpenCV computer vision library, and the Ollama chatbot interface for AI models. […] The other big player in desktop hypervisors is VMware, with its Fusion and Workstation products for macOS and Windows respectively. Both were recently updated.
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