Oracle VirtualBox is an application that provides a family of powerful x86 virtualization tools designed for desktop, server and embedded use.
VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application that can be on many systems, including Linux, Solaris, Mac OS, as well as all Windows hosts.
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Here are some key features of "Oracle VM VirtualBox":
· Portability
· No hardware virtualization required
· Guest Additions
· Great hardware support
· USB device support
· Hardware compatibility
· Full ACPI support
· Multiscreen resolutions
· Built-in iSCSI support
· PXE Network boot
· Multigeneration branched snapshots
· Remote machine display
· Extensible RDP authentication
· USB over RDP
Requirements:
· You will need to install some additional libraries on your Linux system in order to run VirtualBox - in particular, you will need libxalan-c, libxerces-c and version 5 of libstdc . How to install these will depend on the Linux distribution you are using.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation on putting Linux guest CPU online if nested paging is disabled
· VMM: invalidate TLB entries even for non-present pages
· GUI: Multi-screen support: fixed a crash on visual-mode change
· GUI: Multi-screen support: disabled guest-screens should now remain disabled on visual-mode change
· GUI: Multi-screen support: handle host/guest screen plugging/unplugging in different visual-modes
· GUI: Multi-screen support: seamless mode: fixed a bug when empty seamless screens were represented by fullscreen windows
· GUI: Multi-screen support: each machine window in multi-screen configuration should have correct menu-bar now (Mac OS X hosts)
· GUI: Multi-screen support: machine window View menu should have correct content in seamless/fullscreen mode now (Mac OS X hosts)
· GUI: VM manager: vertical scroll-bars should be now updated on content/window resize
· GUI: VM settings: fixed crash on machine state-change event
· GUI: don't show warnings about enabled or disabled mouse integration if the VM was restored from a saved state
· Virtio-net: properly announce that the guest has to handle partial TCP checksums (bug #9380)
· Storage: Fixed incorrect alignment of VDI images causing disk size changes when using snapshots (bug #11597)
· Audio: fixed broken ALSA & PulseAudio on some Linux hosts due to invalid symbol resolution (bug #11615)
· PS/2 keyboard: re-apply keyboard repeat delay and rate after a VM was restored from a saved state (bug #10933)
· BIOS: updated DMI processor information table (type 4): corrected L1 & L2 cache table handles
· Timekeeping: fix several issues which can lead to incorrect time, Solaris guests sporadically showed time going briefly back to Jan 1 1970
· Main/Metrics: disk metrics are collected properly when software RAID, symbolic links or rootfs are used on Linux hosts
· VBoxManage: don't stay paused after a snapshot was created and the VM was running before
· VBoxManage: introduced controlvm nicpromisc (bug #11423)
· VBoxManage: don't crash on controlvm guestmemoryballoon if the VM isn't running (bug #11639)
· VBoxHeadless: don't filter guest property events as this would affect all clients (bug #11644)
· Guest control: prevent double CR in the output generated by guest commands and do NLS conversion
· Linux hosts / guests: fixed build errors on Linux 3.5 and newer kernels if the CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS config option is enabled (bug #11664)
· Linux Additions: handle fall-back to VESA driver on RedHat-based guests if vboxvideo cannot be loaded
· Linux Additions: RHEL/OEL/CentOS 6.4 compile fix (bug #11586)
· Linux Additions: Debian Linux kernel 3.2.0-4 (3.2.39) compile fix (bug #11634)
· Linux Additions: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using LightDM as the display manager
· Windows Additions: Support for multimonitor. Dynamic enable/disable of secondary virtual monitors. Support for XPDM/WDDM based guests
· X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.14 (bug #11609)
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