VirtualBox 1.6.6

Oracle - (Open Source)

VirtualBox is an easy and elegant solution for those who want to control a computer from another computer.

VirtualBox offers virtualize your operating system (OS) guests on a host machine. Called hypervisor, the application supports Windows OS X, Linux, Mac, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc.. as host, Mac OS X missing the call as a guest.

It also includes a remote access via HTTP protocol, convenient for demonstrations on a clean system.Â The ability to manage multiple states of the system is particularly interesting and its interface is very simple.

Virtualization solutions allow installing an operating system on a virtual machine using the resources of the host PC , thus enjoying very good performance. In the genre, several solutions are known for their ease of use, such as VMware Workstation , Parallels Desktop or Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1.

A virtual machine is a useful way to use two operating systems simultaneously and harmless to the host computer. There is the possibility to install Linux on a virtual machine on Windows and vice versa .

Title:: VirtualBox 1.6.6
File Size:: 22.4 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 01 Sep 2008
Publisher:: Oracle
Homepage:: http://www.oracle.com
MD5 Checksum:: 1BCA688BF64B76D0814E2BDF7F9BF465

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: donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢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: donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢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 donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t work (bug #1877)
* Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (bug #1892)