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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: adapted to changes in Mac OS X 10.8.2
- VMM: page fusion fixes
- GUI: disable proxy authentication for security reasons
- VRDP: fixed occasional crash during a video playback in the guest
- NAT: fixed a memory leak when disabling the NAT engine
- NAT: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (Windows hosts only)
- Virtio-net: fixed the problem with network statistics counters in Session Information dialog (GUI)
- Storage: fixed a hang during VM reset under certain circumstances
- Storage: fixed hang under rare circumstances
- Storage: fixed hang in case of unaligned requests and async I/O enabled
- Storage: fixed hang with newer VHD images
- VGA: fix for double scan text modes
- VBoxManage: fixed a memory leak when executing and waiting for a guest process
- VBoxManage: fixed converting disks from raw images
- BIOS: certain legacy guests (e.g. Windows 95) didn’t find the boot device after a warm reboot
- BIOS: don’t trash the palette in text modes when setting the border color
- USB: fixed invalid pending request count at the time of service of DEVICE POWER requests (Windows hosts only)
- OVF: fixed importing OVF files cerated by recent VMware products
- Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.7-rc1 fixes
- Linux Additions: support X.Org Server 1.13
- Linux Additions: fixed a hang when the X server was restarted with old guest kernels
- Linux Additions: fixed a VBoxService crash during CPU hot remove
- Windows Additions: fixed Guest screen automatic resize issue for NT4
- Windows Additions: fixed auto-logon installation for Windows 8
- Windows Additions: fixed Guest Additions startup on Windows 2000 guests
- Windows Additions: don’t fail if the shared folders host service is not available