Sun Microsystems today annouced the release of Virtualbox 2.2. According to the changelog this new version has 10 new features and over 30 bug fix or solutions added. Virtualbox 2.2 is said to be the world most favourite open source hypervisor with over 11 million downloads.

Jim McHugh, vice president for datacentre software marketing at Sun, said: “VirtualBox has always been a fantastic tool for developers to create multiple virtual machines, network them together and deploy them using nearly any operating system.”

Sun Microsystems announced yesterday that it acquired cloud computing service provider Q-layer. Q-layer is a cloud computing company that automate the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. The acquisition is said to said to be a key move by Sun as it bolster it cloud computing offering. The company will become a part of the Sun’s Cloud Computing business unit which develops and integrates cloud computing technologies, architectures and services.

A month after releasing VirtualBox 2.0.6, version 2.1.0 is now available for download.