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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: fixed a GP in SUPR0QueryVTCaps
- VMM: fixed a raw mode bug (5.0.0 RC1 regression)
- xHCI: fixed resuming from a saved state
- USB: improve playback with USB sound devices attached to the emulated OHCI controller
- Audio: provide Linux guests a different AC97 audio codec type so Linux ALSA doesn't mis-detect the link speed (default for new VMs)
- Drag and drop: enabled guest to host support for OS X hosts
- Drag and drop: fixed freezes and crashes in some error cases
- API: OS type description consistency fix
- API: fixed a check which prevented changing the network promiscuous mode at runtime
- API: don't keep OVA files open after import
- API: don't resume a VM on host-resume unless it was previously paused due to a host-suspend
- API: don't lose the saved state and "current state changed" flag during cloning of a VM
- ExtPack: don't fail if the TMP directory contains non-latin1 characters
- Mac OS X hosts: don't crash when upgrading from VBox 4.3.28 which has a bug in handling the CR4.VMXE bit
- Solaris hosts: Solaris 12 installer fix
- X11 Additions: fixed wrong DPI value