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 4.3.26 is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against wrong host time (bug #13955)
- NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network (4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915, #13918)
- NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on Windows hosts
- Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression; bug #13935)
- Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the change permanent (bugs #9858, #12885)
- VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests
- SDK: fixed the VirtualBox.tlb file (4.3.20 regression; bug #13943)
- rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again (4.3.14 regression; bug #13901)
- USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions
- iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)
- Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #13951)
- Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835)
Download: VirtualBox 4.3.26 | 106.0 MB (Open Source)
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