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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 VERR_IEM_ASPECT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditations with certain Linux guests if KVM paravirtualization is enabled.
- VMM: fixed VERR_VMX_UNABLE_TO_START_VM Guru Meditations under rare conditions.
- GUI: prevent a crash under certain conditions if the VM is terminated very early.
- GUI: fixed certain keyboard capture issues (5.1.10 regression; Mac OS X hosts only;
- GUI: fixed dragging guest windows in seamless mode with the keyboard captured.
- GUI: fixed a problem where the new version detected dialog was covered by the appliance import dialog.
- Storage: fixed NVMe reset processing when doing rmmod nvme; modprobe nvme in a Linux guest.
- Storage: fixed creating a snapshot when the VM is running and an NVMe controller is present.
- Storage: fixed a problem with the LsiLogic SCSI controller where requests could be lost with SMP guests.
- E1000: fixed "cable disconnected" issue.
- E1000: fixed "TX unit hang" issue.
- Parallel ports: fixed port enumeration on Windows host.
- API: don't crash when sanitizing certain VM names.
- Linux hosts: automatically disable asynchronous I/O on Linux 2.6.18 kernels as high I/O load may trigger kernel oopses on these kernels if this feature is enabled.
- Linux hosts / guests: Linux 2.6.28 compile fix.
- Linux hosts: compile Linux 4.9 compile fix.
- Linux Additions: warn the user about a known bug with older Linux guests (e.g. Debian 7) requiring manual work to get 3D working.
- Linux Additions: fix the graphics driver build with Linux 4.10 and later.
- Windows Additions: fixed a crash in the WDDM driver under certain conditions.