I recently posted about Sun's great virtualization platform and had some comments about the Mac functionality, mostly to do with networking.

Well, those comments are now moot as the newly released 2.0.2 has Host Interface capabilities which means, to the lay person, that I can have a distinct IP assigned to my Virtual Machines and don't have to use port forwarding tricks! Awesome!

The upgrade was painless - download and install - and after I enabled the Host Interface I rebooted my Linux Test Box. It booted with no problems and now lives on the same sub-network as the rest of the computers on my home network - Happy Day!

So run and get the new update for your Mac box and enjoy free virtualization. It's not as slick as the other alternatives - Parallels or VM Fusion - but it's free and works "Good Enough for me...for now..."