What's New in 0.6.x?

Native Interface

The VirtualBox gem no longer piggy-backs on top of VBoxManage or XML configuration files. The gem now uses the native interface provided by VirtualBox to communicate. The result of this is a huge speed increase which simply would not have been possible otherwise, and stability across versions. In addition to that, the entire VirtualBox API is now at your disposal. While the gem itself doesn't yet support creating VMs and so on, the API is available for you to do it manually (if you really wanted to!).

Future versions will support more and more of the API.