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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 potential host crash triggered by shutting down a VM when another VM was running (only affected 32-bit hosts and 64-bit OS X hosts, 4.1 regression)
- VMM: fixed a potential host crash under a high guest memory pressure (seen with Windows 8 guests)
- VMM: respect RAM preallocation while restoring saved state.
- VMM: fixed handling of task gates if VT-x/AMD-V is disabled
- Storage: fixed audio CD passthrough for certain media players
- USB: don't crash if a USB device is plugged or unplugged when saving or loading the VM state (SMP guests only)
- RTC: fixed a potential corruption of CMOS bank 1
- Mac OS X hosts: installer fixes for Leopard (4.1.20 regression)
- Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxTray