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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 .
- VMM: emulation fix for the ENTER instruction under certain conditions; fixes Solaris 10 guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)
- VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
- NAT/NAT Network: fix connection drops when the host's DHCP lease was renewed
- NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the DNS host configuration
- PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts
- Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests
- Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio backend
- VBoxManage: when executing the controlvm command take care that the corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently
- Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll on 32-bit hosts
- Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes
- OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration
- X11 Additions: fixed a sporadic failure to deactivate virtual screens