VirtualBox 3.1.2.56127

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 3.1.2.56127
File Size:: 71.5 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 17 Dec 2009
Publisher:: Oracle
Homepage:: http://www.oracle.com
MD5 Checksum:: 1BDEA668BB186ABF1714AD10B5A09233

# The following items were fixed and/or added:

* VMM: fixed SMP stability regression
* USB: fixed USB related host crashes on 64 bits Windows hosts (#5237)
* Main: wrong default HWVirtExExclusive value for new VMs (bug #5664)
* Main: DVD passthrough setting was lost (bug #5681)
* VBoxManage: iSCSI disks do not support adding a comment (bug #4460)
* VBoxManage: added missing --cpus and --memory options to OVF --import
* GUI: fixed VBox URL in update dialog for German and Dutch languages
* GUI: NLS updates
* OVF: fixed export of non standard storage controller names (bug #5643)
* Solaris hosts: several USB fixes (including support for Apple iPhone)
* Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for the 3D support
* Mac OS X hosts: re-enabled CMD+Key combinations, even if the Host-Key isn't CMD (bug #5684)
* Mac OS X hosts: fixed to fast scrolling if the mouse wheel is used inside the guest (bug #5672)
* Mac OS X hosts: dock & menubar don't disappear in fullscreen when the VM is not running on the primary display (bug #1762)
* Mac OS X hosts: added an option for enabling "Auto show Dock & Menubar in fullscreen" (bug #5636)
* Windows host installer: fixed starting VBox with wrong privileges right after installation (bug #4162)
* Host interface and host-only networking: prevent driver from unloading while a VM is still active (Windows host only)
* Host-only networking: fixed host-only interface creation (Windows host only) (bug #5708)
* Virtio-net: don't crash without an attached network
* Virtio-net: fixed the issue with intermittent network in VM with several virtual CPU cores.
* NAT: fixed port-forwarding regressions (bug #5666)
* NAT: fixed crash under certain conditions (bug #5427)
* NAT: fixed resolving of names containing a slash or underscore when using the host resolver DNS proxy (bug #5698)
* ATA: fixed sporadic crash when resuming after a VM was forcefully paused (e.g. due to iSCSI target being unavailable)
* SATA: fixed raw vmdk disks (bug #5724)
* Linux guests: increased the default memory for Redhat and Fedora guests
* Linux Guest Additions: fixed installation on RHEL 3.9 guests and on some 64bit guests
* Linux Guest Additions: prevent SELinux warnings concerning text relocations in VBoxOGL.so (bug #5690)
* X11 guests: fixed mouse support for some Xorg 1.4 guests (openSUSE 11.0)
* X11 guests: fixed xorg.conf modification for some older Xorg releases (openSUSE 11.1)
* Windows guests: fixed some VBoxService shutdown issues
* Windows guests: fixed VBoxVideo spinlock issues on NT4
* Windows Guest Additions: fixed uninstallation issues of NT4
* Shared folders: fixed resolving of symlink target (bug #5631)
* 2D Video acceleration: delay loading of OpenGL dlls for Windows hosts to avoid GUI crashes on misconfigured systems
* 2D Video acceleration: fixed issues with video picture not displayed on playback