VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. 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.
VirtualBox 5.0.18 is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch in consistence with default-behavior (bug #15226)
- GUI: fixed the View menu / Full-screen Mode behavior on Mac OS X El Capitan
- GUI: fixed a test which allowed to encrypt a hard disk with an empty password
- GUI: fixed a crash under certain conditions during VM shutdown
- GUI: fixed the size of the VM list scrollbar in the VM selector when entering a group
- PC speaker passthrough: fixes (Linux hosts only; bug #627)
- Drag and drop: several fixes
- SATA: fixed hotplug flag handling when EFI is used
- Storage: fixed handling of encrypted disk images with SCSI controllers (bug #14812)
- Storage: fixed possible crash with Solaris 7 if the BusLogic SCSI controller is used
- USB: properly purge non-ASCII characters from USB strings (bugs #8801, #15222)
- NAT Network: fixed 100% CPU load in VBoxNetNAT on Mac OS X under certain circumstances (bug #15223)
- ACPI: fixed ACPI tables to make the display color management settings available again for older Windows versions (4.3.22 regression)
- Guest Control: fixed VBoxManage copyfrom command (bug #14336)
- Snapshots: fixed several problems when removing older snapshots (bug #15206)
- VBoxManage: fixed --verbose output of the guestcontrol command
- Windows hosts: hardening fixes required for recent Windows 10 insider builds (bugs #15245, #15296)
- Windows hosts: fixed support of jumbo frames in with bridged networking (5.0.16 regression; bug #15209)
- Windows hosts: don"t prevent receiving multicast traffic if host-only adapters are installed (bug #8698)
- Linux hosts: added support for the new naming scheme of NVME disks when creating raw disks
- Solaris hosts / guests: properly sign the kernel modules (bug #12608)
- Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.5 fixes (bug #15251)
- Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.6 fixes (bug #15298)
- Linux Additions: added a kernel graphics driver to support graphics when X.Org does not have root rights (bug #14732)
- Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed several issues causing Linux/Solatis guests using software rendering when 3D acceleration is available
- Windows Additions: fixed a hang with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM drivers if Aero is disabled
Download: VirtualBox 5.0.18 | 108.0 MB (Open Source)
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