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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: several fixes
- GUI: fixed screenshot if the VM is started in separate mode
- GUI: fixed issue with double-click/opening registered file types (.vbox and .vbox-extpack) on Mac OS X
- GUI: fixed a bug which made it impossible close some error/warning messages using the close button
- GUI: weakened the control over the VM window behavior allowing to resize it across multiple screens and to use in Snap Assist techniques
- GUI: jump to the second tab of the session information window
- GUI: fix for Alt-Tab
- Storage: fixed creating fixed size VHD images
- Storage: fixed a hang during power off if the VM was suspended before and a NVMe controller is configured
- USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions
- Audio: make AC'97 volume control work again
- Audio: fixed rare VM hangs when using AC'97 emulation
- Audio: SB16 fixes
- EFI: fixed access to devices attached to SATA port 2 and higher
- OVA: fix for checking certain signatures
- OVA: fixed MAC address generation for appliances created by VirtualBox
- API: fixed audio settings handling for older config files
- API: fixed truncation of USB product/vendor IDs on Linux hosts
- API: fixed VRDP with authentication
- API: don't crash if there is no graphics controller configured
- Linux hosts: fixed EL5 builds
- non-Windows hosts: fixed a crash during shutdown under rare circumstances
- Linux Additions: fixed SELinux issue which prevented certain Linux guests to work in 3D mode
- User Manual: updates