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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 a crash under rare circumstances for VMs running without hardware virtualization
* VMM: fixed a code analysis bug for certain displacement instructions for VMs running without hardware virtualization
* VMM: fixed an interpretion bug for TPR read instructions under rare conditions
* Snapshots: fixed a crash when restoring an old snapshot when powering off a VM
* VBoxSVC: be more tolerant against environment variables with strange encodings
* VGA: fixed wrong access check which might cause a crash under certain conditions
* NAT: final fix for crashes under rare conditions
* Virtio-net: fixed the problem with receiving of GSO packets in Windows XP guests causing packet loss in host-to-VM transfers
* HPET: several fixes
* Clipboard: disable the clipboard by default for new VMs
* BIOS: the PCI BIOS was not properly detected with the chipset type set to ICH9
* Mac OS X hosts: adaptions to Mountain Lion
* Linux Installer: fixes for Gentoo Linux
* Linux guests: fixed mouse integration on Fedora 17 guests
* Linux Additions: compile fixes for RHEL/CentOS 6.3
* Linux Additions: compile fixes for Linux 3.5-rc1 and Linux 3.6-rc1
* Solaris host: fixed a guru meditation while allocating large pages
* Solaris host: fixed possible kernel panics while freeing memory
* Solaris Installer: fixed missing icon for menu and desktop shortcuts