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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:
* GUI: fixed keyboard with XQuartz X server
* Main/Display: fixed a crash with multi-monitors under certain conditions (Mac OS X hosts only)
* Main/Properties: fixed a crash under certain conditions, for example after wakeup from host hibernate
* Settings: don't lose the internal network settings if they are not currently active
* Storage: another incompatibility fix for VHD differencing images with Hyper-V
* VBoxManage: don't read beyond the end of the file specified with export --eulafile
* Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.9-rc0 compile fixes
* Linux Additions: fixed two warnings in the shared folders guest kernel module
* Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService if libdbus is not available
* Windows Additions: fixed upgrading MultiMedia Redirection (MMR) support