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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. 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 .
# The following items were fixed and/or added:
* VRDP: fixed screen corruption
* VRDP: fixed screen freeze
* ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with certain guests
* NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed ICMP requests (bug #9371)
* Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest metrics collection upon VM destruction
* Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving the fullscreen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled preview window in the GUI for example
* VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)
* VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)
* OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare circumstances
* Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when bridged to wireless interface (bug #9648)
* Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest users and stale sessions
* Linux guests: fixes for Linux 3.2