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 5.0.8 is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- GUI: Mac OS X: Restore green zoom button for VM windows (it was hidden in the previous release to avoid native full-screen issues). For Yosemite and El Capitan this button should work accordingly to the Apple HIG: Full-screen by default, maximize if the user holds the Option key.
- Serial ports: fixed wrong IRQ number for the first serial port in the ACPI tables (5.0.6 regression; bug #14659)
- API: fixed a 5.0 regression in VBoxManage setproperty defaultfrontend (bug #14696)
- VBoxManage/vbox-img: conversion to RAW images could result in a disk image containing all zeroes
- Linux hosts: several fixes for systemd integration in .deb / .rpm packages (e.g. bug #14665). The command for recompiling the host kernel modules was changed to /sbin/vboxconfig
- Linux hosts: make host-only interfaces report operstate UP only when they have VMs attached (bug #14526)
- Mac OS X hosts: fix bpf capture and accounting of traffic on bridged and host-only interfaces (bug #14553)
- Windows guests: fixed 3D rendering issues on high resolution displays
- Windows Additions: fixed problems with 3D acceleration on Windows hosts with Intel HD graphics (bug #14670)
- Linux Additions: fix service starting on Debian systems with systemd installed but not in use (bug #14683)
Download: VirtualBox 5.0.8 | 112.0 MB (Open Source)
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