VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
Some of the features of VirtualBox are:
- Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don"t have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.
- Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.
Changelog:
- VMM: fixed 64-bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs
- VMM: fixed handling of the sysenter/sysexit machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts
- GUI: added linked clone support
- GUI: fixed error check when changing the VM controller settings (4.1.0 regression)
- GUI: fixed the inclusion of additional information (license, vendor, ...) on OVF export
- GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don"t do a live snapshot
- GUI: fixed immediate crash during start on certain environments due to a library version conflict
- Guest control execution: implemented copying single files from guest to the host (directories and filters not supported yet)
- Guest control execution: limited to serve up to 5 guest processes at a time by default
- Main: return the correct RDP default port fixing settings warnings in the GUI if the remote display was enabled at runtime
- VBoxSVC: made the path comparison OS independent when images are registered
- VBoxSVC: several fixes/performance improvements for cloning of VMs
- Snapshots: fixed "Solid-State drive" flag survival on snapshot creation
- VBoxManage: implemented copyfrom and stat guest control tools to copy files from guest to host and to check for existence of files on the guest
- VBoxManage: fixed extpack install --replace
- VBoxManage: allow to start multiple VMs with startvm
- VBoxManage: experimental support for SATA CD/DVD hotplugging
- Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error affecting Windows guests
- VRDP: fixed a case when the screen was not redrawn correctly
- NAT: changed TCP connection establishment according to Winsock API requirements (Windows hosts only)
- USB: fixed device recognition issues and fixed several device capturing issues (Windows hosts)
- USB: fixed issues with remote filters being applied to local USB devices
- OVA: fixed import of renamed OVA files
- Windows host: fixed icon for .VDI files
- Solaris hosts: fixed a bug preventing parallel usage of multiple host NICs with Crossbow based bridged networking
- Linux hosts: fixed random kernel panics on host suspend / shutdown (4.1.0 regression)
- Guest Additions: keep logged in user count in out-of-memory situations and warn about it
- Solaris Additions: fixed shared folders due to missing symbols in the vboxfs module (4.0.12 / 4.1.0 regression)
- Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with some applications
- Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issues with antivirus software and 64 bit Windows guests
- Windows Vista and 7 guests: WDDM driver fixes and performance enhancements, fixed WinSAT crashes
- Linux Additions: fixed llseek() for Linux kernels 2.6.37 and above
Download: VirtualBox 4.1.2.73507 | 87.5 MB (Open Source)
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