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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: the USB filter settings dialog should allow to specify the USB revision in hexadecimal format.
- GUI: fixed crash on certain hosts when pressing certain key combinations (Windows hosts only;
- GUI: fixed issue with updating the available-geometry on host-screen work-area resize.
- GUI: don't crash / hang on certain environments if accessibility support is enabled.
- GUI: fixed various issues in Unscaled HiDPI Output mode.
- GUI: extend the VM Input menu with Print Screen-related actions.
- GUI: improved handling of inserting the Guest Additions ISO image by trying all available optical drives rather than only the first one and by not asking the user if he wants to force un-mounting (which doesn't work in most cases anyway).
- API: default to RTC using UTC for Solaris 11 guests.
- Settings: be less restrictive when reading a VM configuration containing a host-only adapter without an interface name.
- Storage: fixed resizing VDI images resulting in an un-bootable image under certain circumstances.
- NAT: fixed several 5.1.8 regressions on Mac OS X and Windows hosts.
- Audio: fixed a few 5.1.x regressions by using the audio code from 5.0.x until the audio overhaul is completed.
- VBoxManage: fixed documentation of the storage ctl command.
- Build system: another fix for building VirtualBox on systems which default to Python 3.
- Windows hosts: hardening fix for Windows 10 build 14971.
- Windows Additions: properly start the VirtualBox guest services even if the guest user name contains special characters.
- Solaris Additions: fixed preempt mouse notification callback being executed under a spin lock for Solaris guests.
- Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.9 fixes.
- Linux Additions: fixed Linux kernel module override rule.