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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:
- VMM: fixed VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED and VERR_RAW_MODE_INVALID_SMP guru meditation due to an invalid reschedule to raw mode
- VMM: fixed PDMCritSectLeave guru meditation under rare circumstances with SMP guests
- VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests
- NAT: fixed a socket leak under certain conditions
- Storage: better sanity check against reading beyond end-of-file
- Audio: fixed a crash in the NUL audio backend (4.1.10 regression)
- HGCM: fixed a crash during savestate under rare circumstances
- Metrics: fixed an occasional crash during VM shutdown if host RAM/VMM metrics are enabled
- VBoxSVC: several locking fixes
- VBoxManage: return the correct error code if controlvm savestate failed
- Guest Additions: VBoxService should not crash on exit (4.1.10 regression)
- Windows Additions: set the correct time stamp when a file is closed
- Windows Additions: better help if the DirectX backups are not properly installed
- Linux Additions: Linux 3.4-rc1 compile fixes