VMware Inc - (Freeware)
Sharing data between host computer and virtual machine is very much possible with VMware Player which makes all very easy.
VMware Player is a software program that allows having multiple operating systems on one computer using more virtual machines. It helps to easy operate any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Server or VMware ESX, as well as Microsoft Virtual Server virtual machines or Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines.
With this tool it is possible to create virtual machines and install an operating system without leaving the main system.This program can be very interesting to go from one OS to another to test the compatibility of professional software or for beta testers who can work easily on a given and contained in a virtual machine configuration.
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
* VMM: ?xed excessive logging (bug #1901)
* VMM: AMD-V stability ?xes (bug #1685)
* GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891)
* SATA: ?xed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (bug #1941)
* SATA: ?xed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (bug #1789)
* VBoxHeadless: don’t start the clipboard service (bug #1743)
* VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (bug #1960)
* VBoxManage: ?xes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK ?les, now accepts removable media on Windows (bug #1869)
* VRDP: ?xed communication with MS Remote Resktop Connection on MacOS X (bug #1337)
* VRDP: clipboard ?xes (bug #1410)
* VRDP: ?xed crash during PAM authentication (bug #1953)
* Shared Folders: ?xed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed (Windows guests only, bug #1915)
* Shared Folders: don’t deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (bug #822)
* BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (bug #1957)
* OSE archive: added missing Make?les (bug #1912)
* Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11)
* Linux hosts: one more ?x for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (bug #1962)
* MacOS X hosts: shared folders unicode ?x
* Solaris hosts: ?xed link issue (bug #1840)
* Windows additions: allow to downgrade the package
* Windows additions: ?xed corrupted installer icon on Windows 2000 (bug #1486)
* Windows additions: ?xed bug when creating intermediate directories (bug #1870)
* Windows additions: implemented /xres=, /yres= and /depth= switches for the installer (bug #1990)
* Linux additions: properly unregister the misc device when unloading the kernel module
* Linux additions: ?xed startup order for recent Linux distributions again (e.g. openSUSE 11)
* Linux additions: attempt to ?x the autostart issue of !VBoxClient with Mandriva guests (bug #1699)
* Linux additions: ?xed detection of patched Linux 2.6.18 kernels of RHEL5 / FC6 / CentOS 5.2 (bugs #1899, #1973)
* Linux additions: added new mount ?ags dmode, fmode, umask, dmask and fmask allowing to override the ?le mode (bug #1776)
* Documentation: added a note that jumbo frames don’t work (bug #1877)
* Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (bug #1892)