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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: fixes for certain Intel Atom hosts
- VMM: properly restore the complete FPU state for 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs
- VMM: new I/O-APIC implementation fixing several bugs and improving the performance under certain conditions
- VMM: fixed a potential Linux guest panic on AMD hosts
- VMM: fixed a potential hang with 32-bit EFI guests on Intel CPUs (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)
- GUI: don't allow to start subsequent separate VM instances
- GUI: raised upper limit for video capture screen resolution
- GUI: warn if the VM has less than 128MB VRAM configured and 3D enabled
- Main: when monitoring DNS configuration changes on Windows hosts avoid false positives from competing DHCP renewals. This should fix NAT link flaps when host has multiple DHCP configured interfaces, in particular when the host uses OpnVPN.
- Main: properly display an error message if the VRDE server cannot be enabled at runtime, for example because another service is using the same port
- NAT: Initialize guest address guess for wildcard port-forwarding rules with default guest address
- VGA: fix for a problem which made certain legacy guests crash under certain conditions
- ACPI: properly notify the guest if the ACPI battery state changed
- OVF: fixed import problems for some appliances using an AHCI controller created by 3rd party applications
- SDK: reduced memory usage in the webservice Java bindings
- Windows hosts: fixed performance regresson with SMP guests
- Windows hosts: fixes for the shared clipboard
- Windows hosts: Windows hardening fix
- Windows Additions: fixes to retain the guest display layout when resizing or disabling the guest monitors
- Linux hosts: EL 6.8 fix
- Linux hosts: Linux 4.7 fix
- Linux Additions: Linux 4.7 fixes
- Linux Additions: fix for certain 32-bit guests
- Linux Additions: fixed mouse pointer offset
- Linux Additions: made old X.Org releases work again with kernels 3.11 and later
- Linux Additions: fixed X.Org crash after hard guest reset
- Linux Additions: don't stop the X11 setup if loading the shared folders module fails
- Linux Additions: don't complain if the Drag and Drop service is not available on the host