VirtualBox 4.0.6.71416

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 4.0.6.71416
File Size:: 79.4 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / XP64 / Vista64 / Windows7 64 / Windows8 / Windows8 64
Language:: en-us
License:: Open Source
Date Added:: 26 Apr 2011
Publisher:: Oracle
Homepage:: http://www.oracle.com
MD5 Checksum:: 6A51D872FF54D7E9DFE5307450F824FE

* Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode
* Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more than 16 cores
* Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in 64-bit mode
* GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any host key combination
* VBoxManage: added controlvm screenshotpng subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format
* VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)
* NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in Ethernet header and in ARP requests
* Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting
* E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests
* SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM;
* Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with asynchronous I/O enabled
* Floppy: several improvement
* HPET: another fix for time jumps
* USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated (Windows hosts only)
* 3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest window
* 3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15
* Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot
* Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one host folder is inaccessible
* Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before building kernel modules
* Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10
* Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes