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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: show actual VM uptime in the session information window
- Audio: re-enabled speakers for Mac OS X guests
- Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions
- USB: fixed a hang under certain conditions
- USB: fixed a hanging guest under certain conditions
- PIIX4: implemented dummy SMBus controller to prevent annoying Linux kernel warnings about uninitialized SMBus base address
- NVMe: several fixes to improve stability, fixed a crash while saving a VM state
- VMDK: Fixed an issue creating fixed size images with certain sizes and the Split2G option enabled
- VHDX: fixed cloning images with VBoxManage clonehd
- Storage: Fixed broken bandwidth limitation when the limit is very low
- EFI: fixed sending debug messages in the EFI firmware if a serial port is enabled
- OVF: when importing appliances, make sure that the version of the embedded VirtualBox-specific settings is processed, to get the default settings handling right
- VBoxManage: Don't try to set the medium type if there is no change
- Linux installer: fixed some scripting issues
- Linux installer: fixed a path issue on certain Linux distributions
- Windows hosts: fixed corrupted mouse pointers with some Linux and Solaris guests
- Linux Additions: made the video driver work on 32-bit guests with large video memory sizes
- Linux Additions: made the video driver work on kernel 4.7 and later
- Linux Additions: converted a failure message to an informational one when drivers could not be stopped during upgrade
- Linux Additions: made the video driver work around an X server bug which cause screen refresh to stop
- Windows Additions: auto-resizing fixes for Windows 10 guests
- Windows Additions: fixed VBoxTray problems with Windows 2000