VirtualBox application is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction; see "InnoTek" for more about our company.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows and Linux 32-bit hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.
VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while InnoTek ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.
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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 VERR_ACCESS_DENIED with certain guests (bugs #7589, #8247)
· VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VERR_PAGE_TABLE_NOT_PRESENT with Ubuntu 32-bit guests with nested paging enabled on AMD CPUs (bug #10183)
· VMM: preserve segment limits and attributes when switching to unreal mode required for some legacy guests to work properly (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution only; bug #9941)
· VMM: fixed a VM hang after a resume from pause / savestate with SMP guests in rare cases
· 3D Support: several fixes for the Windows WDDM video driver crash
· NAT: fixed a crash on attempt to process ICMP datagram under some circumstances (bug #10527)
· Host-only Networking: lifted the maximal number of interfaces to 128 on Linux and Mac OS X hosts (there is no such limitation for Solaris and Windows hosts)
· EFI: fixed wrong SEC/PEI Core entry point calculation (bug #10531)
· VRDP: fixed a display update problem (bug #10503)
· Main: set the proper VM state if savestate failed for some reason (bug #6189)
· Main: more useful error message if a medium is inaccessible
· VBoxManage: fixed controlvm savestate if the VM is already paused
· Mac OS X hosts: addressed issues running on Mountain Lion Preview 3 (bug #10267)
· Linux hosts: Linux 3.4 compile fixes
· Linux hosts: fixed wrong help path in some rpm-based packages (bug #10418)
· Guest Additions: fixed handling of custom environment variables during VBoxManage guestcontrol execute (bug #10581)
· Windows Additions: fixed guest driver crash of VBoxSF in certain cases (4.1.10 regression, bug #10408)
· Windows Additions: don't load the WDDM driver if 3D support is not available for Windows 8 guests to keep the guest maintainable in that case (still better to miss some features than providing a blank screen)
· Solaris Additions: added support for X.org Server 1.11 and 1.12
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