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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 .
- GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against wrong host time
- NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network
- NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on Windows hosts
- Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare conditions if no Guest Additions are installed
- Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the change permanent
- VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests
- SDK: fixed the VirtualBox.tlb file
- rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again
- USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions
- iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts
- Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP
- Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts